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Somerset

Somerset is an MRT station in Orchard, Singapore, recorded in the Urban Redevelopment Authority's Master Plan rail layer.

Somerset, a station in Singapore
Somerset, photographed as a station and confirmed by inspection to show this place rather than its surroundings. zhenkang · CC-BY-SA-4.0

Good for

  • Architecture & design — A building whose interest is legible from the street, whether or not anything inside it is open. It is in this corpus as an MRT station in the URA rail layer with 4 verified places within 700 m, making it a real arrival point for this part of the city.

These are editorial judgements, not verified facts.

Sources & verification

coordinates.latitude
Master Plan 2019 Rail Station layer (Primary) — checked 2026-09-07
Point published against this record by Urban Redevelopment Authority.
coordinates.longitude
Master Plan 2019 Rail Station layer (Primary) — checked 2026-09-07
name
Master Plan 2019 Rail Station layer (Primary) — checked 2026-09-07
The register's own title for this record is "Somerset"; the displayed name is that title cleaned of markup and case, not a rename.
externalIds.sourceRecordId
Master Plan 2019 Rail Station layer (Primary) — checked 2026-09-07
The identifier Urban Redevelopment Authority gives this record. Read from the response.
category
Master Plan 2019 Rail Station layer (Primary) — checked 2026-09-07
Assigned from the register's own classification of this record as "sg_rail_stations".
neighborhoodId
Master Plan 2019 Rail Station layer (Primary) — checked 2026-09-07
Assigned by point-in-polygon against the Urban Redevelopment Authority's published Master Plan boundary.

Not verified: opening hours, admission prices and access rules. These change frequently and we have not checked them, so this page does not state them. Check the official website before travelling.

Created from record 10 of Master Plan 2019 Rail Station layer.

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