Bishan MRT Station
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NS17 CC15
Bishan 碧山 பீஷான் Bishan |
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Circle Line (Dhoby Ghaut-bound) platform of Bishan MRT station.
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| Location | 200 Bishan Road 17 Bishan Place Singapore 579827 / 579842 |
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| Coordinates | 1°21′04″N 103°50′54″E / 1.351236°N 103.848456°E | |||||||||||||||
| Operated by | SMRT Trains (SMRT Corporation) | |||||||||||||||
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| Platforms | Island (North South Line 1987 - 2008) Separated Side (North South Line 2009 - present) Island (Circle Line) |
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| Tracks | 4 | |||||||||||||||
| Connections | Bus, Taxi | |||||||||||||||
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| Structure type | Sub-Surface (North South Line) Underground (Circle Line) |
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| Platform levels | 4 | |||||||||||||||
| Disabled access | Yes | |||||||||||||||
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| Station code | NS17 CC15 | |||||||||||||||
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| Opened | 7 November 1987 (North South Line) 28 May 2009 (Circle Line) |
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| Electrified | Yes | |||||||||||||||
| Previous names | San Teng MRT Station | |||||||||||||||
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Bishan MRT Station (NS17/CC15) is a Mass Rapid Transit interchange station along the North South Line and the Circle Line in Bishan, Singapore. The station is located along Bishan Road, at the town centre of Bishan. On the North South Line, some trains from Bishan Depot arrive at platform B of the station to travel southbound towards Marina South Pier for evening peak period services. An underpass allows commuters to transfer from one line to the other.
The contract to build San Teng MRT station was awarded to a Belgian and Singaporean joint venture on 16 December 1983. This SGD$32,882,507 contract, the first involving cut and cover construction awarded by the MRT Corporation, also includes 3.2 kilometres of tunnels between San Teng MRT station and Braddell MRT Station.
On 21 September 1984, the MRT Corporation renamed San Teng station to Bishan station to reflect the name of the new housing estate that was being built around this MRT station.
The Circle Line section of this station displays the Art in Transit artwork Move!. There are three murals created by Soh Ee Shaun depicting landmarks that residents of the Bishan area identify with.
Being located on the site of the Peck San Theng cemetery, the station is rumoured to be haunted, and has been the subject of several Singaporean urban legends, as well as the site for alleged ghost encounters. A 1988 article in The New Paper mentioned rumoured sightings of headless ghosts at the station.
The newspaper The Sunday Times ran an article debunking an urban legend associated with the station, along with an article featuring an account by a passenger who claimed that, while riding on a train passing through the station one morning in the early 1990s, she was groped by several unseen hands before passing out. She was later revived by fellow passengers. There are also other alleged encounters of ghosts and other entities by several passengers in and around the station, such as headless figures, footsteps coming from the roof of the train, and phantom passengers who do not cast reflections on the train windows.
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