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Somerset MRT Station
Preceding station Mass Rapid Transit Following station
Orchard North South Line Dhoby Ghaut
towards Jurong East towards Marina Bay
NS23
Somerset MRT Station
索美塞地铁站
சாமர்ெசட்
Stesen MRT Somerset
Rapid transit
Somerset MRT Station
Platform of NS23 Somerset MRT station
Station statistics
Address 1 Somerset Road
Singapore 238162
Coordinates 1°18′1.85″N 103°50′20.50″E / 1.3005139°N
103.839028°E / 1.3005139; 103.839028
Entrance to Somerset station before the construction of
Lines North South Line 313@Somerset.
Connections Bus, Taxi
Somerset MRT Station (NS23) is an underground sta-
Structure Underground tion on the North South Line of the Mass Rapid Transit in
Levels 2 Singapore, located under 313@Somerset Shopping Cen-
tre between Orchard Road and Somerset Road. It was up-
Platforms Island graded in 2002, the first phase of station upgrading works
Tracks 2 on the system. Somerset MRT Station was named in ref-
erence to an English playwright, novelist and short sto-
Other information
ry writer, William Somerset Maugham.[citation needed] Dur-
Opened 12 December 1987 ing his years in Singapore of the 1930s, Maugham wrote
a series of stories on Malaya, Borneo and Singapore while
Accessible
staying at Raffles Hotel.
Code NS23 To commemorate Total Defence Day in 2000, the Sin-
gapore Civil Defence Force conducted the first ever Shel-
Services
ter Open House at this station on 15 and 16 February,
together with Tiong Bahru and Lavender stations.[citation
Location needed] The section of tracks between this station and
Dhoby Ghaut MRT Station is the shortest between any
two interchanges in Singapore and also between any two
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MRT Stations on the North South Line, it takes 1 minute 14 Clementi Bus Interchange
for a train to travel between these two stations.
16 Bukit Merah Bus Interchange
Shops 36 Tomlinson Road (loop)
• 7-Eleven 65 HarbourFront Bus Interchange
• Buzz Pod
111 Ghim Moh Bus Terminal
123 Bukit Merah Bus Interchange
Exits
• A – Comcentre, Singapore Power Building and Skate 124 Saint Michael’s Bus Terminal
Park 128 Ang Mo Kio Bus Depot
• B – 313@Somerset, Cathay Cineleisure Orchard, 143 Toa Payoh Bus Interchange
Centrepoint Shopping Centre, Meritus Mandarin
Singapore, The Heeren Shops, Faber House, Orchard 162 Yio Chu Kang Bus Terminal
Central, Orchard Point, Peranakan Place, Emerald
Hill and Orchard Plaza 162M Yio Chu Kang Bus Terminal
174 Boon Lay Bus Interchange
Train service 175 Clementi Bus Interchange
Destination First Train Last
Train SBS Transit Fast Forward Services
Mon - Sunday & Daily
14e Orchard Road
Sat Public Holi- 174e Boon Lay Bus Interchange
day SMRT Buses Trunk Services
North South Line 77 Bukit Batok Bus Interchange
to NS1 Jurong 6.08am 6.33am 11.54pm 106 Bukit Batok Bus Interchange
East
167 Sembawang Bus Interchange
to NS27 Marina 5.50am 6.16am 11.46pm
171 Yishun Bus Interchange
Bay
to NS7 Kranji - - 12.13am 190 Choa Chu Kang Bus Interchange
700 Bukit Panjang Bus Interchange
Current station layout 700A Bukit Panjang Bus Interchange
SMRT Buses Express Service
L1 Street 313@Somerset & Orchard Central
Level 971E Bukit Panjang Bus Interchange
B1 NSL Con- Faregates, Ticketing Machines, Station SMRT Buses NightRider Services
course Control NR1 Yishun Ring Road (loop)
B2 Platform North South Line towards NS1 EW24 NR2 Sembawang Drive (loop)
A Jurong East via NS9 Woodlands (→)
NR3 Choa Chu Kang Bus Interchange
Island platform, Doors open on the right
NR5 Jurong West Street 75 (loop)
Platform North South Line towards NS27 CE2
B Marina Bay (←) NR6 Resorts World Sentosa
NR7 Marina Centre Bus Terminal
Bus services NR8 Bukit Batok West Avenue 7 (loop)
The following bus services pass by the bus stops along
Somerset Road: Bomb hoax
Bus Stop Code: 08121 (Somerset Station) A call was made from a public telephone at the concourse
Service Destination Note of the station at about 5p.m. on September 26, 2007 about
SBS Transit Trunk Services a bomb at the station. The police have arrested a 21-year-
old man in connection with the incident two days later
7 Clementi Bus Interchange
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on the morning of September 28, 2007 after finding no 2007. http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/
bomb.[1] singaporelocalnews/view/302669/1/.html.
References
[1] "Police arrest 21-year-old man in connection with
bomb hoax call". Channel News Asia. 28 September
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