Beauty World MRT Station
DT5 Beauty World 美世界 பியூட்டி வேர்ல்ட் Beauty World | |||||||||||
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 Beauty World MRT Station exit at night | |||||||||||
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101 Upper Bukit Timah Road Singapore 588216 | ||||||||||
| Coordinates | 1°20′28″N 103°46′33″E / 1.341133°N 103.775797°E | ||||||||||
| Operated by | SBS Transit DTL | ||||||||||
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| Platforms | Island | ||||||||||
| Tracks | 2 | ||||||||||
| Connections | Bus, Taxi | ||||||||||
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| Structure type | Underground | ||||||||||
| Platform levels | 2 | ||||||||||
| Disabled access | Yes | ||||||||||
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| Station code | DT5 | ||||||||||
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| Opened | 27 December 2015 | ||||||||||
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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.[1]
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.[2]
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.[3]
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.[4] 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.
Station layout
| L1 | Street Level | |
| B1 | Concourse | Faregates, Ticketing Machines, Station Control, Transitlink Counter |
| B2 | Platform B | Downtown Line towards DT19 NE4 Chinatown via DT6 King Albert Park (→) |
| Platform A | Downtown Line towards DT1 BP6 Bukit Panjang via DT3 Hillview (←) | |
Exits
- A: Beauty World Centre, Bukit Timah Nature Reserve, Bukit Timah Shopping Centre, UOB Centre
- B: Bukit Timah Tua Pek Kong Temple, Kilat Centre, JK Building
- C: Bukit Timah Market & Food Centre, Bukit Timah Community Club, Ngee Ann Polytechnic
Transport connections
Rail
| Destination | First Train | Last Train | ||||
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| Mon – Sat | Sunday & Public Holiday | Daily | ||||
| Downtown Line | ||||||
| to DT1 Bukit Panjang | 6.09am | 6.30am | 12.40am | |||
| to DT19 Chinatown | 5.37am | 5.57am | 11.42pm | |||
References
- ↑ "Alignment of DTL and DTL 2 and maps of DTL 2 stations" (PDF). Land Transport Authority. Retrieved 2008-07-16.
- ↑ "Speech by Mr Lui Tuck Yew, Minister for Transport, on A Sustainable and High Quality Public Transport-Centric Transportation System, at the Committee Of Supply Debate 2015 on 11 March 2015". Ministry of Transport, Singapore. Retrieved 2016-04-19.
- ↑ "Contract 916 Tender Information". Land Transport Authority. Archived from the original on 2009-04-18.
- ↑ "Downtown Line 2 Tunnelling Works Begin at Beauty World Station". Land Transport Authority. Archived from the original on 2011-08-07.