Penang Transportation Hub
Butterworth to Taiping by Railway, Bus and Car
Penang Sentral, located in Butterworth – Penang mainland, is a transportation hub in Penang area, with KTM railway station, Express Bus station and Ferry pier in one location. Traveler can choose to have scheduled Express Bus, or Railway train to Taiping as your destination. It is only one hour trip by train or one and a half hours by car or express bus from Penang Sentral, via NSE, North-south Expressway [E1].
NSE is also part of AH2 (Asian Highway route 2) of Asian Highway Network. And it is only 140 km from Bukit Kayu Hitam (Sadao in Thailand) Border checkpoint, if traveling down from the largest metropolitan of Thailand in the south – Hat Yai.
Butterworth – Taiping travel by road
KTM / ETS Train Timetable (Schedule) Butterworth to Taiping
There are 16 trips of trains depart from Butterworth Railway Station to Taiping Railway Station everyday. Including 6 trips of ETS bound for KL Sentral in Kuala Lumpur and Commuter Train services bound for Ipoh on daily basis.
The journey takes 51 minutes ~ 1 hours 4 minutes.
Penang International Airport to Taiping by Car
Driving route from Penang International Airport to Taiping via the 2nd Penang Bridge and NSE E1 [AH2]. The distance is approximately 95 km, takes about 75 minutes during normal traffic condition.
Penang Island to Taiping
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.
