North East MRT line

The **North East MRT Line** (**NEL**) is the third Mass Rapid Transit line in Singapore. The line is 22 km long with 17 stations and is operated by SBS Transit. Travelling from one end of this line to the other end takes about half an hour. This line is coloured purple in the rail map.

The line joins central Singapore to the north-eastern part of the island. Transfer to the North South Line is done at Dhoby Ghaut station, East West Line at Outram Park station, Circle Line at Serangoon and Dhoby Ghaut and Downtown MRT Line at Chinatown and Little India stations.

This line is the first MRT line in Singapore to be completely underground (running in a tunnel all the way between HarbourFront and Punggol Coast). It is also the first (and so far, the only) line where trains get their power from overhead wires above the track, instead of a third rail beside the track.

All the trains on the North East Line are automated (computer-controlled) and do not have an operator driving the train at the front. It is one of the world's first rapid transit lines that does not need drivers and is one of three such lines in the MRT network today. The others are the Circle Line and the Downtown Line.

## Stations

|**Station number**|**Station name**|**Image**|**Interchange/notes**|
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
||HarbourFront||Interchange with the ****|
||reserved; under planning||Reserve station to be open at a later date|
||Outram Park||Interchange with the ***' and the ***' <small>_(2021)_</small>|
||Chinatown||Interchange with the ****|
||Clarke Quay|||
||Dhoby Ghaut||Interchange with the ***' and the ***'|
||Little India||Interchange with the ****|
||Farrer Park|||
||Boon Keng|||
||Potong Pasir|||
||Woodleigh|||
||Serangoon||Interchange with the ****|
||Kovan|||
||Hougang||Interchange with the **** <small>_(2029)_</small>|
||Buangkok|||
||Sengkang||Interchange with the ****|
||Punggol||Interchange with the ****|
||Punggol Coast|||

## Other websites

- North East Line (SBS Transit)
- North East Line (Land Transport Authority)
- Railway Technology on the NEL

## Infobox (rail line)

- **box width**: 12em
- **name**:
North East Line
- **native name**: Laluan MRT Timur Laut

- **logo**: North East Line logo.svg
- **logo width**: 250px
- **image**: File:HarbourFront MRT Station NEL Platform.jpg
- **image width**: 300px
- **caption**: An Alstom Metropolis C851E, C851E train at HarbourFront MRT station, eastern terminus of the line
- **type**: Rapid transit
- **system**: Mass Rapid Transit (Singapore)
- **status**: Operational
- **start**: HarbourFront MRT Station, HarbourFront
- **end**: Punggol Coast MRT station, Punggol Coast
- **stations**: 17 (excluding reserved station for NE2)
- **routes**: 1
- **daily ridership**: 579,000 (Q1 2017)
- **open**:
 (Buangkok MRT Station, Buangkok)
 (Woodleigh MRT Station, Woodleigh)
  (Punggol Coast MRT station, Punggol Coast)
- **owner**: Land Transport Authority
- **operator**: SBS Transit (railway company), SBS Transit (ComfortDelGro)
- **character**: Fully underground
- **depot**: Sengkang Depot, Sengkang
- **stock**: Alstom Metropolis C751A, C751A
 Alstom Metropolis & Shanghai Electric C751C, C751C
 Alstom Metropolis C851E, C851E
- **electrification**: 1500V Direct current, DC Overhead catenary
- **speed**: limit of
- **map**: