The Complicated History of the Downtown Line - SGLRH Extras (Reupload)

[@protokyne]

The highly inefficient 'loop' that emerged was a result of Rochor station ending up not being an interchange. The plans for a central station for the DTL were scrapped because of the NSC interfering with construction in Rochor.

[@kohwenchieh]

The Circle Line and Downtown Line are also physically connected together at Bayfront station. The turnout connecting the 2 lines is just after the platform.

[@zekt98arius]

what would be interesting for this video would be a "follow up vid" accounting for the changes that happened between the video's original uploading date and today (depending on time of reading this)

[@RailFilmmakingSG]

I don't think there's really much to say that's new as of now, other than TEL Stage 4 is now open, so at most I would have re-animated that line to not be dotted. But because of some back-end issues with our working files, it'll be a huge hassle to get them working again, and I don't think it's worth it just to reanimate a small part...

[@onexoxtoo]

DTL is a very strange line, it's very inconvenient to transfer to other lines. All involved long challenging walk full of obstacles.

[@YaoboyExperiences]

As a result the original opening of Circle Line to be completed, was delayed 5 years from 2005 to 2010 due to the 2004 Nicoll Highway collapse, and the Downtown Line finally opened in 2013.

[@TimothyMokCJ]

To prevent the bus and train fare from increasing by 60 cents, plans have to be tweaked and changed even with Nicoll Highway collapse: CCL: Merger of Marina Line and LRT lines DTL: Merger of Bukit Timah Line, Downtown Extension and Eastern Region Line TEL: Merger of Thomson Line, part of Inner Circle Line, Central Line and Eastern Region Line JRL: Merger of Southwest Line (2008), Jurong Region Tram and part of Holland Line CRL: Merger of East West Line Extension (before realignment), Southwest Line (2008), Tampines Line (two of them) and North Coast Line SLL: Merger of Seletar Line and part of Thomson Line HLL: Merger of Holland Line [and that includes Esplanade/Nicoll Highway MRT as well], connecting the city and PLAB and Punggol North LRT

[@Niclol50]

would have been cooler if the original marina line was merged into present day ccl.

[@YaoboyExperiences]

An additional curve of track was supposed to be built between Rochor & Jalan Besar stations, making DTL travel times faster, but never happened.

[@Lifestyle-lz5be]

if that happened, would there be a new name for the slower loop?

[@The_person-1195]

Tbh, Singapore has very long railways,