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Sengkang LRT Line

 SKLRT 
Sengkang LRT Line
Laluan LRT Sengkang
盛港轻轨线
செங்காங் லைட் ரெயில் வரி
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Overview
Type Automated guideway transit/People mover
System Light Rail Transit (Singapore)
Status Operational
Termini Sengkang
Stations 14
Services 2
Operation
Opened 18 January 2003 (East Loop)
29 January 2005 (West Loop)
Owner Land Transport Authority
Operator(s) SBS Transit (ComfortDelGro)
Rolling stock Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Crystal Mover C810
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Crystal Mover C810A
Technical
Line length 10.7 km (6.6 mi)
Track gauge 1850 mm Broad Gauge
Electrification 750 V DC Third rail
Route map
West loop
Fernvale SW5
Layar SW6
SW4 Thanggam
Tongkang SW7
SW3 Kupang
Sengkang Depot
SW2 Farmway
Renjong SW8
SW1 Cheng Lim
Sengkang East Road
North East Line
to HarbourFront
North East Line
to Punggol
Sengkang STC
Punggol LRT Line
Ranggung SE5
SE1 Compassvale
Punggol Road
Kangkar SE4
SE2 Rumbia
SE3 Bakau
East loop

The Sengkang LRT Line is a 10.7-kilometre (6.6 mi) automated guideway transit line in Singapore. The line, which initially opened on 18 January 2003, connects the residential districts and suburbs of Sengkang to Sengkang Town Centre, where it connects with the North East MRT Line and the Sengkang Bus Interchange. It is the second line of the LRT system in Singapore and like all other lines, it is fully elevated and uses automated trains.

Planning for the Sengkang LRT Line was underway when the Bukit Panjang LRT was opened by then-Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong on 6 November 1999. Construction began in January 2000 for both the East Loop and West Loop.

On 31 October 2012, the Land Transport Authority announced that starting in the first quarter of 2016, both the Sengkang and Punggol LRT systems would be upgraded to two-car trains, doubling the passenger capacity. An additional 16 more cars were to be ordered, bringing the total fleet size to 57. The longer trains also required modifications to the signalling and communication system.

On 22 December 2015, the line began operating two-car trains, five years after plans to raise the capacity of the increasingly packed light-rail system were announced.

Around the end of 2016, two-car trains started being deployed on both directions of the West Loop during the weekday peak hours, due to the increasing number of commuters living in new HDB flats located near Thanggam, Kupang and Farmway LRT Stations. Before this, two-car trains were only deployed towards the direction of Cheng Lim during morning peak hours, and towards the direction of Renjong during evening peak hours.


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