Alexandra Halt | |||||||||||
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Location | Singapore | ||||||||||
Platforms | 1 | ||||||||||
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Status | Demolished | ||||||||||
History | |||||||||||
Opened | 3 May 1932 [1] | ||||||||||
Closed | Before 1943 [2] | ||||||||||
Original company | Keretapi Tanah Melayu | ||||||||||
Former services | |||||||||||
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Alexandra Halt railway station, or simply Alexandra Halt, was a railway station on the Singapore-Johore Railway which served the surrounding neighbourhoods, and as a halt for trains travelling along the railway, from 3 May 1932 to sometime before 1943.
As it was decided that Tank Road station was unfit to be the terminus of the line, it was decided that the Bukit Timah-Tank Road section of the line would be abandoned, and the line would instead deviate in between Bukit Panjang station and Bukit Timah station, travelling down a different route which ran along the west of the main town, to a new terminal station at Tanjong Pagar, [3] with a new station being built at Bukit Timah, and two new stations at Tanglin and Alexandra. [1] Alexandra Halt railway station was opened to the public on 3 May 1932 as one of four new stations on the new route of the Singapore-Kranji railway, [1] [4] [5] along Alexandra Road. [6] Besides being a stopping place for trains travelling on the railway, [1] the station also serviced the areas surrounding the Alexandra Barracks. [6]
The station was abandoned and demolished by 1943, likely due to the fact the Tanglin station had instead replaced Alexandra Halt as a halt on the railway line. [2]