Operated by SBS Transit DTL Platforms Island Structure type Underground Opened 27 December 2015 Connections Bus, Taxicab | Line(s) Downtown Line Tracks 2 Address Singapore Level 2 | |
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Location 101 Upper Bukit Timah Road
Singapore 588216 Similar King Albert Park MRT Station, Hillview MRT Station, Sixth Avenue MRT Stati, Tan Kah Kee MRT Station, Downtown MRT Station | ||
Beauty World MRT Station (DT5) is an underground Mass Rapid Transit station on the Downtown Line in Bukit Timah, Singapore. The station serves the Bukit Timah and Upper Bukit Timah corridors. Notable buildings in the area include Bukit Timah Shopping Centre, Beauty World Centre and Beauty World Plaza. It is near to Toh Yi Estate and Ngee Ann Polytechnic.
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The section of track between Beauty World and Hillview stations is the longest between any two stations on the Downtown Line. There exists a basic structural provisions for a possible future station (also known as a "box station") along this section of track.
History
The Land Transport Authority has awarded the contract for the construction of Beauty World station and associated tunnels (Contract 916) to McConnell Dowell S.E.A. Pte Ltd on 25 March 2009, valued at S$339,879,555.00.
Tunnelling works began on 8 June 2011. Two tunnel boring machines — which were named Athena and Artemis, after the Greek Goddesses by students of the nearby Pei Hwa Presbyterian Primary School, will tunnel the 1 km stretch from Beauty World to King Albert Park. The section of track between Hillview and Beauty World is the longest on the Downtown Line.
Part of the construction process was shown on an episode of Behind Every Job 2 on MediaCorp's Channel 8.
Etymology
The original name for "Beauty World" referred to an amusement park in the area. At that time, amusement parks were called "worlds": the others included Gay World, Great World, which Great World City now occupies and New World. The amusement park was subsequently converted to a market after the end of World War II, and called Beauty World Market. However, fire hazards led to the subsequent demolishing of the park in the 1980s.
Art in Transit
"Asemic Lines" by Boedi Widjaja is an artwork that presents the multi-cultural mix of language and invites viewers' aesthetic intuition to 'hover' between reading and looking.