Great World MRT station

This station was first announced on 29 August 2012 as part of the Thomson line by the Land Transport Authority.[2]

On 15 August 2014, the Thomson and Eastern Region lines were merged to form the Thomson-East Coast line, with Great World station now part of Phase 3 consisting of 13 stations between Mount Pleasant and Gardens by the Bay stations.[3][4] The contract for the design and construction of the station and associated tunnels was awarded to Tiong Seng Contractors and Dongah Geological Engineering (Singapore branch) as a joint venture at a sum of S$316 million in May 2014. Construction is expected to be completed in 2021.[5]

Three names were proposed for this station; 'Great World', 'Kim Seng' and 'River Valley'. On 27 June 2014, Great World was confirmed as the name of the station.[6]

On 19 December 2015 at about 5.30 pm, a Bangladeshi construction worker was killed when the excavator's bucket dislodged and fell on him. The victim had been guiding an excavator prior to the accident. He was taken to Singapore General Hospital and was pronounced dead on arrival.[7]

On 11 June 2015 at 10.40am, residents of Bukit Merah, Outram, Tanjong Pagar and Tiong Bahru were affected by an Internet outage due to construction works inadvertently damaging a section of fibre optic cables while carrying out piling works at Kim Seng Road. The disruption lasted more than eight hours and affected all the major Internet service providers in Singapore. In a separate statement, the Land Transport Authority apologised for the disruption.[8]