Rantau Panjang railway station
Rantau Panjang | |||||||||||
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| KTM Intercity inter-city rail station | |||||||||||
 View of Rantau Panjang railway station's tracks, platform and signboard | |||||||||||
| Location | Rantau Panjang, Kelantan, Malaysia. | ||||||||||
| Coordinates | 6°01′12″N 101°58′33″E / 6.02000°N 101.97583°E | ||||||||||
| Owned by | Keretapi Tanah Melayu | ||||||||||
| Line(s) | Rantau Panjang Line | ||||||||||
| Platforms | 1 side platform | ||||||||||
| Tracks | 2 | ||||||||||
| Construction | |||||||||||
| Parking | Available. | ||||||||||
| History | |||||||||||
| Opened | 1921 | ||||||||||
| Services | |||||||||||
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The Rantau Panjang railway station is a disused Malaysian railway station located near Jalan Besar and named after the town of Rantau Panjang, Kelantan. Opened in 1921, it is currently disused after railcar drivers from State Railway of Thailand protested and refused to stop at Wakaf Bharu railway station in Kelantan, Malaysia. The Thai entrance to the Harmony rail bridge is currently sealed off by the Royal Thai Army with KTMB and SRT's permission.
Services
KTM Intercity trains once served the station. Trains between Malaysia and Thailand (the International Express or Ekspres Antarabangsa, between Butterworth and Bangkok, and the Ekspres Langkawi, between Kuala Lumpur and Hat Yai) cross the border on the western branch of the Malay network at Padang Besar railway station. Later, DMUs (diesel multiple units) from Thailand took up the entire schedule until drivers' protests against terminating the DMU services at Kota Bharu and Tumpat, which rose unexpected numbers of passengers and led to its disuse.
2008 flooding between Pondok Tanjung and Bukit Merah, Malaysia
During some flash floods in certain parts of Malaysia in 2008, the station and its trackline served as an emergency route for the Eastern and Oriental Express trains, through Su-ngai Kolok, when the Pondok Tanjung-Bukit Merah part of the mainline were unusable causing a direct divert. After the diversions, the station and its trackline went back to its current state.