Paya Lebar MRT Station is a Mass Rapid Transit (MRT) interchange station on the East West Line and the Circle Line in Singapore. It is the first station in Singapore that serves both an above ground line (East West Line) and an underground line (Circle Line). The livery of the East West Line and the Circle Line portions are green and orange respectively.
Paya Lebar station is located near next to the Singapore Post centre. Due to its proximity to the centre, many of the employees there commute by train. It is just south of the urban planning areas in Singapore and the town it serves, Paya Lebar. The station also serves the Geylang Serai district, the popular Geylang Serai hawker centre, and the Malay Village. Therefore, it usually gets crowded during the Hari Raya period, when Muslims and other visitors flock to the festival bazaar.
History
Paya Lebar opened on 4 November 1989 on the East West Line. On 17 April 2010, the Circle Line platforms opened[1] and the travelling time was shortened to around 13 minutes when travelling from Bishan.
On 4 April 2007, a man died after being hit by a train along the East West Line sector at about 10.20 am. Police said the victim, a 52-year old Chinese, was pronounced dead by paramedics at 10.45 am. East-bound services were disrupted from Aljunied to Eunos for 41 minutes but resumed by 11.02 am.
As with most of the above-ground stations along the East West Line, it was built without platform screen doors to prevent commuters from falling onto the train tracks. Installation of half-height platform screen doors was started on 28 October 2010 and started operations on 11 January 2011 with Bedok.[2]
The Circle Line side of this station has been equipped with full-height platform screen doors since the operations started on 17 April 2010. Even though, it became the first ever underground MRT station with double-island platforms.
The station was installed with Rite Hite Revolution High Volume, Low Speed (HVLS) fans and have been in operation since 14 July 2012 together with Kembangan.
SMRT has said an eastbound train at Paya Lebar was unable to depart from the station at 3.15 pm on 8 April 2012. As a result, passengers were asked to alight at the station. SMRT said a second train behind the stalled train was called to push out the train. Some passengers in the second train could have experienced some jerking during the train coupling process. The train operator added that eastbound train service from Eunos to Paya Lebar resumed at around 4 pm. Some 500 passengers at Paya Lebar were affected during the incident.[3]
A track fault at Paya Lebar delayed trains travelling towards HarbourFront on 31 December 2012. SMRT had called in staff to manually drive the trains between Dakota and MacPherson to navigate the fault. Circle Line trains began running normally again more than four hours after the fault took place around 8 am.[4]
Station layout
There are two links between the elevated East West Line station and the underground Circle Line station. The first link consists of a series of escalators to the Circle Line concourse from the western side of the East West platform. The second link, which have barrier-free will be made from the former Exit A which has been closed since late 2007 for reconstruction. Paya Lebar is also the only underground station in Singapore to have three rail tracks.
| L2 | Platform 1 | East West Line towards Pasir Ris via Eunos (→) |
| Island platform, doors will open on the right | ||
| Platform 2 | East West Line towards Joo Koon via Aljunied (←) | |
| Transfer Area | Escalators and stairs to Circle Line Concourse | |
| L1 | EWL Concourse | Faregates, Ticketing Machines, Station Control |
| Transfer Linkway | Escalators and stair to East West Line Platforms and Circle Line Concourse | |
| B1 | CCL Concourse | Faregates, Ticketing Machines, Station Control |
| Transfer Linkway | Escalators and stairs to East West Line Platforms | |
| B2 | Platform 3 | Circle Line towards HarbourFront via MacPherson (→) |
| Island platform, doors will open on the right | ||
| Platform 5/6 | No regular service | |
| Island platform, doors will open on the right | ||
| Platform 4 | Circle Line towards Dhoby Ghaut via Dakota Circle Line towards Marina Bay via Dakota (Peak Period Only) (←) | |
Transport connections
Rail
| Destination | First Train | Last Train | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mon – Sat | Sunday & Public Holiday |
Daily | ||||
| East West Line | ||||||
| to Pasir Ris | 6.11am | 6.39am | 12.22am | |||
| to Joo Koon | 5.46am | 6.12am | 11.41pm | |||
| Circle Line | ||||||
| to Dhoby Ghaut | 5.40am | 6.07am | 11.49pm | |||
| to HarbourFront | 5.40am | 6.07am | 11.04pm | |||
| to Pasir Panjang | – | – | 11.34pm | |||
| to one-north | – | – | 11.50pm | |||
| to Caldecott | – | – | 12.18am | |||
| to Tai Seng | – | – | 12.18am | |||
| to Mountbatten | – | – | 12.26am | |||
Gallery
References
External links
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