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]
I have a feeling: Changi East in the east, Jurong West in the west.
If so, this depot name would be Jurong West depot, which would just nice align with the Jurong West bus package that it is hosting.
That area isn’t really Jurong West though, more like Tuas East.
Alternatively, Gul Circle depot.
Since it is just next to Gul Circle station.
Easy to remember and easy to align with this name.
The distance between the depot and Gul Circle station so long, makes one wonder whether there will also be a provisional station structure built somewhere there if there’s ever enough demand to justify it in the future.
Ahmad Ibrahim Depot to memorise our 1st President. Bus depot likely to be Soon Lee replacement as the land there is mostly for industrial. For svc like 502 to start at T2 it’s quite a distance.
Huh? You don’t even know the name of your first president? Xiasuay leh
My bad I got mix up with the former MOH and the late Mr Yusof Ishak, Thanks Singh for the reminding
Well, the name “Tuas depot” is taken.
Alternatively, can call it “Jurong depot”.
Just use Ahmad Ibrahim enough, Jurong can be misleading too far away… If can use Kim Chuan, Soon Lee, Ang Mo Kio why cannot AI our 1st President?
Co-integrated with bus depot? Wth is this supposed to replace? Soon Lee? That is already multi-storey, can’t LTA just call tender to install eBus chargers there instead of moving to the new depot just for the sake of the chargers?
Soon Lee will be 30 years old by 2030, and 40 years old by 2040. Although yes, can HIP a 30 year old building. Who say the depot is to replace Soon Lee? It can even be for Clementi bus package, to replace the SBST single-storey Bukit Batok depot.
So, you do have a point. Maybe it’s not to replace Soon Lee. As to which depot it replaces, it remains to be seen.
Bukit Batok alreadt has replacement at the MRT Ulu Pandan Depot and why on earth BB need to relocate so far here? You failed geography is it?
I feel that the eastern part of that depot area could have been residential served by Gul Circle station, and make the depot more west so the trains can turn in directly instead of making a curve around
To the west of the proposed depot is the Singapore Rail Test Center. So no its not possible to shift the depot location.
I still think converting a portion of Tuas North area or the eastern part of the depot area to residential will help to increase demand of rail and bus connectivity in that area.
The depot can change to be perpendicular to AYE instead of running along it.
Bukit Merah package will have the new Pasir Panjang depot in the next few years, possibly the Ulu Pandan depot will be the anchor depot for the Clementi package once the new Pasir Panjang was available.
LTA want depot infrastructure built by them and not all land is suitable for chargers underground cable like Mandai only a portion of site is suitable.