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| A compilation of images of the completed Hume station in mid-February 2025. |
Hume station was the thirteenth station along stage 2 of the Downtown Line that was planned along the Bukit Timah section. However, at the time of stage 2's construction in 2009, the authorities had deemed ridership to be insufficient to warrant full construction of the station. Instead, a shell structure was built with the basic outline of the station - a box with roughed in provisions for ticket machines, escalators, lifts and stairs. No architectural elements such as cladding, platform screen doors or completed floors were included in the initial build-out, performed under contract 915.
Subsequently, in 2019, the government decided that several years after the line opened that ridership suddenly had grown sufficiently to warrant the full station's opening. This was despite there not being any new residential developments coming up within the vicinity of the station, providing a puzzling but nonetheless welcome move. In January 2021, contract 915A for the fit out and completion of the station was awarded and works began at the station in February that year. We recap the station's progress from shell structure to the nearly-completed station building that we see today after the jump.
