Bukit Gombak MRT station is an above-ground Mass Rapid Transit (MRT) station on the North South line in Bukit Batok, Singapore. Located at the junction of Bukit Batok West Avenue 5 and Bukit Batok East Avenue 5, it is the nearest MRT station to the Bukit Batok Town Park, a scenic parkland otherwise known as "Little Guilin".
Bukit Gombak
NS3 武吉甘柏
புக்கிட் கோம்பாக் | |||||||||||||||
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| Mass Rapid Transit (MRT) station | |||||||||||||||
 Bukit Gombak Station Platform B | |||||||||||||||
| General information | |||||||||||||||
| Location | 802 Bukit Batok West Avenue 5 Singapore 659083 | ||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 1°21′31″N 103°45′06″E / 1.358702°N 103.751787°E | ||||||||||||||
| Operated by | SMRT Trains Ltd (SMRT Corporation) | ||||||||||||||
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| Platforms | 2 (1 island platform) | ||||||||||||||
| Tracks | 2 | ||||||||||||||
| Connections | Bus, Taxi | ||||||||||||||
| Construction | |||||||||||||||
| Structure type | Elevated | ||||||||||||||
| Platform levels | 1 | ||||||||||||||
| Accessible | Yes | ||||||||||||||
| History | |||||||||||||||
| Opened | 10 March 1990 | ||||||||||||||
| Electrified | Yes | ||||||||||||||
| Previous names | Bukit Batok North | ||||||||||||||
| Passengers | |||||||||||||||
| June 2024 | 18,519 per day[1] | ||||||||||||||
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Opened on 10 March 1990, Bukit Gombak station was part of the Branch line before the opening of the North South line Woodlands Extension on 10 February 1996.
History
editInstallation of half-height screen doors at the station started on 30 April 2010 and operations commenced on 16 August 2010 with Clementi.[2] Then, this station was installed with high-volume low-speed fans, which commenced operations on 31 October 2012.
Bukit Gombak was a temporary terminus for the North South line from 18 to 19 September 2010 during the Jurong East Modification Project upgrade.[3] and during the late openings of the MRT on Sundays from June to November 2016.[4]
References
edit- ^ "Land Transport DataMall". mytransport.sg. Land Transport Authority. Archived from the original on 14 August 2024. Retrieved 14 August 2024.
- ^ Wong, Siew Ying (January 26, 2008). "Above-ground MRT stations to have platform screen doors by 2012". Channel NewsAsia. Archived from the original on July 30, 2012. Retrieved February 1, 2012.
- ^ "LTA and SMRT gear up for disruption over the weekend". Archived from the original on 2017-08-10. Retrieved 2017-08-10.
- ^ "Late Opening of the East West and North South Line for maintenance works". Archived from the original on 2017-08-10. Retrieved 2017-08-10.
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