Singaporeans are no strangers to the words terrorism, especially when public transport security announcements are heard throughout the transit system daily.
Or this video, which has been omnipresent across all MRT stations in the last two decades:
Production house Ochre Pictures has undertaken the herculean task of producing a local TV drama Third Rail, featuring a life-sized train and rail tunnel in its film set at the Changi Exhibition Centre.
The train featured in the show is a first-generation Kawasaki Heavy Industries C151 train, used on the North-South and East-West Lines since 1987.
Together with the 2nd and 3rd-generation trains, these trains are currently being decommisioned. Most traincars are headed straight for the scrapyard, but authorities have been open to proposals to repurpose these old cars, including the upcycling of the old seats in neighbourhoods.
Retired Kawasaki Heavy Industries C151 train cars 3095 and 1095 were transported across the island from Tuas West Depot to Changi Exhibition Centre on the night of 5th March 2022.
After arriving at Changi Exhibition Centre, the train cars were lifted by crane onto real train tracks and sleepers. A 180m-long tunnel was then constructed around it.
The original SMRT black train livery was covered in a fictional colourful “KMRT” livery. One would also easily recognize shapes of the route maps in the train cabin, but the stations names have been renamed for filming purposes as well.
Walking through the dark stuffy train set, we could see much of the original train features were retained, including the familiar red-green-(blue) colour scheme for the seats.
A pair of broken windows, and leftover shattered glass bits on the train floor – a revelation of some of the hostage scenes captured as part of the drama.
Third Rail will be available on meWATCH starting Oct 17, on Mediacorp YouTube Drama Channel starting Oct 25 and on Channel 5 starting Oct 31 at 9.30pm.
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Last time there was this TV show Shiver. One episode had Andrew Seow’s character go into an alternate world using a mysterious MRT card (the old floppy one).
They should have dug up and used the MRT station names from that episode. Paya Lebar = Tai Seng, Lavender = Desker, Dhoby Gaut = Serangoon… but maybe they don’t want to confuse with the ACTUAL Tai Seng and Serangoon stations.
Interestingly, in both, Aljunied station became Geylang.
Unfortunately, the set has already been taken down and demolished
Where is the train now?
Has it been scrapped?
Is it free on mewatch?
real KMRT
https://mtbu.kcg.gov.tw/
Whoever renamed the MRT stations just literally ripped off the original MRT map. What a wasted opportunity, especially when Mediacorp can just create an artificial MRT map, featuring its television channels and any quality local production that it got (again, if any).
Anyway, considering the investment, using it for just one television production would be too wasteful. Hopefully this set can be permanent, and re-used in other productions, such as family drama (if channel 8 still wants to produce them), etcetera.
At least use the NEL map. Less overt.
North-South Line: Central Line
East-West Line: Oval Line
North-East Line: Diagonal Line
Circle Line: Triangle Line
Downtown Line: Island Line
Bukit Panjang LRT: North LRT
Jurong East: East Central
Bukit Batok: Quarry
Bukit Gombak: Two Hills
Choa Chu Kang: Kingfisher
Yew Tee: Mersing East
Kranji: Neo Tiew
Marsiling: Mersing West
Woodlands: Causeway
Admiralty: Ulu Ulu
Sembawang: Bottle Tree
Canberra: ???
Yishun: North Star
Khatib: Hot Springs
Yio Chu Kang: Cabana
Ang Mo Kio: Pang Kio
Bishan: Peck San
Braddell: Balestiar
Toa Payoh: Swamplands
Novena: Park Place
Newton: Circus
Orchard: Dynasty
Somerset: Nova
Dhoby Ghaut: Istana
City Hall: Capitol
Raffles Place: Fullerton Square
Marina Bay: South Bay
Marina South Pier: Isle Pier
EWL (OVL):
Pasir Ris: Golden Sands
Tampines: Kampung Melayu
Simei: Melville
Tanah Merah: Upper Changi (Used by DT34 in real life)
Expo: Confucius
Changi Airport: Jewel (Used by the nearby mall in real life)
Bedok: Chai Chee
Kembangan: Sims East
Eunos: Wisma
Paya Lebar: Parklane
Aljunied: Geylang
Kallang: Riviera (Used by PE4/CP3 in real life)
Lavender: Crawford
Bugis: Midtown
City Hall: Capitol
Raffles Place: Fullerton Square
Tanjong Pagar: Duxton
Outram Park: Keong Saik
Tiong Bahru: Henderson
Redhill: Hong San
Queenstown: Elizabeth
Commonwealth: Queensway
Buona Vista: Rochester Park
Dover: University
Clementi: Sunset Way
Jurong East: East Central
Chinese Garden: Tech Park
Lakeside: Berjaya
Boon Lay: Bahar (Used by Jalan Bahar JS7 in real life)
Pioneer: Industrial
Joo Koon: Bird Park
Gul Circle: Ulu Pandan
Tuas Crescent: 2nd Link
Tuas West Road and Tuas Link: Station names cannot be read clearly, answer me if you got the answer