Lakeside MRT Station

Lakeside MRT Station (EW26) is an above-ground Mass Rapid Transit station on the East West Line in Jurong, Singapore.

As the Jurong Lake lies next to this station which derived its name from geographical feature, it serves residents living in Hong Kah, Taman Jurong and Boon Lay, as well as people working in Jurong Port and Pioneer Sector.

History
The station was opened on 5 November 1988, it was a western terminal station for the East West Line, when westbound train terminates at Platform B before it turnaround utilised nearby crossover to platform A headed back to the East. Boon Lay was fully opened on 6 July 1990.

Temporary interchange due to JEMP
The services along the East West Line from Clementi to Jurong East was unavailable from September 4 to 5, 2010, to facilitate the construction of the connector track as part of the Jurong East Modification Project, Joo Koon bound trains terminated at platform A and utilised the nearby crossover continue to Joo Koon. Two slow shuttle trains also deployed between this station to Jurong East on both platform A and B, as this stretch have no crossover, as the train running towards Jurong East on westbound track and train running towards Lakeside on Eastbound track, these two trains ran slowly as it passed a wrong signal, reverse mode were used to run on a wrong direction on the wrong track.

Platform screen doors
As with most of the above-ground stations built in the past along the East West Line, it was built without platform screen doors to prevent commuters from falling onto the train tracks. After several successful tests at Jurong East, Yishun and Pasir Ris and eventually, installation of the half-height screen doors started on 9 June 2010 and operations commenced on 31 August 2010 along with Bukit Batok.

High volume, low speed (HVLS) fans
Station installed with Rite Hite Revolution High Volume, Low Speed (HVLS) fans and commenced operations on 30 November 2012 with Bukit Batok.

Parks nearby

 * Chinese Garden, Singapore
 * Japanese Garden, Singapore
 * Jurong Lake Park
 * Taman Jurong Green

Facilities nearby

 * HDB Jurong West Branch Office

Schools nearby

 * Lakeside Primary School
 * Rulang Primary School
 * Shuqun Primary School
 * Yuhua Secondary School
 * Hua Yi Secondary School
 * Fuhua Secondary School
 * Yuan Ching Secondary School
 * Jurong Secondary School
 * Jurong Junior College
 * Grace Orchard School