Kowloon Bay station

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Kowloon Bay

九龍灣
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Station Platform (2021)
Chinese name
Traditional Chinese 九龍
Simplified Chinese 九龙
Jyutping Gau2lung4waan1
Hanyu Pinyin Jiǔlóngwān
Literal meaningNine Dragons Bay
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyin Jiǔlóngwān
Yue: Cantonese
Yale Romanization Gáulùngwāan
IPA [kɐw˧˥lʊŋ˩wan˥]
Jyutping Gau2lung4waan1
General information
Location Kwun Tong Road near Telford Gardens, Kowloon Bay
Kwun Tong District, Hong Kong
Coordinates 22°19′25″N114°12′51″E / 22.3235°N 114.2141°E / 22.3235; 114.2141
Operated by MTR Corporation
Line(s) Kwun Tong line
Platforms2 (1 island platform)
Tracks2
Connections
Construction
Structure typeElevated
Platform levels1
AccessibleYes
Other information
Station codeKOB
History
Opened1 October 1979;44 years ago (1979-10-01)
Electrified 1,500 V DC (Overhead line)
Services
Preceding station HK MTR logo.svg MTR Following station
Choi Hung
towards Whampoa
Kwun Tong line Ngau Tau Kok
towards Tiu Keng Leng
Track layout
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Location
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Kowloon Bay
Location within the MTR system

Kowloon Bay is a station on the Hong Kong MTR Kwun Tong line. It is located between Choi Hung and Ngau Tau Kok stations in Kowloon East. The station was opened in 1979.

Contents

Kowloon Bay station is one of the five MTR stations on the Kwun Tong line located above ground level, and one of three to be elevated and open-air (the other two being Ngau Tau Kok and Kwun Tong). Due to difficulties in installing platform screen doors (PSDs) in above ground stations, the MTR decided not to install PSDs at this station, instead installing automatic platform gates (APGs) on the station's platforms in 2011. In 2011, the MTR also changed the hue of Kowloon Bay station from black to red.

The headquarters of the MTR Corporation and the depot for the Kwun Tong line are both located at this station. Also located above the depot is Telford Gardens, the first residential property to be developed by the MTR Corporation. Kowloon Bay station is connected to Telford Plaza, a shopping mall located next to Telford Gardens.

History

John Lok & Partners was chosen to construct the station and adjacent line sections.

Kowloon Bay station opened when the Kwun Tong line became operational on 1 October 1979.

Station layout

Platforms 1 and 2 share the same island platform.

U2
Platforms
Platform 1      Kwun Tong line towards Tiu Keng Leng (Ngau Tau Kok)
Island platform, doors will open on the right
Platform 2     Kwun Tong line towards Whampoa (Choi Hung)
Telford PlazaExit C
U1ConcourseExits, Telford Plaza, Telford Gardens
Customer service, MTRshops
Hang Seng Bank, vending machines, automatic teller machines
"iCentre" free internet access
GDepotExits, MTR Kowloon Bay Depot

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Entrances/exits

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References

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  2. "Kowloon Bay Station street map" (PDF). MTR Corporation . Retrieved 25 July 2014.