Dhoby Ghaut MRT Station (NS24/NE6/CC1) is a Mass Rapid Transit station in Singapore, located at the eastern end of Orchard Road. Originally a station on the North South Line, it became an interchange station after the opening of the North East Line on 20 June 2003. On 17 April 2010, it became the only station to be an interchange between three lines when the Circle Line wing of the station was opened to public. It is the largest MRT station in Singapore and is equipped with travellators due to its size. The North South Line section of the station was upgraded in 2002 in the first phase of the station upgrading programme, which was completed in 2006.
It is the second deepest MRT station (after Bras Basah) in Singapore, with the deepest point at 28 metres below ground level. The section of track between this station and Somerset is the shortest between any two stations on the North South Line; it takes 1 minute for a train to travel between these two stations.
The station is also one of the 4 MRT stations to appear in the original Singapore edition of the board game Monopoly.
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