Kranji Bus Depot

Kranji Bus Depot is a bus depot under SMRT Buses. Located along Kranji Road, it serves as a parking and maintenance facility for bus operations mainly around Woodlands, Choa Chu Kang, Bukit Panjang, Bukit Batok and Marina Centre.

Kranji Depot is a bus depot serving the north-west of Singapore. It provides maintenance and refuelling work for buses operating on SMRT routes in the vicinity and is commonly referred to as KJDEP. The single-storey depot is situated within the Kranji Industrial Estate, with office-cum-canteen building, workshop, washing shed and other ancillary facilities.

The depot was one of two new depots constructed by Trans-Island Bus Service (TIBS) in the 1980s, after its founding on 31 May 1982. The company was founded to answer the Government’s invitation for a second bus company as a benchmark against Singapore Bus Service (SBS), in the hopes that healthy competition would bring about a better level of service. The company started off with temporary depots in Ang Mo Kio and Kranji close to the eventual location of their permanent depots. Ang Mo Kio Depot commenced use in 1985, while Kranji Depot would operate out of a temporary location (somewhere along Kranji Loop) until the completion of Kranji Depot sometime around 1989.

TIBS Kranji Depot is located on lot MK11-00920W, and as per SLA records, was commissioned on 7 January 1972. Intermediate amendments are not known, but the leasehold was set to expire in mid-2003 as per SMRT annual reports in this period. After this lapsed, a subsequent 10-year lease was granted effective 1 January 2005, which has also since lapsed.

Between August 2014 and July 2015, a portion of buses were transferred to Bulim Bus Depot‘s Bus Park for overnight parking while the main depot was under construction. From April 2017, Ulu Pandan Bus Depot‘s Bus Park was also used for overnight parking while the main depot was under construction.

Depot Fleet:

Kranji Depot currently houses the following models of buses:

Single Deck Buses

• MAN A22
• Mercedes-Benz OC500LE 
• Linkker LM312
• ST Engineering Retrofitted Electric Bus
• Volvo B5LH
• Yutong E12
  (Parks at Bulim Bus Depot)

Articulated Buses

• MAN NG363F (A24)

Double Decker Buses

• Alexander Dennis Enviro500
• MAN A95
• MAN A95 (3-Door)
• Volvo B9TL
• Yutong E12DD
  (Parks at Bulim Bus Depot)

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External Links & References:

• NewspaperSG – Trans-Island expects $7.3m profit this year (nlb.gov.sg)
• NewspaperSG – Tibs to take over 17 SBS bus routes in the north (nlb.gov.sg)

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