Serangoon MRT Station

NE12  CC13  Serangoon MRT Station 实龙岗地铁站 சிராங்கூன் Stesen MRT Serangoon Rapid transit
NEL platform at Serangoon MRT Station
Station statistics
Address	600 Upper Serangoon Road 21 Serangoon Central Singapore 534801/ 556082
Coordinates	1°21′00″N 103°52′23″E
Lines	North East Line   Circle Line
Connections	bus, taxi
Structure	Underground
Levels	4
Platforms	Island
Tracks	4
Other information
Opened	20 June 2003 (North East Line) 28 May 2009 (Circle Line)
Accessible
Code	NE12 / CC13
Services
Preceding station   Mass Rapid Transit   Following station Woodleigh towards HarbourFront North East Line Kovan towards Punggol Bartley towards Dhoby Ghaut Circle Line Lorong Chuan towards HarbourFront
Location
Serangoon MRT Station

Serangoon MRT Station (NE12/CC13) is an underground interchange station on the North East Line and the Circle Line in Singapore. The station is located in the Serangoon Central area, at the intersection of Upper Serangoon Road and Serangoon Central. This station sees relatively heavy usage during peak periods, because a number of bus services which used to go to the city area now terminate at Serangoon Bus Interchange instead. The station is operated by SBS Transit on the North East Line and SMRT Corporation on the Circle Line.

History

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 Hougang stations.

The artwork in the North East Line side of the station under the Art in Transit programme is Memories of Childhood by Eng Joo Heng. The artwork featured in the Circle Line side is called View of Life by Sarkasi Said. The author used 18 original batik paintings on cloth which were photographed and printed onto a sheet of glass.

2004 train disruption

250 train passengers were trapped in trains on 8 February 2004 from 11.22 am to 11.41 am when the power was disrupted at Serangoon MRT station, causing all stations from Serangoon to Punggol to be closed during the disruption.^{[citation needed]}

Station sinking incident

In February 2005, excavation for the tunnels under the existing North East Line station for the Circle Line interchange station hit an unusually large body of groundwater. This caused settlement of the North East Line station as well as the Serangoon viaduct directly above the station, with the station sinking by 1 cm. As a result, trains bound for Punggol pulling off the station have to pass by the affected area at a lower speed. By the first few months of 2007, train speeds started picking up once again after the excavation was near completion.

Circle Line

The Circle Line portion of the station opened on 28 May 2009. This is the second station in the MRT system after Dhoby Ghaut to have a travelator within the paid-area of the station, which is 73 metres in length, about 20 metres longer than the one at Dhoby Ghaut. As of 2010 January 28, an integrated development, consisting of the nex shopping mall and a bus interchange, is being constructed on the site directly above the Circle Line part of this station.

2010 train disruption

Train service on the North East Line (NEL) was temporarily disrupted for about 26 minutes between Serangoon and Hougang stations at around 8.25am on 21 April 2010 due to technical problems with the signalling and the communication systems.

Station Layout

L1	Street Level	nex, Serangoon Bus Interchange
B1	Concourse	Faregates, Ticketing Machines, Station Control, 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 (←)
	Platform A	Circle Line towards  CC29  NE1  HarbourFront (→)
	Island platform, Doors will open on the right
	Platform B Alternate Services	Circle Line towards  CC1  NS24  NE6  Dhoby Ghaut (←) Circle Line towards  CE2  NS27  Marina Bay (←)

Gallery

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  Platform Area

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  Circle Line exit before the opening of Stage 3