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Kowloon Tong 九龍塘 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Traditional Chinese | 九龍 塘 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Simplified Chinese | 九龙 塘 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Jyutping | Gau2lung4tong4 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hanyu Pinyin | Jiǔlóngtáng | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Literal meaning | Nine Dragons Pond | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Location | Suffolk Road / To Fuk Road, Kowloon Tong Kowloon City District, Hong Kong | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Coordinates | 22°20′13″N114°10′34″E / 22.3370°N 114.1762°E | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Operated by | MTR Corporation | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Platforms | 4 (1 island platform on Kwun Tong line and 2 side platforms on East Rail line) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Tracks | 4 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Platform levels | 2 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Accessible | Yes | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Station code | KOT | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Electrified | East Rail line | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Kowloon Tong is a station on MTR's Kwun Tong line and East Rail line in New Kowloon, Hong Kong. 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. [1] [2]
This station serves as one of four interchange stations for the East Rail line, leading up to the New Territories and entry point to mainland China. Therefore, it is one of the busiest stations in the system.
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.
A new underground southern concourse for the East Rail line was opened on 15 April 2004 to increase the station's capacity. The project included a new 60-metre (196 ft 10 in) subway linking to the MTR concourse (meaning the station now has two subways for transferring passengers). The new 1,800-square-metre (19,375 sq ft) concourse also included a new entrance (entrance D) on To Fuk Road. A passenger lift was also installed at entrance E at this time. [3] [4]
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 Kwun Tong line and East Rail line were not removed until 28 September 2008.
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. [5]
Note that the platforms for both the East Rail line and the Kwun Tong line are called platforms 1 and 2.
U1 | overlying buildings | Education Bureau Kowloon Education Service Centre |
footbridge | East Rail line platforms | footbridge connecting East Rail line platforms, Festival Walk, Suffolk Road |
G | Exit H | exit, customer service centre, shops |
side platform | ||
Platform 1 | East Rail line towards Lo Wu or Lok Ma Chau (Tai Wai ) → | |
Platform 2 | ← East Rail line towards Admiralty (Mong Kok East ) | |
side platform | ||
Exit G | exit, transport interchange, taxi stand, customer service centre, shops | |
Kwun Tong line concourse | exits, transport interchange | |
C/L1/B | East Rail line northern concourse | customer service centre, shops, toilets, vending machines, automatic teller machines |
Kwun Tong line concourse | customer service centre, vending machines, automatic teller machines, shops, Octopus promotion machine, iCentre free internet service | |
East Rail line southern concourse | customer service centre, toilets, shops, automatic teller machines | |
L2 | Platform 1 | Kwun Tong line towards Tiu Keng Leng (Lok Fu ) → |
island platform | ||
Platform 2 | ← Kwun Tong line towards Whampoa (Shek Kip Mei ) |
A pedestrian walkway connects the station with Festival Walk, a major shopping centre. [7]
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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