The KTM train leaves Taiping at 11:53AM and arrives in Ipoh at 12:37PM. I did manage to snap some pictures of the historical Victoria Bridge – a single track railway truss bridge located in Karai, between Kuala Kangsar (I will do a day trip there by bus) and Ipoh. It is one of the oldest railway bridges in the country, having been constructed between December 1897 and March 1900 by the Perak Government Railway as a crossing over the Perak River to serve the local tin mining industry. The Victoria Bridge remained in use until 2002, when a wider concrete girder bridge built parallel to the old bridge was completed to take over the role of handling rail traffic. The new bridge is significantly wider, with room to support a second track, but in its early life it was only required to handle a single track until double tracking and electrification was conducted between the Ipoh-Padang Besar line during the late-2000s and early-2010s. While the old bridge is closed to rail traffic, its adjoining footbridge is still publicly open to motorcycles and pedestrians. Attempts have been made to retain the structure, with occasional maintenance having been conducted on it (https://www.malaysiasite.nl/karaieng.htm). The 15:40 Wednesday KTM train from Ipoh to KL Sentral (scheduled to arrive at 18:15 but it was around 10 minutes late as this train makes most stops) was only Myr30 with a discount of some kind instead of the Myr50 in August for an earlier Monday train that leaves after noon. Going to Ipoh in August was Myr40ish… These were older train cars as there was no hand rest in the middle of the seats…
