Land Transport Review - Rail

Vigelic SG

eh try asking LTA?

201911 SG

it has been indefinitely postponed. straits times interviewed this guy called lim bok ngam in an article titled 'groundwork begins for new MRT lines' published sometime in 2006, who said that 'unless theres going to be a very heavily built up township', we will not build another LRT system. it was also in there that he first mentioned the thomson line, but it was the said to be the 'MRT equivalent of the CTE', which it most certainly isnt. (not according to the newly released plans)

brotherchen1982 SG

Nope, upgrading to bigger home... Wink

Btw, the handbook for New Flats in Jurong West Area then had the 'Proposed MRT Line' along Jurong West St 63 & the HDB staff said the MRT will be extended to Tuas 'in a few yrs time'... Laughing

sinicker SG

so it all came true. congrats.

my parents told me when they first bought the house in tampines(i stay blk 243), everyone thought the mrt will run down ave 5 towards tanah merah(follow bus 31 route) because then, the interchange was across the stadium(presumably the empty field diagonally across the banks/across stadium) but the mrt station was built was across my house!! Laughing

SMRT 32373238 SG

Yeah. Prefer Kawasaki very much. The 4th gen Kawasaki train will be added in 2012 as it was mentioned that LTA will be working with SMRT to purchase additional trains on NSL and EWL. We will get to see new series like 401/402, 403/404 and blah. Laughing

Its codename could be "C951". Cos I remembered C851 is already taken up as the DTL train if I remembered it correctly.

Really looking forward to that! How u know its gonna be Kawasaki?

Scania SG

Aiya... It's not SMRT say wanna buy new trains... It's the gahmen... Laughing

Anyway, I think the new ERL will be like the Tung Chung Line in Hong Kong, considering the crappy "High-Speed MRT" liner.

That is if they use pantograph instead of thrid rail. Third rail has its limitations when it comes to speed.

Hopefully they buy new trains with the Siemens VVVF inverter, that one sounds very nice, or the Alstom one (not the one on NEL, but the one with the Violin sound that can be found in other countries). The current 3rd gen Kawasakis use Mitsubishi VVVF inverters.

Scania SG

I'm quite interested to know where LTA wants to put the stations for East Coast line, and whether they want to implement an Airport Express kind of service to the Airport.

Here is my opinion,

Option 1

New Station someway in Marina Bay
Possible Depot at Marina East
(empty shell for Marina East)
Tanjong Rhu (far inside near condo)
Meyer (underneath Fort Rd, near TT Durai's house)
Amber (can be situated underneath junction of Tanjong Katong Rd and Mountbatten Rd)
Marine Parade (underneath Marine Parade Rd)
Marine View (underneath Marine Parade Rd at Marine Crescent/Terrace)
Laguna (outside Laguna park condo)
Bayshore (At junction of Bayshore Rd, Upp East Coast Rd and Lucky Heights)
Possible depot between Upp East Coast Rd and East Coast Parkway
Kew (Bus terminal: Upp East Coast Bus Terminal)
Track leading to Changi Depot if using current NSL, EWL system
XIlin (At junction of Xilin Av and junction of Changi South Av3, in East-West direction)
Changi Airport
Then either Changi Village, Pasir Ris, or Changi Aiport Terminals 4, 5, 6, New Changi Convention Center (one station for T 4, 5, 6, Convention will do, share station) if needed

Option 2

New station somewhere in Marina South
Then same as the above till
Meyer (underneath junction of MeyerRd, Tanjong Rhu Rd and Fort Rd)
Marine Parade (underneath ECP)
Marine View (underneath ECP, can serve both marine Crescent/Terrace and Marine Cove)
Laguna (underneath ECP near bedok South Av 1, can serve both the condos there and Seafood Center)
then same as above until
Xilin (no station)
Then Changi Airport

Airport Express option,

1) Separate Platform and tracks at City Area Stations (assuming they would connect East Coast line and thomson line like in their initial plan), Marine Parade and Changi Airport from the main line

2) Charge premium fare, give premium services

3) Share tracks with main East Coast line between Xilin and Changi Airport for Option 1, Kew and Changi Airport for Option 2

4) Gateless system at Changi Airport

5) Have one car as a baggage car

6) City Area check in

7) Design the train such that once it is 10+ years, it can go for its refurbishment and return into service as a normal train (not Airport Express train, I do think that MTR would be doing so for their Airport Express A Stock, next time train old, convert into Tung Chung line train, though need to to add doors, cos they only have 3 instead of 5)

Sounds familar? Its somewhat the system MTR is using.

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