Gemas

Gemas is notable for being at the railway junction between the Malaysian west and east coast rail lines.

Gemas also marks the southern end of the electrified and double-track section of the West Coast Line.

Federal Route 1 links Gemas with Seremban, the capital of Negeri Sembilan as well as Tampin and all the way to Johor Bahru.

This road is built almost parallel to the KTM East Coast Line tracks, passing through Bahau and Triang, two important railway towns.

On 14 January 1942, "B" Company of the 2/30th Battalion, launched an ambush against the Japanese in the hope of preventing them from advancing further south.

Four days later, another encounter between Japanese and Allied soldiers took place near Parit Sulong during the Battle of Malaya.

A memorial remembering fallen Australians now stands by the site of the destroyed Gemencheh Bridge in Federal Route 1.

Negeri Sembilan-Johor state border monument
Former KTMB Gemas railway station, now a museum .
New KTMB Gemas railway station, on the junction between the west coast and east coast lines.
Platforms of the new Gemas station.
Southern Bus
Gemencheh Bridge (middle distance) in 1945. More than 400 troops of the Japanese 5th Division were slaughtered here, with the Australians losing 8 men and suffering 80 wounded.