I'm not sure if this has ever been discussed before, but here
goes...
Sometime ago I kept having persistent dreams of strange, unknown
MRT tunnels running around in Singapore. A few days ago, while
thinking about it, I realised that there indeed are what I could
call "phantom" MRT stations around Singapore - and I don't mean
Woodleigh either.
Most of you already know about the empty boxes lying at Punggol
and Changi Airport MRT stations, intended for the future North
Shore (or North Coast) Line. I have also started to hear rumours
about already-existing provisions for the Thomson Line to hook up
with Orchard, with ION floor plans revealing hints of a MRT station
(that is not Orchard Station) nearby. I have seen
it myself and I was quite surprised to see what clearly appears to
be a floor plan of an MRT station in the basements of ION Orchard,
hidden away from the main shopping area - complete with what
appears to be an island platform. I sometimes wonder about it when
I'm at ION Orchard, just thinking about what's hidden behind all
those walls.
After seeing this and thinking about it, I suddenly realised -
our government, being the far-ahead thinkers they are, could had
built such phantom stations and even tunnels elsewhere, to sit
empty and dark for years or even decades until the lines that use
them are announced and built.
Apart from the known boxes at Punggol and Changi Airport, and
the suspected one at ION Orchard, I wonder if there are other such
"phantom" MRT stations or even whole tunnel segments already built
somewhere around the island, sitting unused and unknown to most of
the public right now, waiting one day in the future to become
eventually used...
With earlier URA concept plans showing a huge mass of MRT lines
all over the island, I won't be surprised if the authorities,
following the concept plans, built provisions for some of them a
long while ago. I could, for example, easily imagine a phantom
station sitting right below the North-South MRT Line between Yew
Tee and Kranji, where the future Sugnei Kadut station will
supposedly go - remember, what we now know as the Downtown Line
stage 2 is shown in earlier URA concept plans to have it's
north-western terminus exactly at where this unbuilt station could
go.
Other places that could potentially be home to such "phantom"
stations and tunnels include the missing NE2 station - they could
have had put in a few columns and pillars there, in addition to
strengthening the tunnel walls, when they built that stretch with
the idea of a future station being built there later in mind - and
possibly, around and above the Esplanade MRT station, as well as
the large four-way underpass near Esplanade - Theatres on the Bay
that links to it as well as CityLink Mall nearby. Esplanade station
itself has an unused elevator shaft, the concourse area is
strangely divided into two, and that four-way underpass fishily
looks like an MRT station without the MRT to me when I first saw
it. Also, remember the blueprints for Esplanade MRT station showing
an "Arts Centre Line" crossing it? Who knows, LTA may had already
built a bit of it when they built the Circle Line...
I know this all sounds like I'm going crazy, but the evidence
for the existence of some of these "phantom" stations and tunnels
are already there. Any thoughts?
Ang Mo Kio Station , after you tap your card in and at the very
back of the station there is a white colour wall with a door and a
lock on it. I managed to peep through it and there's a
escalator going downwards. I think thats the Future Tampines line
Ang Mo kio station.