Hougang MRT Station

NE14  Hougang MRT Station 后港地铁站 ஹவ்காங் Stesen MRT Hougang Rapid transit
HarbourFront bound platform at Hougang MRT Station
Station statistics
Address	80 Hougang Central Singapore 538758
Coordinates	1°22′17″N 103°53′32″E
Lines	North East Line
Connections	Bus, Taxi
Structure	Underground
Levels	2
Platforms	Island
Tracks	2
Other information
Opened	20 June 2003
Accessible
Code	NE14
Services
Preceding station   Mass Rapid Transit   Following station Kovan towards HarbourFront North East Line Buangkok towards Punggol
Location
Hougang MRT Station

Hougang MRT Station (NE14) is an underground station on the North East MRT Line, Singapore. It is located in the central part of Hougang New Town which is connected to the bus interchange and surrounding HDB flats and shopping centres.

This station has distinctive artwork titled Hands Up for Hougang by Seck Yok Ying, featuring handprints of 3000 people, from babies to grandmothers, foreign workers to community leaders. This station sees relatively heavy usage during peak periods.

Before the station opened, the Singapore Civil Defence Force conducted the second ever Shelter Open House on 15–16 February 2003, together with Chinatown, Farrer Park and Serangoon stations.

Station Layout

L1	Street Level	Hougang Central Bus Interchange, Hougang Mall
B1	Concourse	Faregates, Ticketing Machines, Passenger Service Centre
B2	Platform A	North East Line towards  NE1  CC29  HarbourFront (→)
	Island platform, Doors will open on the right
	Platform B	North East Line towards  NE17  Punggol (←)

Incidents

Bomb Hoax

Liu Tze Yuen, 42, a Chinese man was behind the Hougang bomb hoax which disrupted train services for hours on August 12, 2005. He was also accused of putting boxes in public buses on July 7 and August 12 - the latter on the same day he was accused of carrying out the hoax at Hougang MRT station.

On July 7, he was said to have placed a white package in a bus that he was travelling in. He did it at about noon on route 151 as he was travelling along Hougang Avenue 3. Tacked on the package was a note which said: 'If you see it, please don't touch and leave this bus.'

More than a month later, on August 12, he allegedly left another package wrapped heavily with scotch tape on route 143 while he was travelling along Eu Tong Sen Street in Chinatown. He was said to have done it at about 1:30 pm - an hour after he allegedly left a similar package at the Hougang MRT station. The package was found to have only empty food cans and empty packets of instant noodles.

Liu allegedly intended the passengers on the two buses and the train station to believe that the packages contained explosive devices and was later sentenced to 3½ years in jail.

2011 Train Disruption

On 26 December 2011, a loud bang was heard coming from a train along the North-East Line at about 7.20 pm. Operator SBS Transit said it was due to a sudden electrical surge on the train heading towards Punggol. A short in the surge protector resulted in a loud sound. Passengers were asked to disembark at Hougang station as a safety precaution.

This caused a delay of nine minutes for the service towards Punggol.