Ten Mile Junction LRT Station
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Ten Mile Junction LRT Station (BP14) is an LRT station on the Bukit Panjang LRT Line
Bukit Panjang LRT Line
Bukit Panjang LRT Line is a 7.8 km light rail line opened on 6 November 1999 and part of Singapore's LRT system. It is fully automated, and the project was contracted to Adtranz, Keppel Corporation and Gammon Construction...

 in Singapore
Singapore
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. It was opened in November 1999 and is operated by SMRT
SMRT Corporation
SMRT Corporation is a public transport operator incorporated on March 6, 2000, as a result of an industry overhaul to form multi-modal public-transport operators in Singapore. It is the second-largest public-transport company in Singapore after ComfortDelGro...

. This LRT station is the only one that is air-conditioned, has platform screen doors
Platform screen doors
Platform screen doors and platform edge doors at train or subway stations screen the platform from the train. They are a relatively new addition to many metro systems around the world, with some platform doors retrofitted rather than installed with the metro system itself. They are widely used in...

 and has only one track.

Etymology

The station and the building it is located in, the Ten Mile Junction
Ten Mile Junction
Ten Mile Junction Ten Mile Junction Ten Mile Junction (Chinese: 十里广场)is a shopping mall located at the junction between Woodlands Road and Choa Chu Kang Road. Named after the defunct KTM tenth-mile railway line mark of the former Tanjong Pagar to Kranji part of its Singapore mainline from Upper...

 shopping centre, was named after the distance (10 miles/16 kilometers) of the junction located outside it as calculated from the city along Bukit Timah Road and Upper Bukit Timah Road.

Train service

Ten Mile Junction LRT Station was closed due to the redevelopment of Ten Mile Junction Shopping Centre. It will be opened in end 2011 or January 2012.

Vicinity

The station is connected with Johor Bahru
Johor Bahru
Johor Bahru is the capital city of Johor in southern Malaysia. Johor Bahru is the southernmost city of the Eurasian mainland...

, Malaysia by 2 SBS Transit
SBS Transit
SBS Transit Limited is a public transport operator in Singapore. Its major competitor in Singapore's duopoly transport system is SMRT Corporation, which also operates bus, rail, taxi and other transport services....

 bus services, 160 and 170, which stop near this station. The station is on the site of the former Bukit Panjang Police Station. The hill which the police station was situated was leveled to make way for the station in 1996. A shopping centre, Ten Mile Junction
Ten Mile Junction
Ten Mile Junction Ten Mile Junction Ten Mile Junction (Chinese: 十里广场)is a shopping mall located at the junction between Woodlands Road and Choa Chu Kang Road. Named after the defunct KTM tenth-mile railway line mark of the former Tanjong Pagar to Kranji part of its Singapore mainline from Upper...

, is situated below the LRT station.

This station is the headquarters of SMRT Light Rail, a wholly owned subsidiary of SMRT
SMRT Corporation
SMRT Corporation is a public transport operator incorporated on March 6, 2000, as a result of an industry overhaul to form multi-modal public-transport operators in Singapore. It is the second-largest public-transport company in Singapore after ComfortDelGro...

. This is where LRT trains are directed from as the LRT system is a driver-less light transit system. LRT trains on the Bukit Panjang LRT Line
Bukit Panjang LRT Line
Bukit Panjang LRT Line is a 7.8 km light rail line opened on 6 November 1999 and part of Singapore's LRT system. It is fully automated, and the project was contracted to Adtranz, Keppel Corporation and Gammon Construction...

 are parked in this station.

Station closure

SMRT announced on December 6, 2010 that the station will be closed from December 10, 2010 to the end of 2011 due to re-development of Ten Mile Junction shopping centre that resulted a closure to the entire mall as well. Bukit Panjang LRT Service C, which operates from Ten Mile Junction, will be withdrawn until the end of 2011.

Bus services nearby

The following bus services pass by the bus stops along Woodlands Road:
Bus Stop Code: 44041 (Ten Mile Junction Station)
Service Destination Note
SMRT Buses Trunk Services
178 Woodlands Regional Bus Interchange
Woodlands Regional Bus Interchange
Woodlands Regional Bus Interchange was completed and opened along with the Woodlands extension of the North South MRT Line in 1996. It is the first underground bus interchange, and one of the biggest in Singapore...

960 Woodlands Regional Bus Interchange
Woodlands Regional Bus Interchange
Woodlands Regional Bus Interchange was completed and opened along with the Woodlands extension of the North South MRT Line in 1996. It is the first underground bus interchange, and one of the biggest in Singapore...

961 Woodlands Regional Bus Interchange
Woodlands Regional Bus Interchange
Woodlands Regional Bus Interchange was completed and opened along with the Woodlands extension of the North South MRT Line in 1996. It is the first underground bus interchange, and one of the biggest in Singapore...

961* Woodlands Regional Bus Interchange
Woodlands Regional Bus Interchange
Woodlands Regional Bus Interchange was completed and opened along with the Woodlands extension of the North South MRT Line in 1996. It is the first underground bus interchange, and one of the biggest in Singapore...

SBS Transit Trunk Services
160 Kotaraya 2 Bus Terminal End at JB
170 Larkin Bus Terminal
Larkin Bus & Taxi Terminal
The Larkin Bus & Taxi Terminal is located in Johor Bahru , Malaysia, some 5 kilometres northwest of the northern tip of the Johor–Singapore Causeway...

 
End at JB



Bus Stop Code: 44049 (Opposite Ten Mile Junction Station)
Service Destination Note
SMRT Buses Trunk Services
178 Boon Lay Bus Interchange
Boon Lay Bus Interchange
The Boon Lay Bus Interchange is an air-conditioned bus interchange located in Pioneer, in the western part of Singapore. It is situated within the Jurong Point Shopping Mall and is integrated with the nearby Boon Lay MRT Station...

960 Marina Centre Bus Terminal
Marina Centre Bus Terminal
Marina Centre Bus Terminal is a bus station located along Raffles Boulevard in Marina Centre, Singapore. It is very near to Promenade MRT Station. The bus terminal does not allow boarding or alighting, and passengers have to alight before the bus terminates at the terminal...

961 Geylang Lorong 1 Bus Terminal
961* Geylang Lorong 1 Bus Terminal  Alternate route
SBS Transit Trunk Services
160 Jurong East Bus Interchange
Jurong East Bus Interchange
Jurong East Bus Interchange is a bus interchange located in Jurong East, Singapore...

170 Queen Street Bus Terminal
Queen Street Bus Terminal
Queen Street Bus Terminal , also known as the Ban San Bus Terminal, is a bus terminal or terminus in Singapore. It is an aging terminal located in a relatively inconvenient location due to changes in transport patterns around it...

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