Sentosa Express
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- For the dismantled monorail system that used to loop Sentosa from 1982 to 2005, see Sentosa MonorailSentosa MonorailThe Sentosa Monorail was a monorail system which served as the main means of transportation on the island of Sentosa in Singapore...
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Sentosa Express is a monorail
Monorail
A monorail is a rail-based transportation system based on a single rail, which acts as its sole support and its guideway. The term is also used variously to describe the beam of the system, or the vehicles traveling on such a beam or track...
line connecting Sentosa
Sentosa
Sentosa, which translates to peace and tranquility in Malay , is a popular island resort in Singapore, visited by some five million people a year...
island to HarbourFront
HarbourFront
HarbourFront is a district situated in southern Singapore, within the Bukit Merah Planning Area. Harbourfront is also the gateway to Sentosa....
on the Singapore mainland across the waters.
Built at a cost of S$
Singapore dollar
The Singapore dollar or Dollar is the official currency of Singapore. It is normally abbreviated with the dollar sign $, or alternatively S$ to distinguish it from other dollar-denominated currencies...
140 million, development started in June 2003 and was completed in December 2006. The fully elevated 2.1-kilometre (1.3-mile; per direction) two-way line (4.3-km total track length) and three out of four stations opened on 15 January 2007. The fourth station, Waterfront
Waterfront Monorail Station
Waterfront Station is the second station of Sentosa Express monorail in Singapore. While a skeletal station structure was built for the initial opening of the line on 15 January 2007, it never opened to the public...
, opened on 1 February 2010.
The monorail system, privately owned and operated by Sentosa Development Corporation
Sentosa Development Corporation
Sentosa Development Corporation is a statutory board in Singapore, under the purview of the Ministry of Trade and Industry....
, can move up to 4,000 passengers per hour per direction
Passengers per hour per direction
Passengers per hour per direction or passengers per hour in peak direction is a transport-related term used to describe the capacity of a rapid transit or public transport system.-Directional flow:...
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As of Jul 14 2011, the Red train has the STARIS installed, using the same system utilised in the SMRT trains for the NSL and EWL.
Train timings
The daily first and last train timings of both SentosaSentosa Monorail Station
Sentosa Station is the first station along the Sentosa Express in Singapore. Located at third level of VivoCity, the northern terminus is just a few levels above HarbourFront MRT Station and the nearby HarbourFront Bus Interchange. It is the only air-conditioned station, the only station on...
and Beach
Beach Monorail Station
Beach Station is the fourth and last station along the Sentosa Express in Singapore. It is located between Siloso Beach and Palawan Beach in Sentosa...
termini are 07:00 and 00:00 hours. Trains run at an average frequency of three minutes during peak days. The entire route, from one terminus to the other, takes eight minutes.
Fare and ticketing
Singapore dollar
The Singapore dollar or Dollar is the official currency of Singapore. It is normally abbreviated with the dollar sign $, or alternatively S$ to distinguish it from other dollar-denominated currencies...
3 allows island entry and unlimited rides on the Sentosa Express. The contactless RFID card can be purchased from automated ticketing machines at any operational Sentosa Express station. Payment can be made using cash, NETS
Network for Electronic Transfers
The Network for Electronic Transfers Pte Ltd was founded in 1985 to operate and manage an online debit payment system pioneering Singapore's shift to a cashless society. It has since grown to a multi-service organisation, providing a comprehensive range of electronic payment services...
or credit card.
Alternatively, visitors may also scan their EZ-Link
EZ-Link
The EZ-Link card is a contactless smart card based on the Sony FeliCa smartcard technology and used for the payment of public transportation fares in Singapore, with limited use in the small payments retail sector...
cards (used for electronic payments on public transport
Public transport
Public transport is a shared passenger transportation service which is available for use by the general public, as distinct from modes such as taxicab, car pooling or hired buses which are not shared by strangers without private arrangement.Public transport modes include buses, trolleybuses, trams...
) on Sentosa Terminus
Sentosa Monorail Station
Sentosa Station is the first station along the Sentosa Express in Singapore. Located at third level of VivoCity, the northern terminus is just a few levels above HarbourFront MRT Station and the nearby HarbourFront Bus Interchange. It is the only air-conditioned station, the only station on...
' turnstiles for island entry payment and a day of unlimited number of rides on the monorail.
Stations
| Station name / colour code | Interchanges within vicinity | Opening | Past working name | ||
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| English English language English is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria... |
Chinese | Japanese Japanese language is a language spoken by over 130 million people in Japan and in Japanese emigrant communities. It is a member of the Japonic language family, which has a number of proposed relationships with other languages, none of which has gained wide acceptance among historical linguists .Japanese is an... |
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| Sentosa Sentosa Monorail Station Sentosa Station is the first station along the Sentosa Express in Singapore. Located at third level of VivoCity, the northern terminus is just a few levels above HarbourFront MRT Station and the nearby HarbourFront Bus Interchange. It is the only air-conditioned station, the only station on... |
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15 January 2007 | Gateway | ||
| Waterfront Waterfront Monorail Station Waterfront Station is the second station of Sentosa Express monorail in Singapore. While a skeletal station structure was built for the initial opening of the line on 15 January 2007, it never opened to the public... |
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1 February 2010 | Sentosa | ||
| Imbiah Imbiah Monorail Station Imbiah Station is the third station along the Sentosa Express in Singapore. Located in the middle of Sentosa, it is located along a minor road called Beach View and it is next to the giant Merlion... |
Bus A bus is a road vehicle designed to carry passengers. Buses can have a capacity as high as 300 passengers. The most common type of bus is the single-decker bus, with larger loads carried by double-decker buses and articulated buses, and smaller loads carried by midibuses and minibuses; coaches are... es (Red, Blue, Yellow Lines) |
15 January 2007 | Merlion | ||
| Beach Beach Monorail Station Beach Station is the fourth and last station along the Sentosa Express in Singapore. It is located between Siloso Beach and Palawan Beach in Sentosa... |
Bus A bus is a road vehicle designed to carry passengers. Buses can have a capacity as high as 300 passengers. The most common type of bus is the single-decker bus, with larger loads carried by double-decker buses and articulated buses, and smaller loads carried by midibuses and minibuses; coaches are... es (Blue and Yellow Lines) Sentosa Sentosa, which translates to peace and tranquility in Malay , is a popular island resort in Singapore, visited by some five million people a year... –mainland buses that shuttle between Beach Station Beach Monorail Station Beach Station is the fourth and last station along the Sentosa Express in Singapore. It is located between Siloso Beach and Palawan Beach in Sentosa... and HarbourFront Bus Interchange HarbourFront Bus Interchange The HarbourFront Bus Interchange is located at Seah Im Road by the HarbourFront MRT Station. It was formerly known as the World Trade Centre Bus Terminal and is operated by SBS Transit though there are as many SMRT bus services as there are SBS Transit bus services.Two shopping malls are near... Trackless train A trackless train is a road-going articulated vehicle used for the transport of passengers, comprising a driving vehicle pulling one or more carriages connected by drawbar couplings, in the manner of a road going railway train.-Terminology:Trackless train or land train... s (Siloso Beach and Palawan-Tanjong Beaches routes) |
15 January 2007 | Palawan | ||
S$
Singapore dollar
The Singapore dollar or Dollar is the official currency of Singapore. It is normally abbreviated with the dollar sign $, or alternatively S$ to distinguish it from other dollar-denominated currencies...
26 million was spent on the elevated stations and the depot next to Beach Terminus
Beach Monorail Station
Beach Station is the fourth and last station along the Sentosa Express in Singapore. It is located between Siloso Beach and Palawan Beach in Sentosa...
. Sentosa Terminus
Sentosa Monorail Station
Sentosa Station is the first station along the Sentosa Express in Singapore. Located at third level of VivoCity, the northern terminus is just a few levels above HarbourFront MRT Station and the nearby HarbourFront Bus Interchange. It is the only air-conditioned station, the only station on...
is the only station of the line on the mainland; the rest are on Sentosa Island. It also the only one with full-height platform screen doors
Platform screen doors
Platform screen doors and platform edge doors at train or subway stations screen the platform from the train. They are a relatively new addition to many metro systems around the world, with some platform doors retrofitted rather than installed with the metro system itself. They are widely used in...
and bay platform
Bay platform
Bay platform is a railway-related term commonly used in the UK and Australia to describe a dead-end platform at a railway station that has through lines...
using the Spanish solution
Spanish solution
The Spanish solution is a method of using two railway platforms, one on each side of the track, in order to speed up boarding and alighting from trains. Alighting passengers get off the train on one side and boarding passengers get on from the other...
. The other stations are not air-conditioned and are the first railway stations in the country to utilise Automatic platform gates.
The original Waterfront Station
Waterfront Monorail Station
Waterfront Station is the second station of Sentosa Express monorail in Singapore. While a skeletal station structure was built for the initial opening of the line on 15 January 2007, it never opened to the public...
did not open for service before being demolished in December 2007, less than a year after the monorail line's opening, to make way for the construction of Resorts World Sentosa. The station was rebuilt and opened on 1 February 2010.
Like 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...
, stations have bi-directional escalators and a lift
Elevator
An elevator is a type of vertical transport equipment that efficiently moves people or goods between floors of a building, vessel or other structures...
to take passengers from the station concourse to the platforms, except Sentosa Terminus
Sentosa Monorail Station
Sentosa Station is the first station along the Sentosa Express in Singapore. Located at third level of VivoCity, the northern terminus is just a few levels above HarbourFront MRT Station and the nearby HarbourFront Bus Interchange. It is the only air-conditioned station, the only station on...
which has both on the same level within VivoCity
VivoCity
VivoCity is the largest shopping mall in Singapore. Located in the HarbourFront precinct, it was designed by the Japanese architect Toyo Ito. Its name is derived from the word vivacity...
shopping centre on the mainland.
Station name signage and system map signage at the stations are in the three languages used by the majority of visitors—English
English language
English is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria...
, Chinese (simplified) and Japanese
Japanese language
is a language spoken by over 130 million people in Japan and in Japanese emigrant communities. It is a member of the Japonic language family, which has a number of proposed relationships with other languages, none of which has gained wide acceptance among historical linguists .Japanese is an...
(Katakana
Katakana
is a Japanese syllabary, one component of the Japanese writing system along with hiragana, kanji, and in some cases the Latin alphabet . The word katakana means "fragmentary kana", as the katakana scripts are derived from components of more complex kanji. Each kana represents one mora...
phoneticisation), hence the inclusion of Japanese
Japanese language
is a language spoken by over 130 million people in Japan and in Japanese emigrant communities. It is a member of the Japonic language family, which has a number of proposed relationships with other languages, none of which has gained wide acceptance among historical linguists .Japanese is an...
even though it is not one of the national official languages.
Rolling stock
The Sentosa Express is the first system to use HitachiHitachi Monorail
The Hitachi Monorail System refers to the family of monorails offered by Hitachi, Ltd.-List of notable Hitachi monorails:Hitachi's designs are ALWEG-based, and are available in three configurations:-Large:*Kitakyushu monorail, opened 1984...
's small- and straddle-type monorail with a capacity of about 184 passengers per train. With a total of six two-car, 25-metre-long trains of different colours each—namely green
Green
Green is a color, the perception of which is evoked by light having a spectrum dominated by energy with a wavelength of roughly 520–570 nanometres. In the subtractive color system, it is not a primary color, but is created out of a mixture of yellow and blue, or yellow and cyan; it is considered...
, orange
Orange (colour)
The colour orange occurs between red and yellow in the visible spectrum at a wavelength of about 585–620 nm, and has a hue of 30° in HSV colour space. It is numerically halfway between red and yellow in a gamma-compressed RGB colour space, the expression of which is the RGB colour wheel. The...
, blue
Blue
Blue is a colour, the perception of which is evoked by light having a spectrum dominated by energy with a wavelength of roughly 440–490 nm. It is considered one of the additive primary colours. On the HSV Colour Wheel, the complement of blue is yellow; that is, a colour corresponding to an equal...
, purple
Purple
Purple is a range of hues of color occurring between red and blue, and is classified as a secondary color as the colors are required to create the shade....
, pink
Pink
Pink is a mixture of red and white. Commonly used for Valentine's Day and Easter, pink is sometimes referred to as "the color of love." The use of the word for the color known today as pink was first recorded in the late 17th century....
and red
Red
Red is any of a number of similar colors evoked by light consisting predominantly of the longest wavelengths of light discernible by the human eye, in the wavelength range of roughly 630–740 nm. Longer wavelengths than this are called infrared , and cannot be seen by the naked eye...
; the pink and red trains were added to the original fleet of four only on 1 December 2009. Unlike the old, dismantled Sentosa Monorail
Sentosa Monorail
The Sentosa Monorail was a monorail system which served as the main means of transportation on the island of Sentosa in Singapore...
trains, the current trains are air-conditioned, have inter-car walk-through gangways and spaces for standing passengers, wheelchair
Wheelchair
A wheelchair is a chair with wheels, designed to be a replacement for walking. The device comes in variations where it is propelled by motors or by the seated occupant turning the rear wheels by hand. Often there are handles behind the seat for someone else to do the pushing...
s and strollers. Seats can also be flipped up to maximise standing space when required.
Operated by drivers and guided with Automatic Train Protection
Automatic Train Protection
Automatic Train Protection in Great Britain refers to either of two implementations of a train protection system installed in some trains in order to help prevent collisions through a driver's failure to observe a signal or speed restriction...
to ensure trains keep a safe distance between each other and Automatic Train Supervisory to provide the route setting for the train to travel, trains cruise at 15 to 50 km/h but is designed to speed up to 80 km/h.
See also
- SentosaSentosaSentosa, which translates to peace and tranquility in Malay , is a popular island resort in Singapore, visited by some five million people a year...
island - Sentosa MonorailSentosa MonorailThe Sentosa Monorail was a monorail system which served as the main means of transportation on the island of Sentosa in Singapore...
—a dismantled monorail system that used to ferry visitors around Sentosa from 1982 to 2005 - Rail transport in SingaporeRail transport in SingaporeRail transport in Singapore exists in three main types, namely an international rail connection operated by Malaysian company Keretapi Tanah Melayu , a rapid transit system collectively known as the Mass Rapid Transit system operated by the two biggest public transport operators SMRT Corporation...
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