Orchard Boulevard MRT station


Orchard Boulevard MRT station is a future underground Mass Rapid Transit station on the Thomson–East Coast line situated at the boundary of River Valley and Orchard planning areas, Singapore. It will be located on the corner of Orchard Boulevard and Grange Road, near Camden Medical Centre, Singapore Tourism Board headquarters in Singapore Tourism Court and Traders Hotel. Expected to open in 2021, it will be located between the stations of Napier and Orchard.
The station will have 2 platforms, located in an island platform arrangement. Like all underground stations on the Singapore MRT, it will have full-height platform screen doors to contain air conditioning, and for safety purposes. These will be manufactured by GE Transportation, like all doors on the Thomson–East Coast line. There will be a mezzanine area of the station, where ticket machines, faregates, an information booth, and toilets will be located. Of the two exits this station will have, one will be built along Orchard Boulevard, with another on Grange Road next to the Tourism Court.

History

This station was first announced on 29 August 2012.
On 15 August 2014, LTA announced that Orchard Boulevard station would be part of the proposed Thomson East-Coast line. The station will be constructed as part of Phase 3, consisting of 13 stations between Mount Pleasant and Gardens by the Bay, and is expected to be completed in 2021.
The Contract T218 for the design and construction of Orchard Boulevard Station was awarded to KTC Civil Engineering & Construction Pte Ltd at a sum of S$143 million in May 2014. Construction will start in 2014, with completion in 2021.