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Sunway Monorail
Overview
LocaleSunway City, Subang Jaya, Selangor, Malaysia
Transit typestraddle-beam monorail (Steel-tracked)
Number of lines1 loop line; 1 branch line
Number of stations3
Operation
Began operation2000
Ended operationDefunct as of 2007
Number of vehicles2 trains
Technical
System length3.2 km

The Sunway Monorail, alternately SunTrek 2000 was a Malaysian monorail system that operated within the vicinity of Sunway City, Subang Jaya, Selangor, west from the country's capital city, Kuala Lumpur. The system included a single looped line with three stations around Sunway City, and was the second monorail system to operate in Malaysia following the Genting Monorail, and the first public monorail in the country, opening in 2000 and predating the launch of the Kuala Lumpur Monorail by three years.

Line and rolling stock

The monorail primarily ran along a 3 km steel-tracked loop system surrounding the Sunway Lagoon water theme park, stopping at three key locations on the northern and western side of the loop:

  • Sunway Pyramid East monorail station - One station east of the Sunway Pyramid shopping centre.
  • Sunway Pyramid west monorail station - One station west of Sunway Pyramid, currently within the site of the shopping Centre's 2006-2007 extension. Now has been refurbished to Johnny Rockets a franchise hamburger restaurants.
  • Sunway College monorail station - One station east former name of Sunway University and a Malaysian campus of Monash University, both of which are situated side-by-side.
  • Additionally, a branch line extends 600m west towards the monorail system's depot from the loop.

The monorail system operated with two five-car SL5 trains in its rolling stock; the trains produced by Severn-Lamb, a British locomotive manufacturer. The total cost of the loop was an estimated US$10 million.

Expansions, closure and potential revivals

The Sunway Monorail system was intended to support additional extensions in the following years. Plans were made to construct two addition loops with interconnecting stations at all three loops, but none of the plans were realised.

The system ceased operation within years following its opening. Despite its closure, portions of tracks along the line, as well as its depot, remain.

In 2007 there were unconfirmed reports on plans regarding a potential revival of the monorail link, additionally connecting to the KTM Komuter's Setia Jaya station (proposed to be renamed Sunway station).

The system was later on modified as a walkway connecting various universities around the area, as well as being incorporated into the currently in operation BRT Sunway Line, which connects Port Klang Line's Setia Jaya station to the Kelana Jaya Line's USJ7 station via Bandar Sunway.

Gallery

  • Photo showing the defunct 3 km steel-tracked loop monorail system. Photo showing the defunct 3 km steel-tracked loop monorail system.
  • A view of the walkway from the BRT as it is being deconstructed, showing the remains of the Sunway Monorail. A view of the walkway from the BRT as it is being deconstructed, showing the remains of the Sunway Monorail.

See also

References

  1. "From wasteland to wonderland". New Straits Times. Retrieved 28 February 2015.

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