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THE Government has identified a 21-hectare site off Woodlands Road to be used as a train depot for the MRT Downtown Line.
The plot, next to the Sungei Kadut Industrial Estate, is almost twice the size of the Circle Line's Kim Chuan Depot, touted as the world's biggest underground train depot.
Construction of the new depot, which will serve Stages 1 and 2 of the $12 billion Downtown Line, will start in December this year.
It is expected to be completed in 2015, a year before Downtown Line 2 is due to finish.
But before excavation can begin, 1,957 graves on part the Kwong Hou Sua Teochew Cemetery will have to be exhumed.
This is because the planned depot encroaches on part of the graveyard, which is said to date back to the 1940s.
Exhumation will start in mid-October this year.
The remaining graves in the cemetery - estimated at more than 3,000 - will be exhumed later to make way for development of an industrial site.
Names of the deceased which can be discerned from the tombstones are listed here.
Next of kin or descendents can register to claim the remains at this website.
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