Dhoby Ghaut Station (MRT Singapore)

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Dhoby Ghaut MRT Station (2013)

The Dhoby Ghaut MRT station is a tunnel station on the North South Line , the North East Line and the Circle Line in the museum district of Singapore .

Dhoby Ghaut station is at the east end of Orchard Road and is the first and only MRT station in Singapore with a triple transfer line. This makes it the largest station in terms of number of lines. However, the existing Outram Park and Marina Bay MRT stations will also become triple transfer stations in 2021, once the Thomson-East Coast Line MRT line opens. The location of Dhoby Ghaut station along the popular Orchard Road shopping belt and its connection to three MRT lines make this station one of the busiest stations on the network.

Dhoby Ghaut is the fourth deepest MRT station in Singapore after Bras Basah MRT Station, Promenade MRT Station and Bencoolen MRT Station. Its deepest point is 28 meters underground.

The section between this station and Somerset is the shortest between two stations on the North South Line. It takes approximately 1 minute for a train to travel between these two stations.

The station is also one of the four MRT stations featured in the original Singapore edition of the board game Monopoly.

The nearby attractions are Istana, Sri Temasek, Dhoby Ghaut Green, Plaza Singapura , MacDonald House , National Museum of Singapore , Luxe Art Museum , Singapore Management University , School of the Arts (SOTA) and Fort Canning Park .

history

The station is located on a former Jewish cemetery that was established between 1838 and 1841. Before the station was built, it was temporarily called Istana , after the Istana nearby. Its current name, Dhoby Ghaut, was chosen to reflect the region's heritage as a traditional Indian laundry. "Dhobi" is named for the Indian washers who used to work on the current site of the station, and "Ghat" refers to the steps leading down to the canal where the dhobis would dry clothes after washing. The amber mansions, the Jewish cemetery and the Sivan Temple were then torn down. Contract 106, Singapore Pilling and Civil Engineering , begins on October 14, 1983 with the excavation of the Somerset tunnels to City Hall together with Dhoby Ghaut and is awarded. The other intermediate shafts are on Waterloo Street and Victoria Street .

When Dhoby Ghaut Station was under construction, there was a small collapse at Dhoby Ghaut MRT Station that formed a 6m wide hole in the Cathay Cinema on January 12, 1985, and a fatal accident occurred in June 1985 due to one Breach of safety rules. Construction for the North South Line was completed on September 12, 1985.

In front of the construction of the North East Line, the Circle Line and The Atrium at Orchard , an underpass was opened on December 8, 1990, after disputes over the payment of the construction of the underpass to the congestion of the traffic lights over Orchard Road reduce. The construction of the North East Line and the Circle Line required a slight diversion of Orchard Road, construction of which began in January 1999 and resumed on July 14, 2006.

The modernization of the North South Line was completed on October 12, 2002. Construction work for the elevator in the disabled station began in September 2000. With the opening of the Northeast MRT line on June 20, 2003, four of the exits were built with close links to Plaza Singapura and travelers were also installed in the MRT station for the first time. Other stations that also have Travellators are Botanic Gardens, Bugis, and Serangoon.

During the construction of the Dhoby Ghaut MRT station for the Circle Line on March 25, 2003, the section of Orchard Road was realigned. Dhoby Ghaut was one of four stations participating in Exercise Northstar V , a mock terrorist exercise that took place on January 8, 2006.

Kind in transit

The artwork Interchange by Milenko and Delia Prvacki is on the walls of the connection between the North South Line and the North East Line. The Singaporean artist Baet Yoke Kuan created a three-dimensional relief work on the large pillars that support the station's circle line sector, inspired by the concept of “people and the environment”.

Web links

Commons : Dhoby Ghaut MRT Station  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dhoby Ghaut MRT Station .
  2. ↑ A Land with a Past discoversg.com, accessed December 19, 2019
  3. ^ MRT job done on time despite obstacles , The Straits Times. September 12, 1985, p. 10. 
  4. ↑ Row overbuilding of underpass , The Straits Times. May 23, 1987, p. 10. 
  5. ^ Survey on the impact of MRT on traffic , The Straits Times. February 11, 1988, p. 23. 
  6. ↑ More MRT stops ready for disabled , The Straits Times. December 24, 2002. 

Coordinates: 1 ° 17 ′ 56.7 "  N , 103 ° 50 ′ 44.6"  E