Kranji railway station, Singapore

Railway station in Singapore

Kranji

General information
Location| Singapore
Platforms| 1
Other information
Status| Demolished
History
Original company| Keretapi Tanah Melayu
Former services
| Preceding station  |  Keretapi Tanah Melayu | Following station

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Johor Bahru

towards Padang Besar

|  | North–South Line |  | Mandai

towards Tanjong Pagar

Kranji railway station was a railway station on the Singapore-Johore Railway which served Kranji for a period of time in the 1900s.

## History

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Kranji railway station was opened to the public on an unknown date as an infill station between Woodlands station and Bukit Panjang station to serve the Kranji area.

As it was decided that Tank Road station was unfit to be the terminus of the line, it was decided that the Bukit Timah-Tank Road section of the line would be abandoned, and the line would instead deviate in between Bukit Panjang station and Bukit Timah station, travelling down a different route which ran along the west of the main town, to a new terminal station at Tanjong Pagar,[1] with a new station being built at Bukit Timah, and two new stations at Tanglin and Alexandra.[2] In November 1955, a new service was introduced in which lorries would arrive at the station in the morning and in the evening to bring people to and fro from work from the station. This was introduced due to the low ridership of the station.[3][4]

By 1984 the station had already been abandoned and demolished. The site of the former station was one of several possible locations for a railbus station for the railbus line that the Keretapi Tanah Melayu (KTM) planned to build in Singapore.[5]

## References

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1. ^ Chandy, Gloria (30 April 1979). "Once, Singapore connection crossed over the Johore Straits by steam ferries". New Nation. Singapore. Retrieved 27 March 2022.
2. ^ "The new railway deviation". Malaya Tribune. Singapore. 2 May 1932. Retrieved 27 March 2022.
3. ^ "This May Mean 'Go by Train' to Work". The Straits Times. Singapore. 27 November 1955. Retrieved 27 March 2022.
4. ^ "The new train service". The Straits Times. Singapore. 28 November 1984. Retrieved 27 March 2022.
5. ^ Soh, Victor (31 July 1984). "All Aboard the Johor-Singapore Railbus..." The Singapore Monitor. Singapore. Retrieved 27 March 2022.