Tuas Crescent MRT station

Mass Rapid Transit station in Singapore

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Tuas Crescent
大士弯
துவாஸ் கிரசண்ட்

Mass Rapid Transit (MRT) station

View of the platform level of Tuas Crescent station.

General informationLocation90 Pioneer Road
Singapore 639608Coordinates

Preceding station	Mass Rapid Transit			Following station
Gul Circle towards Pasir Ris		East–West Line		Tuas West Road towards Tuas Link

Location
Tuas Crescent Tuas Crescent station in Singapore

Tuas Crescent MRT station is an above-ground Mass Rapid Transit (MRT) station along the East–West line in Tuas, Singapore. This station is named after a road in the vicinity.

History

It was first announced on 11 January 2011 by then-Transport Minister Raymond Lim in a speech while visiting Bedok when new platform screen doors opened there. It was expected to be completed by 2016 and would benefit an estimated 100,000 commuters daily.

According to Lianhe Zaobao, this station and the tracks linking it are built in the middle of a vehicular viaduct, a historical first for Singapore train services.^{[citation needed]}

It has the longest staircase in all stations with 105 steps, and the longest escalator of 17.5m in Singapore's rail network.^[3]

The opening of the station was delayed from 2016 to the second quarter of 2017 to make way for the installation of the new signalling system. It entered operations on 18 June 2017. ^[1]^[2]

Stations between Gul Circle to Tuas Link were temporary closed between 16 and 19 November 2017 following collision incident happened between Joo Koon and Gul Circle. On 20 November 2017, train service from Gul Circle to Tuas Link was resumed; however, train services between Joo Koon and Gul Circle remained suspended until mid-2018 to facilitate maintenance work on signalling devices.^[4]

References

^ ^a ^b "Tuas West Extension Opens on 18 June 2017". Land Transport Authority. 27 April 2017.
^ ^a ^b "Tuas West Extension MRT stations to open Jun 18". Channel NewsAsia. 27 April 2017. Archived from the original on 31 January 2020. Retrieved 27 April 2017.
^ SMRT (June 21, 2017). "#Allabouttrains Fun Facts about Tuas West Extension stations". Facebook. Retrieved 2018-01-26.
^ Tang, Louisa; Ming En, Siau (16 November 2017). "Tuas West Extension suspended until Sun; no service for Joo Koon-Gul Circle for 1 month". Today. Retrieved 18 February 2018.