Botanic Gardens MRT Station
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CC19 DT9
Botanic Gardens 植物园 பூ மலை Kebun Bunga |
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Botanic Gardens Platform B on the Downtown Line.
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| Location | 100 Cluny Park Road Singapore 257494 |
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| Coordinates | 1°19′21″N 103°48′55″E / 1.322519°N 103.815406°E | |||||||||||||||||||
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SMRT Trains (SMRT Corporation) (Circle Line) SBS Transit DTL (Downtown Line) |
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| Platforms | Island | |||||||||||||||||||
| Tracks | 4 | |||||||||||||||||||
| Connections | Bus, Taxi | |||||||||||||||||||
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| Structure type | Underground | |||||||||||||||||||
| Platform levels | 3 | |||||||||||||||||||
| Disabled access | Yes | |||||||||||||||||||
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| Station code | CC19 DT9 | |||||||||||||||||||
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| Opened | 8 October 2011 (Circle Line) 27 December 2015 (Downtown Line) |
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| Electrified | Yes | |||||||||||||||||||
| Previous names | Adam | |||||||||||||||||||
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Botanic Gardens MRT Station (CC19/DT9) is an underground Mass Rapid Transit interchange station on the Circle Line and Downtown Line in Tanglin, Singapore.
This station is located near the Singapore Botanic Gardens at the intersection of Bukit Timah Road and Cluny Park Road, hence its name. It is also near the National University of Singapore Bukit Timah campus and is behind Serene Centre. As the Bukit Brown station will only be operational after the Bukit Brown area has been developed enough, the section of track between Botanic Gardens and Caldecott is the longest on the Circle Line. As the distance between the Circle Line and Downtown Line platforms is relatively long, it has travelators, the fourth station after Dhoby Ghaut, Serangoon and Bugis to have travelators within the paid area.
The Downtown Line station (DT09) was designed by AEP Consultants and Geoconsult Asia and was constructed by Sembawang Engineers & Constructors.
Botanic Gardens station is the only MRT station in Singapore to have an official Malay name.
On 11 March 2012, a worker was killed at a site near the Botanic Gardens, beside the contractor's site office after a concrete slab fell on him. 35-year-old Masud al-Mamun was operating an excavator deep in the ground when the slab fell on him. Rescuers had to use a breaking tool kit to break a portion of the concrete slab. It took nearly five hours to reach the man lying motionless on the ground. This is the first casualty related case in the construction of the Downtown Line.
Train services on the Downtown Line (DTL) were delayed this morning due to a signalling-related fault at DT9 Botanic Gardens Station. The Platform Screen Doors (PSD), which are controlled by the signalling system, malfunctioned about 5.45am and could not automatically open. Staff had to manually operate the doors whenever a train arrived at the station and this took some time which caused a delay to train services.
To enable our engineers to resolve the problem as soon as possible and minimise inconvenience to commuters, a decision was subsequently taken to close the platform at DT9 Botanic Gardens Station for trains heading towards Chinatown. With the closure of the platform, train services on the DTL could continue without delay on the Line.
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