Lakeside MRT Station

EW26  Lakeside 湖畔 ஏரிக்கரை Lakeside
Rapid transit
Platform of Lakeside MRT station.
Location	201 Boon Lay Way Singapore 649845
Coordinates	1°20′40.52″N 103°43′16.10″E / 1.3445889°N 103.7211389°E
Operated by	SMRT Trains (SMRT Corporation)
Line(s)	East West Line
Platforms	Island
Tracks	2
Connections	Bus, Taxi
Construction
Structure type	Elevated
Platform levels	2
Disabled access	Yes
Other information
Station code	EW26
History
Opened	5 November 1988
Previous names	Corporation
Services
Preceding station   Mass Rapid Transit   Following station Chinese Garden towards Pasir Ris East West Line Boon Lay towards Joo Koon
Location

Lakeside MRT Station (EW26) is an above-ground Mass Rapid Transit station on the East West Line in Jurong West, Singapore. Its station colour is red and green.

The station derives its name from the most prominent geographical feature in the area, the Jurong Lake. The station serves residents living in Hong Kah, Taman Jurong and Boon Lay, as well as people working in Jurong Port and Pioneer Sector.

History

Lakeside MRT Station was originally named Corporation, it was renamed in 1986. The station was opened on 5 November 1988, it was a western terminal station for the East West Line, when westbound train terminates at Platform B before it turnaround utilised nearby crossover to Platform A headed back to the East, before Boon Lay was fully opened on 6 July 1990 and the MRT system that time was declared opened by the late President Wee Kim Wee.

As with most of the above-ground stations built in the past along the East West Line, it was built without platform screen doors to prevent commuters from falling onto the train tracks. After several successful tests at Jurong East, Yishun and Pasir Ris and eventually, installation of the half-height screen doors started on 9 June 2010 and operations commenced on 31 August 2010 along with Bukit Batok.^[1]

The station was installed with Rite Hite Revolution High Volume, Low Speed (HVLS) fans and commenced operations on 30 November 2012 with Bukit Batok.

Temporary interchange due to JEMP

The services along the East West Line from Clementi to Jurong East was unavailable from September 4 to 5, 2010, to facilitate the construction of the connector track as part of the Jurong East Modification Project, Joo Koon bound trains terminated at platform A and utilised the nearby crossover to continue to Joo Koon. Two slow shuttle trains also deployed between this station to Jurong East on both platform A and B, as this stretch have no crossover, as the train running towards Jurong East on Westbound track and train running towards Lakeside on the Eastbound track, these two trains ran slowly as it passed a wrong signal, reverse mode were used to run on a wrong direction on the wrong track.

Exits

• A: Boon Lay Way, Jurong Spring
• B: Yuan Ching Secondary School
• C: Boon Lay Way, Taman Jurong, Jurong Lake

Station layout

L2	Platform A	East West Line towards  EW1  Pasir Ris via  EW25  Chinese Garden (→)
	Island platform, doors will open on the right
	Platform B	East West Line towards  EW29  Joo Koon via  EW27  Boon Lay (←)
L1	EWL Concourse	Faregates, Ticketing Machines, Station Control
	Street Level, Shops

Transport connections

Rail

Destination	First Train				Last Train
	Mon – Sat		Sunday & Public Holiday		Daily
East West Line
to EW1 Pasir Ris	5.38am		6.08am		11.40pm
to EW29 Joo Koon	5.19am		5.49am		12.29am

Gallery

• 
  Platform level of Lakeside MRT station, before Platform Screen Doors install.
• 
  The old Singapore MRT map before the 1990s, Lakeside was a terminal station

References

1. Wong, Siew Ying (January 26, 2008). "Above-ground MRT stations to have platform screen doors by 2012". Channel NewsAsia. Retrieved February 1, 2012.

External links

• Official website