Chinatown breakthrough

As mentioned in our earlier post, C937 finally broke through to the reception shaft at Upper Cross Street cut & cover site. The process has been a long and arduous one as the ground showed increasing settlement as the machine neared the end point. Care had to be taken to mine the last few metres or so to prevent excessive settlement causing the buildings on both sides to move and potentially see unwanted movement of the road above.

Nevertheless, after several weeks, the team safely accomplished breakthrough, linking the stage 1 tunnels to the stage 3 tunnels. Here are a few photos of the occassion.

Tampines Central

The Tampines station will be an interchange station with the existing East West Line. Located next to the Tampines bus interchange, it will serve commuters going to the office buildings and commercial buildings at the town centre, such as CPF Tampines Building, Tampines One and Tampines Mall. The station will also double up as a Civil Defence shelter. No tunnelling works are involved in this contract. This is KTC's first metro project as main con.

Excavation to formation level

Strutted Excavation

Concreting the subway level

With thanks to KTC Civil E&C

Track Updates

Track laying within Newton station