Pudu LRT station is an elevated
rapid transit station situated in
Pudu,
Kuala Lumpur,
Malaysia. The station serves a single line that forms part of a common
Ampang Line (formerly known as STAR, and the Ampang and Sri Petaling Lines) route shared by both the
Ampang-Sentul Timur line and
Sri Petaling-Sentul Timur line. The station was opened on December 16, 1996, as part of the first phase of the STAR system's opening, alongside 13 adjoining stations along the
Sultan Ismail-
Ampang route.
Location
The Pudu station is located on the western fringe of the incorporated town of
Pudu, along
Jalan Sarawak, an alleyway northeast from the station, behind of a row of
shophouses afront
Jalan Pudu, a main thoroughfare in Pudu. The station is also accessible via
Jalan San Peng from the southwest and
Jalan Sungai Besi from the southeast.
As parts of the Ampang Line route reused the now defunct
Federated Malay States Railways (FMSR) and
Malayan Railways (KTM) line between Kuala Lumpur,
Ampang and
Salak Selatan, the Pudu station serves as an unofficial replacement of an older Pudoh station that was formerly located in roughly the same location and demolished outright during the 1990s as the a STAR line was constructed in place of the railway tracks. The station is one of three Ampang Line stations serving the Pudu area, the other being the
Hang Tuah station and
Chan Sow Lin station.
Design
While the original KTM railway line that the Ampang Line route was based on was laid out on street...
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