Labrador Park MRT Station
| CC27 Labrador Park MRT Station 拉柏多公园地铁站 லாப்ரடார் பூங்கா Stesen MRT Labrador Park Rapid transit |
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| Address | 701 Telok Blangah Road Singapore 109029 |
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| Coordinates | 1°16′20″N 103°48′10″E / 1.272267°N 103.802908°E | ||||||||||
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| Connections | Bus, Taxi | ||||||||||
| Structure | Underground | ||||||||||
| Levels | 2 | ||||||||||
| Platforms | Island | ||||||||||
| Tracks | 2 | ||||||||||
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| Opened | 8 October 2011 | ||||||||||
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| Code | CC27 | ||||||||||
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Labrador Park MRT Station (CC27) is an underground Mass Rapid Transit station on the Circle Line in Singapore. It is operated by SMRT Corporation.
It is situated near to Labrador Park, a historical site which held former fortifications and naval guns built by the British forces in Singapore before World War II. The station has 1 exit and entry point. An overhead pedestrian bridge links various offices across Alexandra and Telok Blangah roads to the station. The station is located along the Labrador Nature & Coastal Walk's Berlayer Creek sector.
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[edit] Art in Transit
The artwork featured in this station under the Art in Transit programme is Without Which/Would Have Been/Impossible by Heman Chong. The art piece, located on the side of the lift shaft in the station, consists of the title of the piece and several coloured circles of different sizes arranged in a regular fashion. According to the artist, the motif came from a "microscopic view of a single rock" found at Labrador Park, highlighting the park's distinctive identity as the last surviving rocky sea cliff in Singapore.[1]
[edit] Station layout
| L2 | Overhead Bridge | PSA Building |
| L1 | Street Level | Labrador Park |
| B1 | Concourse | Faregates, Ticketing Machines, Station Control, Transitlink Counter |
| B2 | Platform A | Circle Line towards CC29 NE1 HarbourFront (→) |
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| Platform B Alternate Services |
Circle Line towards CC1 NS24 NE6 Dhoby Ghaut (←) Circle Line towards CE2 NS27 Marina Bay (←) |
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[edit] 2011 train disruption
At 8.36am on Oct 17 2011, a Circle Line train heading from this station to Pasir Panjang experienced a train fault and had to be taken out of service. To maintain train service between Kent Ridge and HarbourFront, SMRT operated two shuttle train services: Between Kent Ridge and Pasir Panjang on one track; and between Pasir Panjang and HarbourFront on both tracks, for passengers to continue their journey to HarbourFront. SMRT also activated free bus bridging service between Kent Ridge and HarbourFront stations from 9.45am to around 11.38am to supplement the train shuttle services in anticipation of the number of passengers at Kent Ridge station.
Normal train service resumed at 11.12 am. The train fault is still under investigation. This disruption came 9 days after the entire Circle Line went into operation and happened on the same day as a separate breakdown at Ang Mo Kio. [2]
[edit] References
- ^ Martin, Mayo. "Circle Line Art! The final destination(s)! A sneak peek!". For Art's Sake!. TODAYonline Blogs. http://blogs.todayonline.com/forartssake/2011/09/21/circle-line-art-the-final-destinations-a-sneak-peek/. Retrieved 12 October 2011.
- ^ "Two SMRT lines hit by delays". TODAY Online. 2011-10-17. http://www.todayonline.com/Singapore/EDC111017-0000248/Two-SMRT-lines-hit-by-delays.
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