Stations Cilea, Salvator Rosa and Museo opened on 5th April as well. Station Dante will be opened in July, and station Materderi will be opened in Autumn of 2001. The train reversing facility for this section is in Dante station, so this section is temporarily operated with a shuttle train as long as Dante station is completed. The shuttle has three units and a maximum capacity of 1000 passengers. Mr. Shimada sent me an e-mail contained many of newest and valuable informations about Singapore Subway new lines.
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This line is 1500V D.C., overhead, 6cars set, full automatic operation. The first trainset arrived to car depot near Buangkok on 2nd Feb. 2001. Names of this new line are as follows. The size of cars of this line may be mini-metro type. The cars will be manufactured by Siemens Co. of Germany.