Caldecott MRT Station

Caldecott MRT Station (CC17) is an underground station along the Circle Line (CCL) Stage 4, located within the Toa Payoh West planning subzone. It is built underneath Toa Payoh Rise.

By Q3 2021, Caldecott station will be an interchange station with the Thomson-East Coast Line (TEL) Stage 2, with the station code CC17TE9, as well as serving as the line terminus before Stage 3 of the line opens in Year 2022, when the line will be extended to Gardens by the Bay. The TEL station was originally targeted for completion and opening in Year 2020. However, it was delayed till Q1 2021 and later further delayed to Q3 2021 in December 2020 due to the COVID-19 Pandemic.

The station gets its name from the nearby Caldecott Hill Estate, despite it being some distance away from the station. Caldecott Hill is home to private houses and the former Caldecott Broadcast Centre, synonymous with the growth of the local media industry, and originally named after British colonial administrator Sir Andrew Caldecott.

Caldecott Station serves residential areas at both Caldecott Hill and Toa Payoh West, along with landscape nurseries and florists along Thomson Road, and a mix of special needs schools and organizations in the vicinity.

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First / Last Train Timings

Circle Line – (CC17) Caldecott
Destination	First Train		Last Train
	Weekdays & Sat	Sun & Public Holidays	Daily
CC1 Dhoby Ghaut	5:34am	6:02am	11:30pm
CC7 Mountbatten	–	–	12:07am
CC12 Bartley	–	–	12:30am
CC29 HarbourFront	5:28am	5:52am	11:23pm
CC26 Pasir Panjang	–	–	11:53pm
CC23 one-north	–	–	12:09am
Thomson-East Coast Line – (TE9) Caldecott
Destination	First Train		Last Train
	Weekdays & Sat	Sun & Public Holidays	Daily
TE1 Woodlands North	–	–	–

 

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Station Layout

L1	Street level	Bus stops, Taxi stand, pick-up/drop-off point
B1	CCL Concourse	Faregates, Ticketing machines, Passenger Service Centre
	TEL Concourse	Unpaid Linkway to Exits 2 & 3
B2	Platform A	Circle Line towards CC29NE1 HarbourFront
	Platform B	Circle Line towards CC1NS24NE6 Dhoby Ghaut Circle Line towards CE2NS27 Marina Bay (Peak Hours)

Platforms

Circle Line (B2):

Platform A: Circle Line towards CC29NE1 HarbourFront via CC19DT9 Botanic Gardens (→) Platform B: Circle Line towards CC1NS24NE6 Dhoby Ghaut via CC16 Marymount (←) Circle Line towards CE2NS27 Marina Bay via CC16 Marymount (Peak Hour Alternate Trains) (←)

Caldecott station has two platforms in an island platform arrangement. Full-height Platform screen doors isolate the air-conditioned station from the tunnel environment, enhancing commuter safety and station comfort. A set of escalators, stairs and a lift connects the platform level to the concourse level one floor above. With the concourse wrapping around the platform, a large interior space is created around the platform, giving the impression of spaciousness.

Passenger Information Systems, which are plasma display screens located at each platform, display expected train arrival times and key messages. Tactile flooring helps to guide the visually-handicapped from the platform to the station exits.

Heading south from Caldecott station, trains pass through a station box reserved for a future Bukit Brown station.

Concourse

Circle Line

The station concourses at Basement 1 feature faregates for automatic fare collection and provides access between paid and unpaid areas of the station, with at least one bidirectional wide-swinging gate for the benefit of passengers-in-wheelchairs and those carrying bulky items or travelling with prams.

General Ticketing Machines allow commuters to purchase tickets for single or multiple journeys, and along with Top-up Machines, offer contactless card transactions. The station office functions as a Passenger Service Centre, and is staffed during operating hours, where commuters may make travel inquiries.

Art in Transit: “The Cartography of Memories” by Hazel Lim

The Cartography of Memories is a tribute to the places we love and the houses we lived in. Gathered through contributions from a hundred local residents and friends of the artist, this map of the larger vicinity of the Thomson and Caldecott areas is a collection of their personal histories, nostalgic memories and anecdotes of Singapore. By charting the streets, reservoir, houses and landforms of this area with their stories, it allows for their personal narratives to traverse the landscape of Singapore as the country shifts, changes and progresses over time.

Civil Defence shelter

Caldecott CCL station is one of eleven stations along the Circle Line designated as Civil Defence (CD) shelters, which will be activated in times of national emergency. Apart from reinforced construction, the stations are designed and equipped with facilities to ensure the shelter environment is tolerable for all shelterees during shelter occupation. These facilities include protective blast doors, decontamination facilities, ventilation systems, power and water supply systems and a dry toilet system.

Thomson-East Coast Line

Part of the Thomson-East Coast Line concourse was opened to the public on 28 February 2021 to connect the new Exits 2 & 3 to the Circle Line station concourse. (Main Article: New Exits & TEL Concourse open at Caldecott MRT Station, published March 2021).

Since the TEL has yet to open, ticketing machines and other facilities at TEL Caldecott Station are not in use. Faregates have been installed, but are opened for free passage. The pedestrian link between TEL and CCL concourses is expected to be converted to a paid link in future.

Thomson-East Coast Line (U/C)

Station Amenities

• Public Toilets at concourse level
• Bicycle racks at station exits

Exits

Caldecott station currently has three exits at ground level with one more under construction (Exit 4). All exits have lifts providing barrier-free accessibility.

The Former Exit A was closed from 15 November 2020 to facilitate construction work for the Thomson-East Coast Line. Exits were renumbered from letters to numbers with the opening of Exit 2 & 3 on 28 Feb 2021 as part of the Thomson-East Coast Line Station.

Exit	Location	Nearby
A	Toa Payoh Link	Exit Closed from 15 Nov 2020
1	Toa Payoh Link (Former Exit B)	MSF Building, Philips APAC Centre, Seventh-day Adventist Community Church, SLF Building
2	SAVH / Toa Payoh Rise	Lighthouse School, Marymount Convent School, Mount Alvernia Hospital, S’pore Association of the Visually Handicapped (SAVH), Seventh-day Adventist Community Church
3	Toa Payoh Rise
4	Toa Payoh Link (Not In Service)	MSF Building, Philips APAC Centre, SLF Building

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Transport Connections

Caldecott station connects to several bus stops in the vicinity, and taxi stands and passenger pick-up points.

Bus

Several bus stops are in the vicinity of Caldecott station.

Bus stop	Exit	Bus Routes
52559 – Toa Payoh Link (Caldecott Stn)	1	235
52211 – Toa Payoh Rise (Lighthouse Sch)	2	141, 235
52219 – Toa Payoh Rise (Bef Caldecott Stn)	3	141, 235
52991 – Toa Payoh Link (Future Bus Stop)	4	Not In Use
52241 – Toa Payoh Rise (Opp Caldecott Stn)	1	141
52249 – Toa Payoh Rise (Aft Caldecott Stn)	1	141
51059 – Thomson Rd (Aft Toa Payoh Rise)	1	54, 130, 132, 141, 156, 162, 162M, 166, 167, 851, 980
51051 – Thomson Rd (Aft Andrew Rd)	1	54, 130, 132, 141, 156, 162, 162M, 166, 167, 851, 980

Road

Taxi stands and pick-up/drop-off points are located next to station exits:

Exit	Road	Provisions
1	Toa Payoh Link	Taxi Stand (F58), Pick-up/drop-off point
2	Toa Payoh Rise	Taxi Stand (F85), Pick-up/drop-off point
3	Toa Payoh Rise	Taxi Stand (F86), Pick-up/drop-off point
4	Toa Payoh Link	Not In Use

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Rail Bridging Services

In the event of a MRT service disruption affecting Caldecott station, rail bridging services (also called MRT breakdown shuttle buses) may be activated to ply affected stretches of the Circle Line. In which case, the buses can be boarded from the following bus stops:

Towards	Bus stop	Exit
Circle Line
CC1NS24NE6 Dhoby Ghaut	52559 – Toa Payoh Link (Caldecott Stn)	1
CC29NE1 HarbourFront	52559 – Toa Payoh Link (Caldecott Stn)	1

In addition, passengers can board free regular bus services at Bus Stop 52559 when activated.

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Passenger Usage Patterns

Serving low-density residential areas, florists and special institutions in the vicinity, Caldecott station encounters low to moderate demand across most of the day.

Construction

Circle Line Stage 4 (CCL4) Contract 854 for the Construction and Completion of Thomson, Adam and Farrer Stations, including Bukit Brown RTS Structure and Tunnels, was awarded to Taisei Corporation. The working name for Caldecott station was Thomson Station.

Thomson-East Coast Line Contract T213 for the Construction of Caldecott Station and Tunnels was awarded to Samsung C&T Corporation at a contract sum of S$284.8 million in July 2013.

Future Developments

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Major Incidents

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Gallery

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External Links & References

• Circle Line Art In Transit – LTA
• Second stage of Thomson-East Coast Line to open early 2021 after delays due to COVID-19: Ong Ye Kung – CNA