Bishan station

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Template:Code/2 Bishan 碧山 பீஷான் *Graphic From SGTrains/Wikipedia/LTA
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Address	200 Bishan Road 17 Bishan Place Singapore 579827/579842
Line(s)	North–South Line Circle Line
Structure	Underground
Connections	File:Bus Logo.png File:Taxi Logo.png
Abbreviation	BSH

Bishan (NS17/CC15) is a Mass Rapid Transit (MRT) station on the North–South Line and the Circle Line. Before peak period, some trains from Bishan Depot will arrive at platform B of the North–South Line station to travel southbound towards Marina South Pier.

History

Date	Event
7 November 1987	Station officially opened
28 May 2009	Station interchanged with Circle Line

2004 incidents

On 28 July 2004, a 31 year old accountant died after falling on the track in front of an oncoming train at this station, disrupting northbound train services for an hour. Another such incident happened to an elderly man on 15 September that year.

Modification of station for Circle Line linkage

Major alterations were performed on the original North–South Line station to be linked to the Circle Line. A new air-conditioned southbound platform to serve the southbound trains (heading towards Marina Bay) was officially opened on 27 July 2008. The original platform is now dedicated to only northbound train services (heading towards Jurong East). A wall now separates the southbound tracks and the northbound platform, and southbound train doors no longer open on the right towards the old platform.

2017 tunnel flooding

On 7 October 2017, water got into a section of the tunnel between Bishan and Braddell stations during a heavy downpour in the afternoon, which disrupted train services between Ang Mo Kio and Marina South Pier for several hours. This case of water entering MRT tunnels is believed to be the first time it has affected train service. Separately, at about 5.55pm, a small fire was spotted trackside in the tunnel between the Raffles Place and Marina Bay stations, but it had died down by itself. It is not clear if it is linked to the flood, although electrical short circuits caused by water had sparked tunnel fires before. Train services between Newton and Marina South Pier were restored on the day itself at about 9.20pm while full train service resumed at 1.36pm the following day after overnight efforts to clear the water in the tunnel. It was revealed that the overflowing in the tunnel was caused by a malfunction in the water pumping system, which has since been repaired.

Artworks

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  Circle Line: Move! by Soh Ee Shaun
  The densely packed murals depict the artist’s feelings about the mindless rush of commuters in a train station. The three murals depicting daily life, family and the heartlands with a whimsical twist – students fly to school on rockets and animal-headed executives are rushing to work in a surreal world.

Cultural impact

Being located on the former site of the Peck San Theng cemetery, the station is rumoured to be haunted, and has been the subject of several urban legends, as well as the site for alleged ghost encounters. A 1988 article in The New Paper mentioned rumoured sightings of headless ghosts at the station.

Straits Times ran an article debunking an urban legend associated with the station, along with an article featuring an account by a passenger who claimed that, while riding on a train passing through the station one morning in the early 1990s, she was groped by several unseen hands before passing out. She was later revived by fellow passengers. There are also other alleged encounters of ghosts and other entities by several passengers in and around the station, such as headless figures, footsteps coming from the roof of the train, and phantom passengers who do not cast reflections on the train windows.

Layout

L1	Street Level	Junction 8, Bishan Bus Interchange
	NSL Concourse	Faregates, Ticketing Machines, Passenger Service Centre, Transitlink Ticket Office
B1	Template:Route/2
	Platform A
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	Platform B
B2	Transfer Linkway	between North–South Line Platforms and Circle Line Concourse
	CCL Concourse	Faregates, Ticketing Machines, Passenger Service Centre
B3	Template:Route/3
	Platform A/B
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Exits

Exit	Disabled-Access	Location/Nearby
A		Junction 8, Bishan Bus Interchange, Bishan Public Library
B		Bishan Road, Bishan Street 14
C		Bishan Road, Bishan Street 11
D		Bishan Bus Interchange, Bishan Community Centre, Bishan-Toa Payoh Town Council (Branch Office)
E		Junction 8 Basement

Transport Services

First/Last Train Timing

Destination	First Train			Last Train
	Mon − Fri	Sat	Sun & P.H.	Daily
File:MRTFFF.png North–South Line
NS1Jurong East	06:08	06:23	06:29	00:14
NS7Kranji	–	–	–	00:30
NS28Marina South Pier	05:37	05:37	06:02	23:34
NS19Toa Payoh	–	–	–	00:16
File:MRT000.png Circle Line
CC1Dhoby Ghaut	05:40	05:40	06:07	23:35
CC7Mountbatten	–	–	–	00:12
CC12Bartley	–	–	–	00:36
CC29HarbourFront	05:23	05:23	05:47	23:18
CC26Pasir Panjang	–	–	–	23:48
CC23one-north	–	–	–	00:04
CC17Caldecott	–	–	–	00:32

Bus

Bus Stop	Exit	Bus Service
53009	Bishan Int	50 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 410G 410W
53231	Bishan Stn	13 50 52 54 55 58 71 88 156
53239	Opp Bishan Stn	13 50 52 54 55 58 71 88 156 NR1