Type Underground Phone +65 8287 4991 Opened 2008 | Rolling stock C830, C830C, C951 | |
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Roads Kim Chuan Road, Upper Paya Lebar Road Routes served Circle Line, Downtown Line Address 11 Kim Chuan Rd, Singapore 537065 Similar Opp SBST Hougang Depot, SBST Hougang Depot, MRT Bishan Depot, Bartley | ||
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Kim Chuan Depot is a train depot for the Mass Rapid Transit system in Singapore. The depot is constructed fully underground and provides maintenance, stabling and operational facilities for the Circle Line and Downtown Line. Located in Hougang, along Upper Paya Lebar Road, it became the first depot in Singapore to serve two independently operated MRT lines. (Although the older Bishan Depot and Ulu Pandan Depot serve both the North South and East West Lines, the lines are not independently operated.)
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History
The project cost S$297 million to construct and and 2.1 million cubic metres of soil had to be excavated for its construction. Touted as the world's biggest underground depot, it officially opened on 4 March 2009, employing 300 staff members.
The depot was used for the temporary storage and light maintenance of rolling stock for the Downtown Line, before the completion of the Tai Seng Facility Building. It also provided a route in which Downtown Line trains can be towed from the depot to its operational line via the Circle Line tracks. Once the main depot, Gali Batu Depot was completed with stage 2 of the Downtown Line, Kim Chuan Depot simply provides a route for newly delivered Downtown Line trains to be transferred in to the Tai Seng Facility Building.
Design
The depot has a capacity to stable 70 trains and covers an area of more than 100,000 square metres, reaching a depth of 24 metres at some points. Specifically, the main depot floor is 800 metres in length, 160 metres in width and 23 metres in height.The facility contains the main operation control centre for the Circle Line, maintenance facility, stabling areas, and ancillary facilities such as train wash and workshops. It also houses an automatic storage and retrieval system, a warehouse that stores spare parts for the rolling stocks and other equipments. The depot is connected to the adjacent Tai Seng Facility Building on the east side of the facility and in the future will be operating in tandem with the Tai Seng Maintenance Facility when the stage 3 of the Downtown Line commences operations in late 2017.
The depot is accessible via an administration building along Kim Chuan Road, containing offices, a warehouse, a canteen and a 66 kilovolt substation is located above the depot. The remaining 3 hectares of land left empty will be used for light industrial use with buildings on it up to 9 storeys high.
The depot is located between Tai Seng station and Bartley station on the Circle Line and has 4 reception tracks: 2 tracks Clockwise-bound towards Tai Seng station and 2 tracks Anticlockwise-bound towards Bartley station.
Expansion
The announcement to expand the current Kim Chuan Depot was announced by the LTA in tandem with the Circle Line stage 6 extension. The expansion called for the depot to be expanded to almost double its capacity from 70 to 133 trains. The integrated depot will also house 550 buses to optimise land use. The expansion of the depot will be completed at about the same time as CCL6 in 2025. The location of the project will be along the Bartley Road East viaduct, opposite the current Kim Chuan Depot site.