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 Bishan MRT Station (NS17/CC15) is a Singapore Mass Rapid Transit interchange station along the North South Line and the Circle Line that serves the Bishan community, especially that of Bishan East. The station is located in Central Singapore, along Bishan Road, close to the town centre of Bishan. It is often filled with students on weekdays in the afternoon as it serves the Ministry of Education Language Centre, a faculty of the Ministry of Education that allows secondary school and junior college students to study their second or third languages that are not available in their own schools. Some trains from Bishan Depot arrive at platform B of the station to travel southbound towards Marina Bay for evening peak period services. It is one of the five stations on the new Circle MRT Line that opened to the public on 28 May 2009[1]. Commuters will be able to transfer to the line via an underpass that links the Circle Line platform to the two separate platforms at the North South Line. It is exclusively operated by SMRT Corporation. At the Circle Line side of this station, Art in Transit sees three murals created by Soh Ee Shaun depicting landmarks that residents of Bishan can identify with.
[edit] Cultural impactBeing located at a former cemetery zone called Bi Shan Teng, the station is rumoured to be haunted, and has been the subject of several Singaporean urban legends, as well as the site for allegedly true encounters of ghosts. A local newspaper, The Sunday Times, once ran an article debunking an urban legend associated with the station, but it also ran alongside the article an account by a passenger who claimed that, while riding on a train passing through the station one morning in the early 1990s, she was groped by several unseen hands before passing out. She was later revived by fellow passengers. There are also other alleged encounters of ghosts and other entities by several passengers in and around the station, such as headless figures, footsteps being heard coming from the roof of the train, and phantom passengers that did not cast any reflections on the train windows. [edit] Circle Line linkage and changes to the stationConstruction was done for the station to be linked to the Circle Line. This would enable passengers to travel to the North-East region of Singapore by train without traveling to the city, i.e. the travelling time from Serangoon to Bishan is shortened to 5 minutes from 29 minutes on 28 May 2009. The Circle Line Station is perpendicular to the current North South Line station. The station is adjacent to the Junction 8 Shopping Centre and will be linked altogether through future expansion. A new air-conditioned southbound platform to serve the southbound train (heading towards Marina Bay Station) was opened on 27 July 2008. The original platform is now dedicated only to northbound train services (heading towards Jurong East via Woodlands). A wall now separate the southbound tracks and the northbound platform, and southbound train doors no longer open towards the old platform. The northbound platform was also upgraded with air conditioning and full height platform screen doors and was officially completed on 22 May 2009 when the air-conditioning was turned on and the platform screen doors started operation. Bishan is also one the two stations with a station exit located on a platform. When open, the Exit E in Bishan's Southbound platform will be the first of such exits, and will also make Bishan the second station to have faregates available on the same level as the platforms. [edit] Train Service
[edit] Current Station Layout
[edit] Bus servicesThe following bus services available at the bus stops outside Bishan station, along Bishan Road.
The following bus services are available at Bishan Bus Interchange, located a short distance from the station, and at the bus stops along Bishan Street 11.
[edit] Station vicinity
[edit] Incidents[edit] 2002 AccidentOn Nov 7 2002, a 10-year-old boy was taken to KK Women's and Children's Hospital in the evening, after being dragged by a southbound MRT train along the platform at Bishan MRT station. The child, Moses Tan, had a fractured right leg, a fractured right shoulder, bruises on his limbs and chest, and lacerations on his head after the incident. [edit] 2004 AccidentsA 31-year-old Chinese man Mr Joseph Tan, a resident of Kim Keat, was found trapped under a train and died after falling on the track in front of an oncoming train in Bishan MRT station at about 1pm on Jul 28 2004. The tragedy disrupted the northbound service between Toa Payoh and Ang Mo Kio MRT stations for about an hour. The second fatal accident at this station happened when a 74-year-old man, who was a resident of Toa Payoh died when he fell and was hit by an oncoming northbound train at Bishan MRT station in the afternoon of Sep 15 2004.[2] [edit] 2007 AccidentOn 4 March 2007, a man fell onto the tracks of the MRT station. A commuter on the platform pressed the emergency stop plunger and the train driver also braked in time. It was later reported that the man in question was high on drugs and slipped onto the tracks as a result. [edit] 2009 Train BreakdownWhen the Circle Line first opens on 28 May 2009, trains on both directions towards Bartley and Marymount were disrupted for 13 minutes when a train stopped in the tunnel between Lorong Chuan and Bishan at 2.41 pm. The train had to be manually moved to Bishan where passengers alighted. The defective train was pulled out from service.[3] [edit] References
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