Rail Development Strategy

The Railway Development Strategy was announced by the Department for Transport in various places. It outlines the blueprint of the planning and implementation of the railway network expansion plan till 2016. The strategy was formulated based on the results of the Second Railway Development Strategy that was conducted in March 1998. It is in line with the overall development of Singaporeo to meet the daily traffic needs of the public and to further implement the sustainable public transport policy with railway as a backbone.

Prior to the publication of this document, the documents were the "Singapore Integrated Transport Study", "Singapore Second Integrated Transport Study" and "Singapore Third Integrated Transport Study", that was created in 1975, 1987 and 1998 respectively. This was done in the Concept Plan 2001 with the announcements of the respective lines coming - Thomson Line, Seletar Line, Arts Centre Line, Bukit Timah Line, Eastern Region Line and Jurong Region Line.

Regional Express Line
The Regional Express is a fast railway connecting the Tanjong Pagar West and the Singapore-Malaysia border. Provide local express service with only a small number of stopovers, and through train service.

The railway starts from Tanjong Pagar West and breaks away to become the own route at Outram Park MRT Station, going through the Punggol MRT Station, and also the railway can also go along the Thomson Line - of it is Channel Tunnel Rail Link (High Speed 1), before emerging into Johor Bahru area.

The concept of the regional express line has been evolved and matured into Kuala Lumpur-Singapore High Speed Rail in recent years, this was announced in 2011 by Najib Razak and Lee Hsien Loong. The terminus is now changed to Jurong Country Club since 2014. There are no intermediate stations in the mainland.

Prison Rail Line and Port Rail Link
The Prison Rail Line is a railway that is like London Post Office Railway, to transport prisoners to various places. There are various options, which will link the Admiralty West Prison and Changi Prison, to link the Punggol North Prison, as seen in Street Directory 2007 Edition, together with Queenstown Remand Prison, Tanah Merah Prison, Kaki Bukit Prison and several drug rehabilitation centres.

As the cross-border rail freight volume continued to decline, the LTA had announced on 16 October 2009 that the Economic Development Committee will not further develop the rail line, the LTA had only suspend the market share of 0.06% of offenders.