Kuala Lumpur Sentral station

KL Sentral is the largest railway station in Malaysia, and also in Southeast Asia from 2001 to 2021, before Krung Thep Aphiwat Central Terminal in Bangkok, Thailand was completed.KL Sentral refers to the entire 290,000 square metres (3,100,000 sq ft) of development built on the former Keretapi Tanah Melayu marshalling yard in Brickfields.The development includes the transport hub, hotels, office towers, condominiums and shopping malls and was expected to be completed in 2015.Kuala Lumpur Sentral station stands on the site of the former Malayan Railway's marshalling yard called the Central Railroad Repair Shops.In 1994, with the objective of enhancing Kuala Lumpur city's public transport, the Government of Malaysia awarded a contract to a consortium to transform 72 acres (290,000 m2) at the old railway marshalling yard into a modern transit hub within a self-contained urban development.[2] In early August 2019, KL Sentral was one of the locations affected by two online bomb threats posted on Twitter; the other being the Russian Embassy in Kuala Lumpur.The partnership is part of a five-year station naming rights agreement between Prasarana Integrated Development and redONE, the largest mobile virtual network operator (MVNO) in ASEAN.Tower C was built by Quill Realty Sdn Bhd and sold to Suruhanjaya Syarikat Malaysia (SSM) for its corporate headquarters.Standing on 9.3 acres (38,000 m2), the main building has a gross floor area of 500,000 square feet (46,000 m2) and the specifications were based on passenger projections up to the year 2020, which was when Malaysia aspired to be a fully developed nation.[10] KL City Air Terminal is located at the eastern and western ends of the station building and was opened on 14 April 2002 together with the 6 KLIA Ekspres.Designed as an "Airport Terminal in the City", KL CAT is an IATA-indexed station and is assigned with the IATA code XKL.As of October 2023, passengers flying Malaysia Airlines and Batik Air can check-in their baggage at KL CAT before boarding a KLIA Ekspres train to Kuala Lumpur International Airport.The completion of the overhead bridge now enables customers to travel between KL Sentral and the monorail station safely and conveniently.[11][12][13] The station uses the Spanish solution, having one rail line with a platform on each side, for passengers embarking and disembarking the train separately.[14] Lot D consists of two 55-storey residential towers called The Sentral Residences that overlooks the Lake Gardens and the city.