There used to be an old Waterfront station that existed before its closure in 2009, when Sentosa Express was still at its infancy. The closure was to make way for a bigger station, now known as Resorts World, which opened in 2010.
Grew up with OG monorails that run through most of the beaches around Sentosa..with private-like cabins where if your family is big enough..and cabin doors has no windows and get to enjoy the wind and nature from station to station
as a local, i can confirm waterfront station is built. trains do stop at the station but doors do not open. when it was dismantled, trains still stop at the station location, but doors do not open (kind of scary since you are stopping in the middle of nowhere, with only some scaffolding still standing as the station structure is completely dismantled).
nice video! but i highly feel that waterfront was definitely planned due to the presence of space for an island platform when initial construction began? if not it wouldve been a side platform today
Yup, I can also attest that the original waterfront station was built and then later demolished, making way for rsws. The station was in the middle of nowhere on top of a grasspatch and some surrounding forest when the line was first opened, similar to the Punggol LRT West Loop before the surrounding development. It was a memory one could never forget for how creepy the atmosphere was from a child's pov. - I'll also say that the planners definitely did not account for the possible influx of people for the modern era as the monorail even back then held quite the crowd. Today, it's beyond over capacity and would definitely need a major upgrade. Even more so now, due to all the redevelopment sentosa is going through, I don't think the new sentosa tram system would be enough to handle it.
As a millennial who went to Sentosa via the Sentosa Express several times during the construction of RWS, the alleged original Waterfront station you mentioned was never built. I had never seen any signs of station building in that tunnel. Were there plans to have it roughly where the tunnel was at the early stage of planning, yes possibly. But it never started construction.
Comments seem split on whether the station was built or not, though most lean to it being built. All I recall was when it was finally being built there was lights next to the track where the train would stop, but I don't remember seeing the old station itself ever. My memory fails me since I wasn't even 7 at the time.
ruclips.net/video/_W_p8JOouqE/видео.htmlfeature=shared Go to 4:20 and you can see the supposed "old" station before demolition. ruclips.net/video/ZltZzUM-zH0/видео.htmlfeature=shared Above video at the end you will see an unopened station. Conclude yourself.
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There used to be an old Waterfront station that existed before its closure in 2009, when Sentosa Express was still at its infancy. The closure was to make way for a bigger station, now known as Resorts World, which opened in 2010.
Hope you can make more PT commentary like this! Especially on the unique designs of some of our MRT Stations
sure, there are certainly more coming soon 🤔
These types of videos are quite interesting. Keep on going with this!
Very interesting video! Never knew about these further details
Grew up with OG monorails that run through most of the beaches around Sentosa..with private-like cabins where if your family is big enough..and cabin doors has no windows and get to enjoy the wind and nature from station to station
Nice video! Informative
I always wondered why these stations were so weird. Great video!
thank you for the kind words!
as a local, i can confirm waterfront station is built. trains do stop at the station but doors do not open. when it was dismantled, trains still stop at the station location, but doors do not open (kind of scary since you are stopping in the middle of nowhere, with only some scaffolding still standing as the station structure is completely dismantled).
I learnt more here than what I've learnt in school
nice video! but i highly feel that waterfront was definitely planned due to the presence of space for an island platform when initial construction began? if not it wouldve been a side platform today
yea it was planned, the question is whether it was actually rebuilt and demolished 😅
Not gonna lie, I realised you have nice grammer in all of the videos! Keep up the good work! I just subbed so yeah.
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Hello, I can confidently confirm that Waterfront station was dismantled and rebuilt for Resorts World Sentosa’s development.
wow, thanks!
Nice
Yup, I can also attest that the original waterfront station was built and then later demolished, making way for rsws. The station was in the middle of nowhere on top of a grasspatch and some surrounding forest when the line was first opened, similar to the Punggol LRT West Loop before the surrounding development. It was a memory one could never forget for how creepy the atmosphere was from a child's pov.
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I'll also say that the planners definitely did not account for the possible influx of people for the modern era as the monorail even back then held quite the crowd. Today, it's beyond over capacity and would definitely need a major upgrade. Even more so now, due to all the redevelopment sentosa is going through, I don't think the new sentosa tram system would be enough to handle it.
I find this interesting because I don't remember this at all. What year was this?
I remember that the MRT 3 here in the Phillippines has those Schnidler Escalators at it can barely fit 2 passengers on 1 step.
As a millennial who went to Sentosa via the Sentosa Express several times during the construction of RWS, the alleged original Waterfront station you mentioned was never built. I had never seen any signs of station building in that tunnel.
Were there plans to have it roughly where the tunnel was at the early stage of planning, yes possibly. But it never started construction.
i see, thanks for the information!
these videos are informative wow... u just earned urself a new sub!!!
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Have you considered using your own voice in your videos? I feel it will be beneficial to promote Singaporean English
i did for my recent bus collective review, do check it out :)
Comments seem split on whether the station was built or not, though most lean to it being built. All I recall was when it was finally being built there was lights next to the track where the train would stop, but I don't remember seeing the old station itself ever. My memory fails me since I wasn't even 7 at the time.
was there an older line at Sentosa that stopped? or a Mrt line that has stopped in Singapore mainland?
“Where got platform so long one” Jurong East? (Not the tracks)
Why the orginal Resorts World Station (formerly Waterfront Station) demolished and rebuilt again?
these are like the travel vlogs my mom watches, but translated to my brand of autism.
😂😂
Oh yeah sentosa express
Hmm since u are close to Beach station, u should a End of the Line Series for SG
3:12 68 metres?! How can a station platform be so wide? This is even wider than the TEL platform of Woodlands station!🤣
Duh, Woodlands TEL station is quite wide, but it is not as wide as 68 metres...
Trains do stop at Waterfront station before it was opened but the doors do not open
i see, thanks for sharing your experience!
Is there any announcements played when stopping at the station? Just Interested.
@@SouthboundFS i think there are. there are videos on RUclips that feature waterfront when it was closed
Nice video geeks, and im exicited for more but from 3:09 -> 3:12 there is no audio
its meant to be like that LOL
oh ok@@sbs2828s
Why there is a doors closing at the end of the video
cannot ah
@sbs2828s why cannot
Sentosa Hitachi Small-type Monorail
Request: Can you have more information about imbiah station?
as it wasn't the main focus of this video, i didn't rly include it
Maybe beach station it is the main focus
ruclips.net/video/_W_p8JOouqE/видео.htmlfeature=shared
Go to 4:20 and you can see the supposed "old" station before demolition.
ruclips.net/video/ZltZzUM-zH0/видео.htmlfeature=shared
Above video at the end you will see an unopened station.
Conclude yourself.
Donate now or this man won't publish the videos
Lemme guess,the old sentosa monorail served this station before it was replaced by sentosa express
not really!
Oh come on=(
@@sbs2828sNot fair!
More problems including the old livery at the bottom...bro.
68m wide hahaha
Nice