Commuters were evacuated from a train at Bukit Gombak MRT station on Tuesday morning after smoke was spotted coming from the carriage, according to CNA.
CNA reports that the smoke appeared to originate from beneath the train, and passengers were moved off the service. The incident was reported on Tuesday, 15 September 2026.
The Straits Times, also covering the evacuation, said a faulty brake was the likely cause of the smoke. AsiaOne and UA.NEWS carried similar accounts of passengers leaving the train in Singapore.
The reports did not give a figure for the number of people evacuated, and no injuries have been reported in the material available.
Bukit Gombak station sits on Singapore's North-South Line, a route that carries a heavy daily load of commuters. Disruptions at any station on the network tend to ripple along the line, though the reports summarised above do not state whether services were delayed or suspended after the evacuation.
Smoke under a carriage is typically treated as a mechanical fault until an operator says otherwise, and the accounts so far point to the braking system rather than anything more serious. That assessment comes from The Straits Times and has not been confirmed in the other reports.
What to watch next: whether the operator releases findings on the cause and confirms when normal service at the station resumed.
