Perak State Railway

Despite reports to the contrary this was not the first railway in Malaya (now known as West Malaysia), it was merely the fact that the Taiping to Port Weld line was the first to open of those lines which went on to form the Federated Malay States Railway, now known as Keretapi Tanah Melayu Berhad or KTMB.

For information the earlier lines were the Johore Wooden Railway in the early 1870s, the Tanjong Pagar Dock Company in 1877 and the Penang Steam Tramway in the early 1880's.

The Taiping to Port Weld line, 8 miles 6 chains, was built to serve the tin-mining industry and opened on 1st June 1885. It would be almost 5 years before the next section from Taiping to Kamunting, 3 miles 50 chains, was opened on 6th May 1890 and this was followed by Kamunting to Ulu Sepatang, 5 miles 22 chains, on 1st July 1892. The rest of the system was built in isolated sections over the next 10 years and not all sections were joined together until after the merger with the Selangor Government Railway in 1901 which formed the Federated Malay States Railway. A branch line was opened from Ipoh to Tronoh on 15th October 1908 to serve the tin mines, its length being 14 miles and 63 chains. the fnal section from Tronoh to the mines was opened on 11th September 1909 and added a further 63 chains. This branch was closed by the Japanese occupiers on 9th June 1943 with the track being sent to the Burma-Siam Railway and was never reinstated. The Telok Anson branch which was opened on 19th May 1893 was closed by the Japanese occupiers on 10th July 1943 and the track sent to the Burma-Siam Railway but this branch line was reinstated after WWII.

Perak State Railway locomotives
Manufacturer	Works number	Year built	number/name	FMSR Class	FMSR July 1901	Notes
Ransomes & Rapier	150	1881	1 Perak	1	1	Calcutta class, became Sentul Works pilot, withdrawn 1916, cut 1920.
Hunslet	342	1884	2	A	5	to CD 21 in October 1919
Hunslet	408	1886	3	A	9	to CD 22 in October 1919
Hunslet	502	1889	4	B	10
Hunslet	537	1889	5	A	12	to CD 3 in September 1919
Hawthorn, Leslie	2232	1891	6	B	13	Scrapped 10/1926
Hunslet	582	1893	7	A	16	to CD 36 in January 1926
Neilson	4625	1893	8	C	17	Scrapped 9/1925
Neilson	4626	1893	9	C	18	Withdrawn & scrapped Oct 1924
Kitson	3521	1894	10	C	19
Kitson	3522	1894	11	C	20
Kitson	3523	1894	12	C	21
Hunslet	623	1895	13	A	26	>FMSR 26 in 1901 >JSR 4 in 1907 >FMSR 4 in 1910 >CD 23 in 1919, withdrawn 8/1924
Hawthorn, Leslie	2323	1895	14	C	27	>JSR 5 in 1907, >FMSR 28 in 1912
Hawthorn, Leslie	2324	1895	15	C	28	>JSR 6 in 1907, >FMSR 29 in 1912
Hunslet	656	1896	16	A	29	>FMSR 29, 1901 >JSR 3, 1907 >CD 11, November 1912
Kitson	3681	1896	17	E	30
Kitson	3682	1896	18	E	31
Hunslet	681	1898	19	A	34
Hunslet	682	1898	20	A	35
Hunslet	691	1899	21	G	36
Hunslet	692	1899	22	G	37
Hunslet	693	1899	23	G	38
Hunslet	694	1899	24	G	39
R Stephenson	3007	1901	25	G	46	Scrapped 7/1934
R Stephenson	3008	1901	26	G	47	Scrapped 11/1931
R Stephenson	3009	1901	27	G	48	Scrapped 7/1934
Neilson, Reid	6105	1902	28	G	51	Scrapped 7/1934
Neilson, Reid	6106	1902	29	G	52	Scrapped 7/1931
Neilson, Reid	6107	1902	30	G	53
Neilson, Reid	6108	1902	31	G	54
Neilson, Reid	6109	1902	32	G	55	Scrapped 4/1934
Neilson, Reid	6110	1902	33	G	56

Unclassified	A & B classes	A² class	C¹ class
Burma E and O	C² class	D class	E class
F class	G class	H class	I class
J class	K¹ class	K² class	L class
M class	O class	P class	Mallet
Q class	R class	S class	T class
WWII	Sentinel	WD class

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