Olympic station

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Olympic

奧運
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Station exterior
Chinese name
Traditional Chinese 奧運
Simplified Chinese 奥运
Cantonese Yale Ouwahn
Literal meaningOlympics
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyin Àoyùn
Yue: Cantonese
Yale Romanization Ouwahn
Jyutping Ou3wan6
General information
Location Lin Cheung Road × Cherry Street, Tai Kok Tsui
Yau Tsim Mong District, Hong Kong
Coordinates 22°19′04″N114°09′37″E / 22.3178°N 114.1602°E / 22.3178; 114.1602
Owned by MTR Corporation
Operated byMTR Corporation
Line(s) Tung Chung line
Platforms2 side platforms
Tracks4
Connections
Construction
Structure typeAt-grade
Platform levels1
Accessible Yes
ArchitectCYS Associates
Other information
Station codeOLY
History
Opened22 June 1998;26 years ago (1998-06-22)
Previous namesTai Kok Tsui
Services
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Kowloon
towards Hong Kong
Tung Chung line Nam Cheong
towards Tung Chung
      Airport Express does not stop here
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Location
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Olympic
Location within the MTR system
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Olympic
Olympic (Hong Kong urban core)

Olympic is a station on the Tung Chung line of Hong Kong's MTR. The livery is dodger blue.

Contents

The station was originally named Tai Kok Tsui in proposals outlined by the government in the Airport Core Programme during the 1990s. In 1996, however, when Lee Lai-shan won the first ever Olympic gold medal of Hong Kong in windsurfing at the Atlanta 1996 Summer Olympics and two Hong Kong sportsmen, Cheung Yiu-cheung and Chiu Chung-lun, also won Gold medals in the Paralympic Games of the same year, the (then-under construction) station was renamed Olympic on 16 December 1996, paying tribute to those achievements of Hong Kong athletes. The station is decorated with the pictures of the 1996 Summer Olympics and is named after the Olympic Games.

Olympic is only one of two stations on the Tung Chung line not shared with another line, the other being Tung Chung. [1]

History

The construction contract for the station was awarded to the Laing-Hip Hing joint venture in November 1994.

On 22 June 1998, Olympic station opened in sync with Tung Chung line.

Station layout

Both side platforms are parallel to each other and are at ground level. They do not share the same island platform due to the Airport Express trains running through the station, between the two platforms, without stopping. The Tuen Ma line also does not serve this station, despite running under the east side of the station near Lin Cheung Road.

U2ConcourseExits, customer service, MTRshops, Hang Seng Bank
Vending machines, automatic teller machines
GGround levelExit A1, Island Harbourview Bus Terminus
Street levelLin Cheung Road, West Kowloon Highway
Platform 1      Tung Chung line towards Tung Chung (Nam Cheong)
Side platform, doors will open on the right
Airport Express      Airport Express does not stop here →
Airport Express     Airport Express does not stop here
Side platform, doors will open on the right
Platform 2     Tung Chung line towards Hong Kong (Kowloon)
Street levelLin Cheung Road, Sham Mong Road
ExitsExit B, C1, C2, Olympic Station Bus Terminus

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Entrances and exits

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Concourse (paid area)
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Platform 2
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Platform 1
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Platform 2
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Exit C
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Platform 2
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Platform 1
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Platforms in Sport Cycling
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MTR Olympic Station Platform Arts in the Sport Rowing
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Olympic Exit C1
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Platform 1
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Platform 2
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Concourse (paid area)

All exits are reached by pedestrian footbridges extending in different directions from the concourse, which is built in a rectangular box between West Kowloon Highway and Lin Cheung Road.

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Olympic Station Exit A1
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Olympic Station Exit A2
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Olympic Station Exit B
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Olympic Exit B
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Olympic Exit C3
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Olympic Exit C4
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Olympic Exit C5
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Olympic Exit D1
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Olympic Exit D2
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Olympic Exit D3
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Olympic Station Exit E (June 2020)

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References

  1. "Olympic Station layout" (PDF). MTR Corporation . Retrieved 27 February 2015. https://www.mtr.com.hk/archive/en/services/routemap.pdf
  2. "Olympic Station layout" (PDF). MTR Corporation . Retrieved 28 March 2015.
  3. "Olympic Station street map" (PDF). MTR Corporation . Retrieved 28 March 2015.