Somerset MRT Station (GPS: 1.3005, 103.83863; NS23) is an underground station of the Singapore MRT serving the North-South Line. It was first opened on 12 December, 1987, and was the first station to be upgraded in 2002. The station was named after Somerset Road, which in turn was named after English novelist William Somerset Maugham, who spent time in the Malay peninsula and Borneo, including some years in Singapore, in the 1930's.
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