If you plan to travel from Kuala Lumpur to Singapore by train you need to first take a train to Gemas, then change trains for the journey from Gemas to Johor Bahru Sentral Station, from where you can then get a train to Woodlands just over the border in Singapore.
Train Times from Gemas to Johor Bahru
There are 4 direct train services a day from Gemas to Johor Bahru.
Train | Gemas | Johor Bahru | Service |
41 | 02:00 | 06:25 | Southern Shuttle |
27 | 07:44 | 12:30 | Ekspress Rakyat Timuran |
43 | 09:30 | 14:15 | Southern Shuttle |
45 | 15:20 | 19:45 | Southern Shuttle |
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Gemas Railway Station
Trains to Johor Bahru depart from Gemas Railway Station.
Johor Bahru Sentral Station
Trains from Gemas terminate at Johor Bahru Sentral Station.
Connections to Singapore
There are three ways you can travel from Johor Bahru to Singapore: bus, taxi and train. Train is the best option because you avoid the queues on the Causeway which links mainland Malaysia to Singapore.

There are 14 departures a day from Johor Bahru Sentral Station to Woodlands Railway Station in Singapore from 05.30 to 22.15 every day of the year. The journey takes only 5 minutes and tickets cost 5 MYR one-way. Ticket gates open 30 minutes before each departure and close 10 minutes before the train departs. The big advantage of using the train to travel from Johor Bahru to Singapore is that there is an immigration office after you go through the ticket barrier and you get to avoid the lengthy queues at the immigration office on the Causeway linking Johor Bahru to Singapore. The disadvantage of travelling by train as opposed to taxi or bus is that Woodlands Railway Station is 1.6 km from the nearest station on Singapore’s metro system, Marsiling Undeground Station.