A second rail depot for the Cross Island Line (CRL) will be built as part of CRL Phase 3, as announced by the Land Transport Authority on 31 July 2026.
Situated in Tuas, at the former site of Raffles Country Club, the integrated depot would be bounded by Jalan Ahmad Ibrahim to the south and the Pan Island Expressway to the East. The site was earmarked for use as the CRL western depot in January 2017 as part of the land acquisition of Raffles Country Club.
The name of the Integrated Bus & Rail depot has yet to be announced by the Land Transport Authority.
Train Depot
The rail depot occupies approximately 23 hectares and provides maintenance facilities and stabling for the CRL train fleet (CRRC Sifang CR151 Trains). Notably, it occupies less than a third of the land area at the former golf course, which is over 70 hectares. It is also less than half the size of Changi East Depot, which spans 57 hectares.
The depot site footprint was not known to have been published by LTA upon the announcement of CRL3, but was carried by Chinese publication Lianhe Zaobao on 1 August 2026.
Bus Depot
Co-located with the CRL Western Rail Depot, a new multi-storey bus depot will be built to provide parking, charging and maintenance facilities for public buses.
Reference:
- Joint News Release by the Land Transport Authority (LTA) & SLA – Cross Island Line Phase 3 to Connect Jurong Lake District to Gul Circle with Four New Stations – Land Transport Authority [31 Jul 2026]
- Raffles Country Club to make way for KL-Singapore HSR – CNA [4 Jan 2017; Retrieved 31 Jul 2026]
Have a strong feeling that this depot will have a direct connection to the rail test centre. As for any station between this and Gul Circle highly unlikely due to space constraints but if so it could be CR24 Tuas Ave
No wonder why JW package doesn’t have any svc that went beyond JW/West areas beside 502..
It seems that part of the CRL depot is bounded by the high speed track of the rail test centre?