Gali Batu Depot

Gali Batu Depot
Overview
Coordinates 1°23′52.57″N 103°45′21.47″E / 1.3979361°N 103.7559639°E
Operator SBS Transit
Type At-grade
Opened 2016
Details
Rolling stock C951
Routes Downtown Line

Gali Batu Depot is a train depot located off Woodlands Road in Singapore. It will provide maintenance services for the upcoming Downtown Line of the Mass Rapid Transit system, and is directly linked to Bukit Panjang. Construction of the 21 hectare at grade depot with the capacity to stable up to 42 trains, started in the first quarter of 2009, to be completed by 2015 and will be open in 2016, but on 17 Feb 2015, Land Transport Authority will be expanding its capacity to fit 81 trains by 2019.

As part of the construction which started in December 2008, 1,957 graves on part of the Kwong Hou Sua Teochew Cemetery had to be exhumed.

External links