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Mandai Depot

Coordinates:1°25′10″N103°47′49″E/ 1.419357°N 103.796960°E/1.419357; 103.796960
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Mandai Depot
Location
LocationMandai Road
Coordinates1°25′10″N103°47′49″E/ 1.419357°N 103.796960°E/1.419357; 103.796960
Characteristics
OwnerLand Transport Authority
OperatorSMRT Trains(SMRT Corporation)
TypeAt-grade
RoadsMandai Road,SLE
Rolling stockKawasaki-Sifang T251
Routes servedTELThomson–East Coast Line
History
Opened31 January 2020

Mandai Depot(Malay:Depot Mandai;Chinese:Vạn lễ xa hán) is an integratedtrainandbusdepot located inMandai,Singapore.The train depot serves as the maintenance and control centre of theThomson-East Coast linewhile the bus depot is used for the Sembawang-Yishun Bus Package.[1]

The facility is located on a 32 ha (79 acres) site[2]bounded byMandai Road,Seletar Expresswayand Lorong Lada Hitam, on the former site of Orchidville.[3]

The depot is located betweenWoodlandsstation andSpringleafstation on the Thomson–East Coast Line and has three reception tracks: one track northbound towards Woodlands station and two tracks southbound towards Springleaf station.

History

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First announced by theLand Transport Authorityon 16 June 2011, construction of the depot commenced at the end of 2012 and is expected to be an at-grade depot. The largest orchid farm, Orchidville, was moved on 11 December 2012 to Sungei Tengah, and construction of the depot had begun in January 2013.[4]

Contract T201 for the construction of Mandai Depot and its associated facilities was awarded to Jurong Primewide Pte Ltd at a sum of S$329 million in October 2013. Construction began in December 2013, with completion in 2019.[5][6][7]

Contract T206 for the construction of bored tunnels betweenWoodlands,Woodlands Southand Mandai Depot was awarded to Shanghai Tunnel Engineering Co., Ltd at a sum of S$421 million on 18 October 2013. Construction will start in 2014, with completion in 2020.[8]The contract includes completion of twin bored tunnels betweenWoodlandsandWoodlands South,twin bored tunnels betweenWoodlands Southand crossover tunnels to Mandai Depot, as well as a single bored tunnel betweenWoodlandsand Mandai Depot.

In October 2020, the bus depot was handed over to Tower Transit, which had secured the contract for the Sembawang-Yishun Bus Package the previous month.[9]

Design

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The depot includes a rail administration building, stabling yards, test track, storage warehouses and maintenance workshops. The administration building will house the Operation Control Centre (OCC) and Depot Control Centre (DCC) for theThomson–East Coast Line.The stabling yards have a capacity for 90 trains, and stabling capacity supplemented by theEast Coast Integrated Depot.The workshops have the capability of servicing and maintaining 11 trains simultaneously.[10]A 66kV substation will be built to support the operation of the TEL.

The bus depot is situated on the roof of the train stabling yard, and provides parking and maintenance facilities for at least 550 buses for the Sembawang-Yishun Bus Package under theBus contracting model.[10]

References

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  1. ^"Factsheet: Thomson-East Coast Line – Mandai Depot | Press Room | Land Transport Authority".2019-03-06. Archived fromthe originalon 2019-03-06.Retrieved2019-09-19.
  2. ^OneMap
  3. ^"Orchid farm to make way for Thomson Line depot".2017-10-30. Archived fromthe originalon 2017-10-30.Retrieved2019-09-19.
  4. ^"Thomson Line Depot to be Constructed in Mandai | Press Room | Land Transport Authority".Archived fromthe originalon 2014-02-02.Retrieved2013-04-30.
  5. ^"LTA | News Room | News Releases | LTA Awards Four Contracts for Thomson Line".2020-02-13. Archived fromthe originalon 2020-02-13.Retrieved2020-02-13.
  6. ^Journal, Tunnelling (2013-10-18)."LTA awards four Thomson contracts".The Tunnelling Journal.Retrieved2019-09-19.
  7. ^"Factsheet: Thomson-East Coast Line – Mandai Depot".www.lta.gov.sg.Retrieved2019-09-19.
  8. ^"LTA Awards Four Contracts for Thomson Line".www.lta.gov.sg.18 October 2013. Archived fromthe originalon 7 January 2020.Retrieved7 January2020.
  9. ^"LTA Awards Bulim and Sembawang-Yishun Bus Packages to Tower Transit".Land Transport Authority. 30 September 2020.Retrieved1 October2020.
  10. ^ab"Factsheet: Thomson-East Coast Line – Mandai Depot".2019-09-19. Archived fromthe originalon 2019-09-19.Retrieved2019-09-19.
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