Pulau Sebang/Tampin railway station

This station is located in Pulau Sebang in the Alor Gajah District of the state Malacca, and is just a few minutes walk from the Tampin town centre in Negeri Sembilan. Tampin and Pulau Sebang itself have been blending their development between these borders that any differences look hard to distinguish between the borders originally marked in the town.

Being a station between the border of two states, near a major town and the terminus of a major commuter line makes the station quite strategic to travellers. It serves both Tampin and Pulau Sebang localities in general and attracts passengers as far as central Melaka as there's a bus route of SBST Melaka bus service T20 that goes from Melaka Sentral to Tampin bus terminal.

Initially, the station was named "Tampin railway station", despite the station being situated geographically in Pulau Sebang, and not Tampin. There was an unresolved dispute to what the railway station is named as. The people in Negeri Sembilan called the railway station "Tampin railway station" while the people in Malacca called it "Pulau Sebang railway station". KTM also confirmed that the railway station's name is "Tampin" not "Pulau Sebang". Even after a signboard that read "TAMPIN/PULAU SEBANG" was put up on the platforms, the dispute was still ongoing. However, on 4 January 2013, KTM resolved the naming dispute by changing the station's name from just Tampin to Pulau Sebang/Tampin on the orders of the Melaka state government. But since 2018, all signboard bearing the station's name have only the name "PULAU SEBANG" with the word "(TAMPIN)" removed. This change was most probably done informally due to the KTMB ticketing system and train information display still bearing the original station name though some KTM Class 93 rolling stock was seen with an infographic mentioning Pulau Sebang only.

The station began operations on 15 July 1905 when construction of the West Coast Line reached Tampin from Seremban.^{[2][3][4][5][a]} Later on 1 December 1905, the 34-kilometre (21 mi) Tampin-Malacca Line was opened.^[6] The main trunk line to Gemas was only opened about a year later on 1 October 1906. The Tampin-Malacca Line was later dismantled by the Japanese Empire in World War II, with the dismantled tracks transported to Thailand and Myanmar to build the infamous Thai-Burma Death Railway.^[7][8][9]

The original station building underwent a reconstruction in 1995, and was then demolished and rebuilt in 2013 during the Seremban-Gemas electrification and double-tracking project on the West Coast Line.^[10] The new station building was officially opened on 10 October 2015.^[11][12]

In conjunction with the opening of the new station and electrified line in 2015, KTM Komuter introduced a new route, a shuttle service between Seremban and Gemas stations with an intermediate stop at Pulau Sebang/Tampin.^[13][14] Southbound Komuter passengers (from Kuala Lumpur) will have to alight at Seremban station, and wait for the shuttle train services to Gemas railway station|Gemas. The shuttle service was cut short on 20 June 2016 to Pulau Sebang/Tampin, removing both Batang Melaka and Gemas from the line. This system operated until 11 July 2016, when then KTM Komuter Seremban Line was extended to Pulau Sebang/Tampin, effectively merging the shuttle service with the Komuter line. The Seremban Line would eventually be renamed the Batu Caves–Pulau Sebang Line to reflect the current termini of the line.

The station was the starting point of KTM Intercity's Ekspres Selatan service, which terminated at JB Sentral. However, in 2021, KTM truncated the service to start from Gemas instead. The station has since been served by several KTM ETS services.

Pulau Sebang/Tampin railway station serves as a station for KTM ETS and KTM Komuter services. Below is the list of train services available as of 24 February 2026. ^[15]