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Butterworth to Taiping Transport

Butterworth to Taiping by Road (Bus / Car)

Travel by car or by scheduled Express Bus, Taiping is 86 km from Penang Sentral in Butterworth via NSE – North-south Expressway. While Butterworth is only 140 km from Bukit Kayu Hitam (Sadao in Thailand) Border checkpoint. NSE is also part of AH2 (Asian Highway 2).

Butterworth Transport Terminal

Penang Sentral 

Butterworth to Taiping by Train – ETS (KTM)

6 trips of ETS and 5 trips of Commuter Train provided by KTM from Butterworth to Taiping on daily basis.

ETS Time-table: Butterworth – Taiping ( > Ipoh – KL Sentral)

Train no. EP9171 / 9173 / EG9231 / EP9175 / 9177 / 9179 – Duration: 56min
Butterworth (05:15 / 06:20 / 07:50 / 12:45 / 16:05 / 18:45)
Bukit Mertajam – Parit Buntar – Taiping  (06:11 / 07:16 / 08:48 / 13:41 / 17:01 / 19:41)

Northern Commuter Train no. 2900 / 2902 / 2906 / 2910 / 2912 – Duration: 1hr4min
Butterworth (05:20 / 07:00 / 13:35 / 17:30 / 19:15)
Bukit Tengah – Bukit Mertajam – Simpang Empat – Nibong Tebal – Parit Buntar Bagan Serai – Kamunting – Taiping
effective from 15-Jan-2022

KTM / ETS Intercity Time-table

Pan-Asia Railway Network

It is also known as Kunming – Singapore Railway, when completed that would connect Kunming – Singapore via Vientiane, Bangkok, Kuala Lumpur and also Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh City, Phnom Penh, Yangon, Mandalay and Chiang Mai. It is part of Trans Asian Railway Network – TAR, a project of UNESCAP – United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific.

AH2 – Asian Highway route number 2

AH2 – Asian Highway 2, is one of the routes in Asian Highway Network which starts from Denpasar in Bali, Surabaya, Jakarta, Singapore, continuous to Kuala Lumpur, Ipoh, Taiping and Bukit Kayu Hitam via NSE. Then, to Hatyai, Chumphon via Route 4, Bangkok, Tak, Mei Sai in Chiang Rai, to Myanmar, India, Bangladesh, Nepal, Pakistan and ends in Khosravi, Iran. 13,107 km total in length.