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{{Infobox/Station
{{Infobox/Station
|Code={{Code|2|NEL|NE7|DTL|DT12}}
|TA1=RNE|TA2=RDT
|Code={{Code/S|NE7|NEL|rr=0|br=none}}{{Code/S|DT12|DTL|rl=0|bl=none}}
|Name=Little India<br>小印度<br>லிட்டில் இந்தியா
|Name=Little India<br>小印度<br>லிட்டில் இந்தியா
|Img=[[File:Little India-NEL.png|centre|300px]][[File:Little India-DTL.png|centre|300px]]
|Img=[[File:Little India-NEL.png|centre|300px]][[File:Little India-DTL.png|centre|300px]]
|Info=
|Info=
  {{Infoline|Address|60 Bukit Timah Road<br>62 Bukit Timah Road<br>Singapore 229900/229902}}
  {{Infoline|Address (NEL)|60 Bukit Timah Road<br>Singapore 229900}}
{{Infoline|Address (DTL)|62 Bukit Timah Road<br>Singapore 229902}}
  {{Infoline|Line(s)|{{NEL}}<br>{{DTL}}}}
  {{Infoline|Line(s)|{{NEL}}<br>{{DTL}}}}
  {{Infoline|Connections|[[File:Bus Logo.png|25px|link=|alt=Bus]] [[File:Taxi Logo.png|25px|link=|alt=Taxi]]}}
{{Infoline|Structure|Underground}}
  {{Infoline|Connections|{{Icon|Bus|B|25px|o={{CSS/BUS|s=|f=}}|a=Bus|d=inline}} {{Icon|Taxi|W|25px|o={{CSS/LTA|s=|f=}}|a=Taxi|d=inline}}}}
  {{Infoline|Abbreviation|LTI}}
  {{Infoline|Abbreviation|LTI}}
}}
}}


'''Little India (NE7/DT12)''' is an underground [[Mass Rapid Transit]] (MRT) station on the {{NEL}} and the {{DTL}}.
'''Little India (NE7/DT12)''' is a [[Mass Rapid Transit]] (MRT) station on the {{NEL}} and the {{DTL}}.


==History==
==History==
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!width=150|Date!!Event
!width=150|Date!!Event
|-
|-
|20 June 2003||Station officially opens
|20 June 2003||Station officially opened
|-
|-
|27 December 2015||Station interchanges with Downtown Line
|27 December 2015||Station interchanged with {{DTL}}
|}
|}


===Train disruptions===
===Construction fire===
On 20 December 2012, train services on the North East Line was delayed due to a train fault. A statement from SBS Transit said there was no train service between {{Stn|Punggol}} and Little India due to a train fault. At about 5.18 pm, all train services resumed.<ref>[//www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/singaporelocalnews/view/1243747/1/.html "Train service disrupted on NEL due to train fault"]. Channel NewsAsia. Retrieved 20 December 2012.</ref><ref>[//www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/singaporelocalnews/view/1243751/1/.html "Train service on NEL resumes after disruption"]. Channel NewsAsia. Retrieved 20 December 2012.</ref>
No one was injured in a fire that broke out at a {{DTL|b=}} worksite along Race Course Road on the evening of 26 March 2014. The Land Transport Authority (LTA) told that a "small fire" had broken out at a "localised area" within the worksite. "There is also no impact to DTL2 construction progress," added a spokesperson for the LTA, who added that the fire was put out by 10pm, after it first broke out about half an hour earlier.<ref>[//sg.news.yahoo.com/no-injuries-in-fire-at-downtown-line-worksite-in-little-india-160351202.html "No injuries in fire at Downtown Line worksite in Little India"]. Yahoo news.</ref>


===Fire at Downtown MRT Line construction site===
==Artworks==
No one was injured in a fire that broke out at a Downtown Line worksite along Race Course Road on the evening of 26 March 2014. The Land Transport Authority (LTA) told that a “small fire” had broken out at a “localised area” within the worksite of the Downtown Line Little India MRT station and had been put out by 10pm, after it first broke out about half an hour earlier.<ref>[//sg.news.yahoo.com/no-injuries-in-fire-at-downtown-line-worksite-in-little-india-160351202.html "No injuries in fire at Downtown Line worksite in Little India"]. Yahoo. Retrieved 27 March 2014.</ref>
*[[File:NE7-Memoirs of the Past.png|300px]]<br>{{NEL}}: ''Memoirs of the Past'' by S. Chandrasekaran<br>This series of evocative, sepia-toned works celebrate Indian culture through traditional Indian folk art forms and elaborate bronze and granite floor works. Stylised animal paintings adorn the walls, alluding to the buffalo stables that gave the surrounding area its local name.<ref name='AiT'>[//www.lta.gov.sg/content/ltagov/en/getting_around/public_transport/a_better_public_transport_experience/art_in_transit.html "Art in Transit"]. Land Transport Authority.</ref>
 
*[[File:DT12-Woven Field.png|300px]]<br>{{DTL}}: ''Woven Field'' by Grace Tan<br>The glimmering installation of geometric patterns made of aluminium was inspired by the patterns in traditional Indian saris. The tessellated triangular patterns also integrate the notion of weaving, interlacing the architecture and artwork to form a single entity.<ref name='AiT'/>
==Art in Transit==
'''North East Line''': ''Memoirs of the Past'' by S. Chandrasekaran, depicts the past of Little India when buffalo stables were seen.<br>
'''Downtown Line''': ''Woven Field'' by Grace Tan, features a landscape of tessellated triangular configurations inspired by the singhaulia woven patterns commonly seen in the traditional sari.


==Layout==
==Layout==
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|-
|-
|Transfer Linkway
|Transfer Linkway
|between [[North East Line]] Concourse and [[Downtown Line]] Concourse
|between {{NEL}} Concourse and {{DTL}} Concourse
|-
|-
|Platform A||{{RailRoute/1|NEL|right|{{Code|2|NEL|NE7|DTL|DT12}}<br>{{Stn|Little India}}|{{NE1}}}}
|colspan=2|
{| class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed" style="width:100%;"
!{{Layout/Platform|A|NEL}}
|style='padding-right:.5em;'|{{Layout/Arrow|NEL|0}} {{Layout/Station|NE1}}
|style='padding-left:.5em;border-left:1px solid;width:200px'|'''Service Map'''
|-
|colspan=3|
<div style='overflow-x:scroll;white-space:nowrap;max-width:75vw;'>
{{Layout/Map|NE7|#000|#fff|c=NEL}} {{Layout/Map|NE6|c=NEL}} {{Layout/Map|NE5|c=NEL}} {{Layout/Map|NE4|c=NEL}} {{Layout/Map|NE3|c=NEL}} {{Layout/Map|NE1|c=NEL|r=}}
</div>
|}
|-
|-
|colspan=2 class="platform"|Platform A/B
|colspan=2 class="platform"|Platform A/B
|-
|-
|Platform B||{{RailRoute/1|NEL|left|{{NE17}}|{{Code|2|NEL|NE7|DTL|DT12}}<br>{{Stn|Little India}}}}
|colspan=2|
{| class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed" style="width:100%;"
!{{Layout/Platform|B|NEL}}
|style='padding-right:.5em;'|{{Layout/Arrow|NEL|180}} {{Layout/Station|NE17}}
|style='padding-left:.5em;border-left:1px solid;width:200px'|'''Service Map'''
|-
|colspan=3|
<div style='overflow-x:scroll;white-space:nowrap;max-width:75vw;'>
{{Layout/Map|NE17|c=NEL}} {{Layout/Map|NE16|c=NEL}} {{Layout/Map|NE15|c=NEL}} {{Layout/Map|NE14|c=NEL}} {{Layout/Map|NE13|c=NEL}} {{Layout/Map|NE12|c=NEL}} {{Layout/Map|NE11|c=NEL}} {{Layout/Map|NE10|c=NEL}} {{Layout/Map|NE9|c=NEL}} {{Layout/Map|NE8|c=NEL}} {{Layout/Map|NE7|#000|#fff|c=NEL|r=}}
</div>
|}
|-
|-
!rowspan=3|B3
!rowspan=3|B3
|Platform A||{{RailRoute/1|DTL|right|{{Code|2|DTL|DT12|NEL|NE7}}<br>{{Stn|Little India}}|{{DT1}}}}
|colspan=2|
{| class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed" style="width:100%;"
!{{Layout/Platform|A|DTL}}
|style='padding-right:.5em;'|{{Layout/Arrow|DTL|0}} {{Layout/Station|DT1}}
|style='padding-left:.5em;border-left:1px solid;width:200px'|'''Service Map'''
|-
|colspan=3|
<div style='overflow-x:scroll;white-space:nowrap;max-width:75vw;'>
{{Layout/Map|DT12|#000|#fff|c=DTL}} {{Layout/Map|DT11|c=DTL}} {{Layout/Map|DT10|c=DTL}} {{Layout/Map|DT9|c=DTL}} {{Layout/Map|DT8|c=DTL}} {{Layout/Map|DT7|c=DTL}} {{Layout/Map|DT6|c=DTL}} {{Layout/Map|DT5|c=DTL}} {{Layout/Map|DT3|c=DTL}} {{Layout/Map|DT2|c=DTL}} {{Layout/Map|DT1|c=DTL|r=}}
</div>
|}
|-
|-
|colspan=2 class="platform"|Platform A/B
|colspan=2 class="platform"|Platform A/B
|-
|-
|Platform B||{{RailRoute/2|DTL|left|{{DT35}}|{{DT16}}|{{Code|2|DTL|DT12|NEL|NE7}}<br>{{Stn|Little India}}}}
|colspan=2|
{| class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed" style="width:100%;"
!{{Layout/Platform|B|DTL}}
|style='padding-right:.5em;'|{{Layout/Arrow|DTL|180}} {{Layout/Station|DT35}}
|style='padding-left:.5em;border-left:1px solid;width:200px'|'''Service Map'''
|-
|colspan=3|
<div style='overflow-x:scroll;white-space:nowrap;max-width:75vw;'>
{{Layout/Map|DT35|c=DTL}} {{Layout/Map|DT34|c=DTL}} {{Layout/Map|DT33|c=DTL}} {{Layout/Map|DT32|c=DTL}} {{Layout/Map|DT31|c=DTL}} {{Layout/Map|DT30|c=DTL}} {{Layout/Map|DT29|c=DTL}} {{Layout/Map|DT28|c=DTL}} {{Layout/Map|DT27|c=DTL}} {{Layout/Map|DT26|c=DTL}} {{Layout/Map|DT25|c=DTL}} {{Layout/Map|DT24|c=DTL}} {{Layout/Map|DT23|c=DTL}} {{Layout/Map|DT22|c=DTL}} {{Layout/Map|DT21|c=DTL}} {{Layout/Map|DT20|c=DTL}} {{Layout/Map|DT19|c=DTL}} {{Layout/Map|DT18|c=DTL}} {{Layout/Map|DT17|c=DTL}} {{Layout/Map|DT16|c=DTL}} {{Layout/Map|DT15|c=DTL}} {{Layout/Map|DT14|c=DTL}} {{Layout/Map|DT13|c=DTL}} {{Layout/Map|DT12|#000|#fff|c=DTL|r=}}
</div>
|}
|}
|}


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|D||{{WAB}}||style="text-align:left;"|Race Course Road, Land Transport Authority Building
|D||{{WAB}}||style="text-align:left;"|Race Course Road, Land Transport Authority Building
|-
|-
|E|| ||style="text-align:left;"|Buffalo Road
|E||{{NWAB}}||style="text-align:left;"|Buffalo Road
|-
|-
|F||{{WAB}}||style="text-align:left;"|Bukit Timah Road, Land Transport Authority Building
|F||{{WAB}}||style="text-align:left;"|Bukit Timah Road, Land Transport Authority Building
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!width=70|Mon − Fri!!width=70|Sat!!width=70|Sun & P.H.!!width=70|Daily
!width=70|Mon − Fri!!width=70|Sat!!width=70|Sun & P.H.!!width=70|Daily
|-
|-
!colspan=5 class="NEL" style="text-align:center;"|[[File:MRTFFF.png|20px|link=|alt=]] North East Line
!colspan=5 style="{{CSS/NEL|s=|t=}}text-align:center;"|{{Icon|MRT|W|20px|d=inline}} {{NEL|style={{CSS/NEL|bg=none|s=|t=}}}}
{{MRTTime|NEL|NE1|HarbourFront|06:04|06:03|06:24|23:50}}
{{Timing|NE1||06:04|06:05|06:25|23:50|nv=}}
{{MRTTime|NEL|NE17|Punggol|05:56|06:11|06:31|00:06}}
{{Timing|NE17||05:56|05:56|06:16|00:07|nv=}}
|-
|-
!colspan=5 class="DTL" style="text-align:center;"|[[File:MRTFFF.png|20px|link=|alt=]] Downtown Line
!colspan=5 style="{{CSS/DTL|s=|t=}}text-align:center;"|{{Icon|MRT|W|20px|d=inline}} {{DTL|style={{CSS/DTL|bg=none|s=|t=}}}}
{{MRTTime|DTL|DT1|Bukit Panjang|06:07|06:07|06:30|00:24}}
{{Timing|DT1||06:06|06:06|06:30|00:26|nv=}}
{{MRTTime|DTL|DT35|Expo|05:53|05:53|06:13|23:59}}
{{Timing|DT35||05:53|05:53|06:13|23:57|nv=}}
|}
|}


===Bus===
===Bus===
{|class="wikitable"
:''More travel information: [[Alternative Travel Method/Little India|Alternative Travel Method]]''
{|class="wikitable"
!width=240|Bus Stop!!width=30|Exit!!width=300|Bus Service
!width=240|Bus Stop!!width=30|Exit!!width=300|Bus Service
{{BusGuide|40019|Little India Stn|B/D}}{{Bus|48|SBST}} {{Bus|56|SBST}} {{Bus|57|SBST}} {{Bus|66|TTS}} {{Bus|67|SMRT}} {{Bus|131|SBST}} {{Bus|166|SBST}} {{Bus|170|SBST}} {{Bus|851|SBST}} {{Bus|851e|SBST}} {{Bus|960|SMRT}} {{Bus|960e|SMRT}} {{Bus|980|SMRT}}
{{BusGuide|{{BS40019}}| {{Exit/Cell|B}} {{Exit/Cell|D}} }}{{Bus/48}} {{Bus/56}} {{Bus/57}} {{Bus/67}} {{Bus/131}} {{Bus/166}} {{Bus/170}} {{Bus/851}} {{Bus/851|a=e}} {{Bus/960}} {{Bus/960|a=e}} {{Bus/980}}
{{BusGuide|40011|Little India Stn Exit A|A}}{{Bus|1N|SBST}} {{Bus|3N|SBST}} {{Bus|5N|SBST}} {{Bus|6N|SBST}} {{Bus|48|SBST}} {{Bus|56|SBST}} {{Bus|57|SBST}} {{Bus|66|TTS}} {{Bus|67|SMRT}} {{Bus|166|SBST}} {{Bus|170|SBST}} {{Bus|170A|SBST}} {{Bus|851|SBST}} {{Bus|851e|SBST}} {{Bus|960|SMRT}} {{Bus|960e|SMRT}} {{Bus|980|SMRT}}
{{BusGuide|{{BS40011}}| {{Exit/Cell|A}} }}{{Bus/48}} {{Bus/56}} {{Bus/57}} {{Bus/67}} {{Bus/166}} {{Bus/170}} {{Bus/851}} {{Bus/851|a=e}} {{Bus/960}} {{Bus/960|a=e}} {{Bus/980}}
|}
|}



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NE7DT12
Little India
小印度
லிட்டில் இந்தியா
Little India-NEL.png
Little India-DTL.png
*Graphic From SGTrains/Wikipedia/LTA
Statistics
Address (NEL) 60 Bukit Timah Road
Singapore 229900
Address (DTL) 62 Bukit Timah Road
Singapore 229902
Line(s) North East Line
Downtown Line
Structure Underground
Connections Bus Taxi
Abbreviation LTI

Little India (NE7/DT12) is a Mass Rapid Transit (MRT) station on the North East Line and the Downtown Line.

History[edit]

Date Event
20 June 2003 Station officially opened
27 December 2015 Station interchanged with Downtown Line

Construction fire[edit]

No one was injured in a fire that broke out at a Downtown Line worksite along Race Course Road on the evening of 26 March 2014. The Land Transport Authority (LTA) told that a "small fire" had broken out at a "localised area" within the worksite. "There is also no impact to DTL2 construction progress," added a spokesperson for the LTA, who added that the fire was put out by 10pm, after it first broke out about half an hour earlier.[1]

Artworks[edit]

  • NE7-Memoirs of the Past.png
    North East Line: Memoirs of the Past by S. Chandrasekaran
    This series of evocative, sepia-toned works celebrate Indian culture through traditional Indian folk art forms and elaborate bronze and granite floor works. Stylised animal paintings adorn the walls, alluding to the buffalo stables that gave the surrounding area its local name.[2]
  • DT12-Woven Field.png
    Downtown Line: Woven Field by Grace Tan
    The glimmering installation of geometric patterns made of aluminium was inspired by the patterns in traditional Indian saris. The tessellated triangular patterns also integrate the notion of weaving, interlacing the architecture and artwork to form a single entity.[2]

Layout[edit]

L1 Street Level
B1 NEL Concourse Faregates, Ticketing Machines, Passenger Service Centre
B2 DTL Concourse Faregates, Ticketing Machines, Passenger Service Centre
Transfer Linkway between North East Line Concourse and Downtown Line Concourse
APlatform NE1HarbourFront Service Map
Platform A/B
BPlatform NE17Punggol Service Map
B3
APlatform DT1Bukit Panjang Service Map
Platform A/B
BPlatform DT35Expo Service Map

Exits[edit]

Exit Disabled-Access Location/Nearby
A Handicapped/disabled access Bukit Timah Road, Mackenzie Road
B Handicapped/disabled access Bukit Timah Road
C Handicapped/disabled access Tekka Market
D Handicapped/disabled access Race Course Road, Land Transport Authority Building
E No Handicapped/disabled access Buffalo Road
F Handicapped/disabled access Bukit Timah Road, Land Transport Authority Building

Transport Services[edit]

First/Last Train Timing[edit]

Destination First Train Last Train
Mon − Fri Sat Sun & P.H. Daily
icon North East Line
NE1HarbourFront 06:04 06:05 06:25 23:50
NE17Punggol 05:56 05:56 06:16 00:07
icon Downtown Line
DT1Bukit Panjang 06:06 06:06 06:30 00:26
DT35Expo 05:53 05:53 06:13 23:57

Bus[edit]

More travel information: Alternative Travel Method
Bus Stop Exit Bus Service
Little India Stn icon40019
Bt Timah Rd
B D
48
56
57
67
131
166
170
851
851e
960
960e
980
Little India Stn Exit A icon40011
Bt Timah Rd
A
48
56
57
67
166
170
851
851e
960
960e
980

References[edit]

icon North East Line [ VTE ]
Stations HarbourFrontOutram ParkChinatownClarke QuayDhoby GhautLittle IndiaFarrer ParkBoon KengPotong PasirWoodleighSerangoonKovanHougangBuangkokSengkangPunggol
North East Line extension: Punggol Coast
Rolling Stock 751A751C851E
Depots Sengkang
Others Bridging Service
icon Downtown Line [ VTE ]
Stations Bukit PanjangCashewHillviewHumeBeauty WorldKing Albert ParkSixth AvenueTan Kah KeeBotanic GardensStevensNewtonLittle IndiaRochorBugisPromenadeBayfrontDowntownTelok AyerChinatownFort CanningBencoolenJalan BesarBendemeerGeylang BahruMattarMacPhersonUbiKaki BukitBedok NorthBedok ReservoirTampines WestTampinesTampines EastUpper ChangiExpo
DTL3eXilinSungei Bedok
Rolling Stock 951
Depots Gali BatuKim ChuanEast Coast
Others Bridging Service