Kowloon Tong is a station on MTR's and in New Kowloon, Hong Kong. Its livery is sky blue. The station serves Kowloon Tong and its vicinity, including Yau Yat Tsuen, the Festival Walk shopping centre, City University of Hong Kong and Hong Kong Baptist University.
The station straddles the boundary between Kowloon City District and Sham Shui Po District.
This station serves as one of four interchange stations for the , leading up to the New Territories and entry point to mainland China. Therefore, it is one of the busiest stations in the system.
History On 1 October 1910, the KCR British Section opened, including Beacon Hill Tunnel, but without any station at Kowloon Tong. Kowloon Tong station on the KCR opened on 4 May 1982, serving as an interchange point with the MTR.
On 1 October 1979, the first phase of the MTR's Kwun Tong line opened to the public, including Kowloon Tong station. Kumagai Gumi is the main contractor under Contract 205.
A new underground southern concourse for the was opened on 15 April 2004 to increase the station's capacity. The project included a new subway linking to the MTR concourse (meaning the station now has two subways for transferring passengers). The new concourse also included a new entrance (entrance D) on To Fuk Road. A passenger lift was also installed at entrance E at this time.
On 2 December 2007, the MTR–KCR merger took place, and Kowloon Tong became solely operated by MTR, but the turnstiles separating the respective concourse of the and were not removed until 28 September 2008.
Station layout
There is a reserved space for a track connecting the East Rail line and the Kwun Tong line in the westbound tunnel just outside Kowloon Tong station towards Shek Kip Mei. The space was originally designed to allow the Metro Cammell EMUs to be transferred to the Kwun Tong line when they were unloaded at Hung Hom, but the track was never built as the MTR decided to use lorries to carry all of its train carriages to the Kowloon Bay Depot.地鐵神秘景點 – Hong Kong Railway Engineering Centre.
Note that the platforms for both the East Rail line and the Kwun Tong line are called platforms 1 and 2.
U1overlying buildingsEducation Bureau Kowloon Education Service CentrefootbridgeEast Rail line platformsfootbridge connecting East Rail line platforms, Festival Walk, Suffolk RoadGUpper PlatformExit Hexit, customer service centre, shopsside platformPlatform towards or () →Platform ← East Rail line towards ()side platformExit Gexit, transport interchange, taxi stand, customer service centre, shopsKwun Tong line concourseexits, transport interchangeC/L1/BEast Rail line northern concoursecustomer service centre, shops, toilets, vending machines, automatic teller machinesKwun Tong line concoursecustomer service centre, vending machines, automatic teller machines, shops, Octopus promotion machine, iCentre free internet serviceEast Rail line southern concoursecustomer service centre, toilets, shops, automatic teller machinesL2Lower PlatformPlatform towards () →island platformPlatform ← Kwun Tong line towards ()
Entrances and exits
A pedestrian walkway connects the station with Festival Walk, a major shopping centre.
Kwun Tong line concourse A1: Suffolk Road A2: Hong Kong Baptist Hospital/Hong Kong Baptist University B: Suffolk Road C1: Hong Kong Productivity Council C2: Festival Walk/City University of Hong Kong E: EDB Education Services Centre East Rail line southern concourse D: Public Transport Interchange East Rail line northern concourse F: Kent Road East Rail line platform 2 (ground level) G1: To Fuk Road G2: Festival Walk East Rail line platform 1 (ground level) H: Hong Kong Productivity Council
Exit H is also accessible from the East Rail line northern concourse. It is possible to walk between Exit A and E in the vicinity of the station without entering the paid area. The same goes for Exit B, C, F and H.
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