The Alor Setar railway station is a Malaysian railway station located at and named after the state capital city of Alor Setar, Kedah.The old, single-platform station, with its distinctive clock tower, was closed 29 January 2013 to facilitate the construction of a new modern station under the Ipoh–Padang Besar electrification and double-tracking project.[2] The old station has been conserved and transformed into the Railway Tavern restaurant and bar.[3] In 2020, a century-old Hindu shrine, Sri Madurai Veeran, situated at the entrance of the station, was demolished to make way for a road project despite local objections.[4][5] It was built by Indian labourers who laid tracks from Butterworth to the northern frontier in the early 20th century.