Beauty World MRT Station

DT5  Beauty World MRT Station 美世界地铁站 பியூட்டி வேர்ல்ட் Stesen MRT Beauty World
Rapid transit
Beauty World MRT Station exit at night
Location	101 Upper Bukit Timah Road Singapore 588216
Coordinates	1°20′28″N 103°46′33″E / 1.341133°N 103.775797°E
Operated by	SBS Transit DTL
Line(s)	Downtown Line
Platforms	Island
Tracks	2
Connections	Bus, Taxi
Construction
Structure type	Underground
Platform levels	2
Disabled access	Yes
Other information
Station code	DT5
History
Opened	27 December 2015
Services
Preceding station   Mass Rapid Transit   Following station Hillview towards Bukit Panjang Downtown Line King Albert Park towards Chinatown
Location

Beauty World MRT Station (DT5) is an underground Mass Rapid Transit station on the Downtown Line Stage 2 in Singapore, formerly known as the Bukit Timah Line. The station will serve the Bukit Timah and Upper Bukit Timah corridor, serving the commercial areas in the vicinity. Major buildings in the area includes Bukit Timah Shopping Centre, Beauty World Centre and Beauty World Plaza. It is near to Toh Yi Estate and Ngee Ann Polytechnic.^[1]

History

The Land Transport Authority has awarded the contract for the construction of Beauty World station and associated tunnels (Contract 916) to McConnell Dowell S.E.A. Pte Ltd on 25 March 2009, valued at S$339,879,555.00.^[2]

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, will tunnel the 1 km stretch from Beauty World to King Albert Park.^[3] The section of track between Hillview and Beauty World is the longest on the Downtown Line.

Part of the construction process was shown on an episode of Behind Every Job 2 on MediaCorp's Channel 8.

Label of Beauty World MRT station in Singapore

Beauty World MRT Exit B with public transport symbol

Beauty World MRT Platform

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 demolishing of the park in the 1980s.

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.

Station layout

L1	Street Level
B1	Concourse	Faregates, Ticketing Machines, Station Control, Transitlink Counter
B2	Platform B	Downtown Line towards  DT19  NE4  Chinatown via  DT6  King Albert Park (→)
	Island platform, doors will open on the right
	Platform A	Downtown Line towards  DT1  BP6  Bukit Panjang via  DT3  Hillview (←)

Exits

• A: Beauty World Centre, Bukit Timah Nature Reserve, Bukit Timah Shopping Centre, UOB Centre
• B: Bukit Timah Tua Pek Kong Temple, Kilat Centre, JK Building
• C: Bukit Timah Market & Food Centre, Bukit Timah Community Club, Ngee Ann Polytechnic

Transport connections

Rail

Destination	First Train				Last Train
	Mon – Sat		Sunday & Public Holiday		Daily
Downtown Line
to DT1 Bukit Panjang	6.09am		6.30am		12.40am
to DT19 Chinatown	5.37am		5.57am		11.42pm

References

1. "Alignment of DTL and DTL 2 and maps of DTL 2 stations" (PDF). Land Transport Authority. Retrieved 2008-07-16.
2. "Contract 916 Tender Information". Land Transport Authority.
3. "Downtown Line 2 Tunnelling Works Begin at Beauty World Station". Land Transport Authority.