If you’re ever at Punggol LRT station, you may notice a “longkang” in the middle of the platform, but did you know that “longkang” was supposed to be another train platform for an unfinished North Branch LRT Line? Also, why is there a track branch that goes to nowhere near the still-closed Teck Lee LRT Station?
Huge shoutout to @bananasolid for the awesome MRT map animations that he made for this episode!
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*A minor clarification: Some of the comments have pointed out that the station names shown here are actually speculations and not official. We did very extensive research and the map at 1:11 was the only map we could find online with details that corroborated with our other sources, like the 1998 newspaper article and the NUS online map which showed 4 planned stations. Nevertheless, having some speculated names would have been better for the production of this episode as it would have been more straightforward to refer to the stations by their speculated names rather than by their station codes like PN1, etc., and they did provided us with placeholder names that we can use in our map animations.
As a person who's been to punggol LRT numerous times, i've never noticed the third
so this video actually made my realise this secret, W video
I'd recommend dropping by NLB National Archives of Singapore or NLB Lee Kong Chiang Reference Library for future projects about exploring places in Singapore that are lost in time, search engine algos practically make it impossible for you to research on old subjects. Plus not every archive is accessible via normal NLB libraries, since some materials only have few copies left and are usually kept safe at their more research focused libraries. I'm a Singapore nostalgia nut and love your content, hope the algos bless you.
This was actually really well done and informative. Very impressed and looking forward to such content from the channel, keep it up!
Singapore getting more better than Malaysia which is getting more backwards because of those extremist islam party
The animation to punggol coast station was by bananasolid
Dont ask why the name is that sus and why the pfp of the person looks like that
Looking forward to more videos~ great job!
Sky train is the best solution for public transport with less people.
Thanks for solving the mystery that ponder me whenever I took the LRT for close to two decades of staying in Punggol! This documentary is nearly as good as CNA and deserve more attention to the Punggolians!!
Is it me, or is there a little jay foreman vibe to the series? Either way, im loving the series (cuz im a train enthusiast).
wheres part 2
Very well done n interesting! Looking forward to more vids!
oot but i wonder if there are remnants of Singapore's Old tram and trolleybus network, or Tank Road Railway Station?
My block at Soo teck LRT stat. 😂 Didnt know there is an extension.
I love how concise and well-spoken all the information was. 😊
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Is this video inspired by Jay Foreman? It's a really nice video and kinda has that Jay Foreman feeling to it 😀
All these abandon projects… just like MCE abandon highway exit for what is suppose to be a network of roads that lead into town. But ever since the gov wants to grow the green incentive and promote public transportation, they are forever closed off.
Excellent video and Joyce is a great presenter!
I don't think this branch line is real. Reply "real" here if you think it's real or reply "fake" if you think it's fake
this video is super well done, very informative and i highly enjoyed every second of it! very thankful for the length of it too. keep it up!!
Where did u get the map from, or did u create it pls tell me!
Why does this video remind me of Jay Foreman’s Unfinished London series?
Wow I didn’t even knew why it has a middle line but I have seen it before even tho I lived here for 21 years!
Once again SG so boring must talk about MRT lol
Yo wtf is this high quality video sia.
As someone who is a transport enthusiast, I think this video is thoroughly well-edited and quite informative, it even gave me some information that I initially did not know about! Well done
why is the production so good but so little subs i felt like i watched a proper tv documentary
this is so campy, the presentation made me chuckle a little
Love those perfectly timed clips on the train when you point at the features right when they are passing by without a break in your speech 😂
ok now build another mrt line for yishun to punggol
I'm low-key impressed at both the video and the research that went behind it…..
Where part 2?
It appears that the planned coastline LRT was supposed to connect with the final MRT station of the NE line. Both were provisioned for. Few know that the Punggol Coast station tunnel was already dug and sealed, awaiting for a later time to build a station box.
The NEL from Serangoon to Punggol is already congested af though during peak hours, bringing more people to Punggol End is going to make peak hours even worse
Solid quality video. 👍🏻
Nice video this was well explained 👍
Geoff Marshall would highly approve this!
Well researched and well presented. I like it!
Punggol residents got lucky with a bigger wider platform at their main station where Sengkang residents are stuck with a badly crammed designed LRT platform at main station.
CNA level omg 😍! Keep up the quality work always