Gali Batu Depot is a train depot located off Woodlands Road

Woodlands, Singapore

Woodlands, or the Woodlands New Town , is a suburban town in northern Singapore, part of the North West Community Development Council district...

 in Singapore

Singapore

Singapore , officially the Republic of Singapore, is a Southeast Asian city-state off the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula, north of the equator. An island country made up of 63 islands, it is separated from Malaysia by the Straits of Johor to its north and from Indonesia's Riau Islands by the...

. It will provide maintenance services for the upcoming Downtown MRT Line

Downtown MRT Line

The Downtown Line will be the fifth Mass Rapid Transit line in Singapore. When completed, the line will be about 42-km long with 34 stations and serve about half a million commuters daily, making it the longest underground and driverless MRT line in Singapore. Travelling from one end to the other...

 of the Mass Rapid Transit

Mass Rapid Transit (Singapore)

The Mass Rapid Transit or MRT is a rapid transit system that forms the backbone of the railway system in Singapore, spanning the entire city-state. The initial section of the MRT, between Yio Chu Kang Station and Toa Payoh Station, opened in 1987 establishing itself as the second-oldest metro...

 system, and is directly linked to Bukit Panjang MRT Station. Construction of the 21 hectare at grade depot will start in the first quarter of 2009 and be completed by 2015.

As part of the construction which started in December 2008, 1,957 graves on part of the Kwong Hou Sua Teochew Cemetery had to be exhumed.

External links

• Site Map of Downtown Line Depot
• LTA unveils locations of DTL stage 2 stations