Beauty World MRT station

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 DT5 
Beauty World
美世界
பியூட்டி வேர்ல்ட்
Mass Rapid Transit (MRT) station
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Exit C of Beauty World station
General information
Location101 Upper Bukit Timah Road
Singapore 588216
Coordinates 1°20′28″N103°46′33″E / 1.341133°N 103.775797°E / 1.341133; 103.775797
Operated by SBS Transit DTL (ComfortDelGro Corporation)
Line(s)
Platforms2 (1 island platform)
Tracks2
ConnectionsBus, Taxi
Construction
Structure typeUnderground
Platform levels1
AccessibleYes
History
Opened27 December 2015;8 years ago (2015-12-27)
ElectrifiedYes
Previous namesAnak Bukit, Seventh Mile
Passengers
June 202413,081 per day [1]
Services
Preceding station Mass Rapid Transit Following station
Hillview
towards Bukit Panjang
Downtown Line King Albert Park
towards Expo
Hume
towards Bukit Panjang
Downtown Line
Future service
Location
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Beauty World
Beauty World station in Singapore

Beauty World MRT station is an underground Mass Rapid Transit (MRT) station on the Downtown Line (DTL) in Bukit Timah, Singapore. Located along Upper Bukit Timah Road, this station took its name from the historic Beauty World Market, a former amusement park and market that once stood in the vicinity. Beauty World station primarily serves the residential estates along Jalan Jurong Kechil and Toh Yi Drive, as well as Beauty World Centre, Beauty World Plaza, and Bukit Timah Shopping Centre. It is also within walking distances to Ngee Ann Polytechnic, Pei Hwa Presbyterian Primary School, Bukit Timah Market & Food Centre, Bukit Timah Community Club, Bukit Timah Tua Pek Kong Temple, and Bee Low See Temple.

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The section of tracks between this station and Hillview MRT station is the longest between any two MRT stations on the Downtown Line, at least until 2025. There are basic structural provisions for a future station (also known as a "box station") along this section of tracks near Hume Avenue. [2] Hume MRT station was confirmed on 7 March 2019 and is to be operational by 2025.

History

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Platform level of the station

The station was first announced in July 2008 when the DTL2 stations were announced. [3] Contract 916 for the design and construction of Beauty World station and associated tunnels was awarded to McConnell Dowell S.E.A. Pte Ltd on 25 March 2009 at a contract sum of S$ 339.88 million ( US$ 233.67 million). [4] [5]

Tunnelling works began on 8 June 2011. Two tunnel boring machines — which were named Athena and Artemis, after the Greek goddesses by students of the nearby Pei Hwa Presbyterian Primary School — tunnelled the 1 kilometre (0.62 mi) stretch from Beauty World to King Albert Park. [6]

Station details

Beauty World Station is located between Hillview and King Albert Park stations on the Downtown Line. The official station code is DT5. [7] Being part of the Downtown Line, Beauty World station is operated by SBS Transit. [8] Beauty World Station is also a designated Civil Defence (CD) shelter. [9]

Exits

Etymology

The original name for "Beauty World" referred to an amusement park in the area. At that time, amusement parks were called "worlds": the others included Gay World, Great World (which Great World City now occupies), and New World. The amusement park was subsequently converted to a market after the end of World War II, and called Beauty World Market. However, fire hazards led to the subsequent demolition of the park in the 1980s.

The station was also named after the Beauty World Centre. Other names such as Anak Bukit and Seventh Mile were considered before the name Beauty World was selected.

Art in Transit

"Asemic Lines" by Boedi Widjaja is an artwork that presents the multi-cultural mix of language and invites viewers' aesthetic intuition to 'hover' between reading and looking. [10]

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