Mandai Depot

Mandai Depot
万礼车厂
Overview
Owner Land Transport Authority
Type At-grade
Opened 2019
Details
Rolling stock T251
Routes Thomson-East Coast Line

Mandai Depot (Chinese: 万礼车厂) is a full maintenance train depot located in Mandai in Singapore. Currently under construction, It will be operational from 2019 onwards.[1]

Located at a 32 ha (79 acres) site [2] bounded by Mandai Road, Seletar Expressway and Lor Lada Hitam, it is within the Mandai Agrotechnology Park.[3] and has the capacity to stable up to 90 trains.[4]

The Depot will serve the upcoming Thomson-East Coast Line and will include a rail administration building, stabling yard, test track and control room. The administrative building will house the OCC and DCC for the Thomson Line. A 66kV substation will be built to support the operation of the TEL.

The depot is located between Woodlands station and Woodlands South station and has 3 reception tracks: 1 track Northbound towards Woodlands station and 2 tracks Southbound towards Woodlands South station

History

First announced by the Land Transport Authority on 16 June 2011, construction of the depot would commence at the end of 2012 and is expected to be an at-grade depot. As a result of the construction, the farm, Orchidville that previously occupied the site was acquired.[5] Prior to the acquisition, Orchidville was the largest orchid farm in Singapore.

Integration of Bus Depot

Integrated within Mandai Train Depot for the Thomson-East Coast Line, this future bus depot will house maintenance facilities and a large enclosed bus park built above the train depot’s maintenance shed.

References

  1. ↑ "Speech by Mr Lui Tuck Yew, Minister for Transport, at the Inspection of Downtown Line 1 Station and Announcement of Thomson Line alignment, 29 August 2012, 10.00am at Telok Ayer Station". Ministry of Transport. 29 August 2012. Retrieved August 29, 2012.
  2. ↑ OneMap
  3. ↑ Orchidville – Learn a little bit more about our history
  4. ↑ http://app.lta.gov.sg/data/apps/news/press/2011/TSL%20Annex-A%2016-06-2011.pdf
  5. ↑ http://app.lta.gov.sg/apps/news/page.aspx?c=2&id=2g8u06wb5lpg487lobzx9o7n1sfszjo7137e2b82kqgbb1lbm6
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