Railways in

Sarawak

A train of the Sarawak Government Railway stands at Kuching station in the early part of the 20th century.
The locomotive Bulan was a 4-4-0T built in the United Kingdom by Peckett in 1914.

Sarawak is a state of Malaysia situated on the island of Borneo.

The first railway in Sarawak was a metre gauge line opened in 1915 between Kuching and a quarry some 16 km distant. It was planned to extend it a further 27 km, but the extension was never built. The line was financially unsuccessful and closed for public service in 1931. It continued in occasional use for stone haulage until World War II.

In 2024, a feasibility study was announced for a new high speed railway of around 1200km following the north coast of the island of Borneo between Pontianak, West Kalimantan, and Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, running through Sarawak and Brunei.

In 2026, the Sarawak government stated that it would prioritise the construction of a 200km railway from Miri to Bintulu. The railway forms part of a development plan initially proposes in 2008. In the plan, the railway would extend a further 120km from Bintulu to Mukah. NO decision has been taken regarding the latter section.