Great World MRT station is an underground Mass Rapid Transit station on the Thomson-East Coast Line at the boundary of River Valley and Singapore River planning areas, Singapore.

TE15  Great World 大世界 கிரேட் வோர்ல்ட் Great World
Mass Rapid Transit (MRT) station
Ticket concourse and linkways level's interior of Great World MRT station
General information
Location	351 River Valley Road Singapore 238384
Coordinates	1°17′42″N 103°50′01″E
Owned by	Land Transport Authority
Operated by	SMRT Trains (SMRT Corporation)
Line(s)	Thomson–East Coast Line
Platforms	2 (1 island platform)
Construction
Structure type	Underground
Parking	Yes (Great World)
Disabled access	Yes
History
Opened	13 November 2022; 5 days ago (2022-11-13)[1]
Electrified	Yes
Previous names	Kim Seng, River Valley
Services
Preceding station Mass Rapid Transit Following station Orchard towards Woodlands North Thomson–East Coast Line Havelock towards Gardens by the Bay
Location
Great World Great World station in Singapore

The station is named after the nearby Great World shopping mall, which is in turn named after the Great World Amusement Park which formerly occupied its place.[2]

History

The station was first announced on 29 August 2012 as part of the Thomson line (TSL).[3][4] The contract for the design and construction of the station and associated tunnels was awarded to Tiong Seng Contractors and Dongah Geological Engineering (Singapore branch) as a joint venture at a sum of S$316 million in May 2014.[5] Three names were proposed for this station; 'Great World', 'Kim Seng' and 'River Valley'. On 27 June 2014, Great World was confirmed as the name of the station.[6]

On 15 August 2014, the Thomson and Eastern Region lines were merged to form the Thomson-East Coast line, with Great World station now part of Phase 3 consisting of 13 stations between Mount Pleasant and Gardens by the Bay stations.[7][8]

On 11 June 2015 at 10.40am, residents of Bukit Merah, Outram, Tanjong Pagar and Tiong Bahru were affected by an Internet outage due to construction works inadvertently damaging a section of fibre optic cables while carrying out piling works at Kim Seng Road. The disruption lasted more than eight hours and affected all the major Internet service providers in Singapore. In a separate statement, the Land Transport Authority apologised for the disruption.[9]

On 19 December 2015 at about 5.30 pm, a Bangladeshi construction worker was killed when the excavator's bucket dislodged and fell on him. The victim had been guiding an excavator prior to the accident. He was taken to Singapore General Hospital and was pronounced dead on arrival.[10]

With restrictions imposed on construction due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the TEL3 completion date was pushed by one year to 2022.[11] On 9 March 2022, Transport Minister S Iswaran announced in Parliament that TEL 3 would open in the second half of that year.[12]

As announced during a visit by Transport Minister S. Iswaran on 7 October 2022, the TEL station would open on 13 November 2022.[13][14][15] The station opened with only two entrances, 1 and 4; the rest of the entrances were delayed due to additional cut-and-cover works. This was necessitated by the discovery of underground steel beams and plates absent from historical records or ground surveys. Entrance 2 and 6, connecting to Great World, will open only at the end of 2022, while entrance 5 will open in 1Q 2023, and entrance 3 by the end of 2023 or in early 2024.[16]

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