Marsiling MRT Station

Marsiling MRT Station (NS8) is an above-ground Mass Rapid Transit station on the North South Line in Singapore. It serves residents living in Woodlands, Singapore Neighbourhoods 1 to 4. Because of the station's proximity to neighbouring Housing and Development Board apartment blocks, a privacy screen has been built along the tracks at the side of the station (southbound platform) facing these apartment blocks so as to ensure the privacy of the residents.

During evening peak hours on weekdays, some trains will arrive at platform B of the station to do a turnaround and arrive at platform A of the station to travel back to Jurong East, which is a prominent interchange. This turnaround train service is intended to provide more trains running between Marsiling and Jurong East.

This station was part of the Woodlands Extension when it was built.

Train service

Station Layout

Bus services

The following bus services pass by the bus stops along Woodlands Avenue 3:

Platform Screen Doors

As with most of the above-ground stations built in the past along the North South Line, it was initially built without Platform Screen Doors that prevent commuters from falling onto the train tracks. On 12 October 2011, the installation of the platform doors begins. On 22 December 2011, the platform screen doors began operations with Admiralty.

Shops & facilities nearby

• Woodlands Checkpoint
• Woodlands Train Checkpoint
• Johor Causeway
• Sheng Siong Supermarket (Grocery store)
• NTUC Fairprice (Grocery store)
• Woodlands Polyclinic
• MaO Arena (Street Soccer Court)
• Fuchun Community Centre
• Woodlands Secondary School
• Marsiling Secondary School
• Fuchun Primary School
• Fuchun Secondary School

Incidents

2002 accident

A man was killed when he was hit by an MRT train near Marsiling station at about 11.40pm on 30 November 2002. Mr Tan Ngak Yam, 70, a Malaysian, was walking along the MRT tracks when he was hit by a northbound train about 500 m from the station.^[1]

2007 accident

On 25 December 2007, northbound train service between Woodlands MRT Station and Kranji MRT Station was disrupted when a man was hit by a train at Marsiling MRT Station. He was sent to the National University Hospital with serious leg injuries. This disruption, coupled with a disruption at Kranji earlier in the same day, affected 5000 passengers.^[2]

2009 train disruption

On 17 June 2009, 900 passengers were affected when a northbound train malfunctioned at the station at 2.25pm, subsequently passengers had to alight at Woodlands. Passengers on the affected trains and stations were kept informed through announcements. The delay lasted 20 minutes.^[3]

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