The older elevated station serves the LRT Ampang Line which is built according to the standard design of the Ampang Line elevated stations. It consists of two side platforms flanking the double elevated tracks, above a concourse level where the fare gates are located. Both platforms can be reached from the concourse level via stairways and escalators. Previously, there were no elevators, and hence, the station was not disabled-friendly until they were fitted in 2015.
MRT station
The MRT station is one of the seven underground stations of the MRT Sungai Buloh-Kajang Line. The underground station is built directly beneath Jalan Cheras. The station has two underground levels - a concourse level with fare gates, customer service office, toilets and machinery rooms - and a platform below with an island platform configuration. The theme given for the design of the station is "New Generation" and features colourful panels on the exterior and interior walls of the station. The MRT station is the last underground station before the line resurfaces and heads towards Kajang.
Exits and Entrances
The integrated station can be accessed via a total of five entrances, with four entrances belonging to the MRT station and one belonging to the LRT station, which is not assigned any letter. With the exception of the shopping centre passageway, all entrances are located on either side of Jalan Cheras. The MRT station entrance from/to the linkway to the LRT station is named Entrance C but it only leads to/from the LRT station and does not allow any direct access from outside. The MRT station's three exterior entrances have escalators, lifts and staircases. All these entrances lead down to the station's underground concourse level from ground level. In 2019 a new entrance opened near Entrance A which leads directly into the AEON Taman Maluri Shopping Centre. At ground level, covered pedestrian walkways link the exit with entrances of the MRT station, and subsequently to the covered walkway to the Sunway Velocity Shopping Centre. LRT users wishing to go the mall can also utilise paid-to-paid linkway to exit via the MRT station entrances.
LRT-MRT Linkway
The Maluri station comprises two separate station buildings which are connected via an elevated linkway. An elevated linkway connecting the paid areas of both the LRT and MRT stations allows commuters to transfer seamlessly between the LRT Ampang Line and the MRT Sungai Buloh-Kajang Line at this station. The linkway was built together with the MRT station. It connects the LRT station at the paid area of the concourse level while at the MRT station, the linkway connects directly to Entrance C which is located one level above ground level. From Entrance C, escalators, a lift and staircase go directly down to the paid area of the underground concourse level. As the linkway is part of the paid area of both stations, there are no direct exits to/from the outside. Unlike the MRT station, the linkway is not air-conditioned.
The alignment of the LRT Ampang Line at this location uses the alignment of the old Federated Malay States Railways tracks which ran from Ampang Junction, where the Ampang branch line left the West Coast Main Line to head to the branch line terminus at Ampang town. This branch line was opened on 1 May 1914 and was mostly to cater to the tin mines in the Ampang area. However, no railway station is known to have existed at this location during this period. The tracks crossed Jalan Cheras as a level crossing until the alignment was converted for the construction of the LRT in the 1990s where a railway bridge was built over the road.
LRT Ampang Line station
The LRT station was constructed as part of the development of the STAR LRT project in the 1990s. It was completed and opened together with the line on 16 December 1996, along with 13 other stations between the Sultan Ismail and the Ampang. The line was the first LRT line to be operational in Malaysia.
MRT Sungai Buloh-Kajang Line station
Construction of the underground MRT station began in 2012 following the official launch of the construction of the MRT Sungai Buloh-Kajang Line. The station is located beneath Jalan Cheras. As a result, throughout the construction of the station, various diversions of the road had to be carried out. Decking above the work site was also erected to enable traffic to run while station box excavation and other construction work proceeded underneath. The station was opened on 17 July 2017 together with the opening of Phase Two of the MRT line from Muzium Negara MRT station to Kajang MRT station.
