Olympic Station
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Chinese name | |||||||||||||
Traditional Chinese | 奧運 | ||||||||||||
Simplified Chinese | 奧运 | ||||||||||||
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Location |
Lin Cheung Road × Cherry Street, Tai Kok Tsui Yau Tsim Mong District, Hong Kong | ||||||||||||
Coordinates | 22°19′04″N 114°09′37″E / 22.3178°N 114.1602°ECoordinates: 22°19′04″N 114°09′37″E / 22.3178°N 114.1602°E | ||||||||||||
Operated by | MTR Corporation | ||||||||||||
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Platforms | 2 (side platforms) | ||||||||||||
Connections | Bus, public light bus | ||||||||||||
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Structure type | At-grade | ||||||||||||
Platform levels | 1 | ||||||||||||
Disabled access | Yes | ||||||||||||
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Station code | OLY | ||||||||||||
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Olympic Location within the MTR system |
Olympic (Chinese: 奧運) is a station on the Tung Chung Line of Hong Kong's MTR. The livery is dodger blue.
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 Movement.
Olympic is only one of two stations on the Tung Chung Line not shared with another line, the other being Tung Chung.
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.
U2 | Concourse | Exits, customer service, MTRshops, Hang Seng Bank |
Vending machines, automatic teller machines | ||
G | Ground level | Exit A1, Island Harbourview Bus Terminus |
Street level | Lin 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 level | Lin Cheung Road, Sham Mong Road | |
Exits | Exit B, C1, C2, Olympic Station Bus Terminus |
Entrances and exits
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.
- A1: Island Harbourview Bus Terminus
- A2: Island Harbourview, Olympian City 1
- B: HSBC Centre Towers 2 and 3
- C1: Sham Mong Road
- C2: Cherry Street
- C3: HSBC Centre Towers 2 and 3
- C4: HSBC Centre Tower 1
- C5: Florient Rise
- D1: Cherry Street
- D2: Lin Cheung Road
- D3: Olympian City 2 and 3
- E: Bank of China Centre, Olympian City 1 [2]
Transport connections
Bus routes
- 2E- Kowloon City Ferry ↔ Pak Tin
- 10- Choi Wan ↺ Tai Kok Tsui
- 12- Hoi Lai Estate ↔ Tsim Sha Tsui East (Mody Road)
- 13D- Po Tat ↔ Island Harbourview
- 16- Lam Tin (Kwong Tin Estate) ↔ Mong Kok (Park Avenue)
- 16X- Lam Tin (Kwong Tin Estate) → Mong Kok (Park Avenue) (Morning Peak Service)
- 18- Nam Cheong Station ↺ Oi Man
- 31B- Shek Lei ↔ Olympic Station
- 32- Shek Wai Kok ↔ Olympic Station
- 33A- Mong Kok (Park Avenue) ↔ Tsuen Wan (Nina Tower)
- 37- Kwai Shing (Central) ↔ Olympic Station
- 43C- Cheung Hong ↔ Island Harbourview (Rush Time Service)
- 52X- Tuen Mun Town Centre ↔ Mong Kok (Park Avenue)
- 66X- Tai Hing ↔ Olympic Station
- 68X- Hung Shui Kiu (Hung Fuk Estate) ↔ Mong Kok (Park Avenue)
- 72X- Tai Po Central ↔ Mong Kok (Park Avenue)
- 87B- Sun Tin Wai ↔ Island Harbourview
- 265B- Tin Heng Estate ↔ Mong Kok (Park Avenue)
- 287X- Pok Hong Estate ↺ Jordan
- 887- Sha Tin Racecourse → Mong Kok (Park Avenue) (Racing Days Only)
- 701- Hoi Lai Estate /Nam Cheong Station ↺ Mong Kok
- 701S- Hoi Lai Estate /Nam Cheong Station ↺ Mong Kok (Night Service)
- 971- Hoi Lai Estate ↔ Shek Pai Wan
- NWFB towards Hong Kong Island
- 904- Lai Chi Kok ↔ Kennedy Town (Belcher Bay)
- 905- Lai Chi Kok ↔ Wan Chai Ferry
- 914- Hoi Lai Estate ↔ Causeway Bay (Tin Hau)
- 914P- Hoi Lai Estate → Causeway Bay (Tin Hau)(Morning Peak Service)
- 914X- Hoi Lai Estate → Causeway Bay (Tin Hau)(Morning Peak Service)
- Citybus towards Airport/AsiaWorld-Expo
- A21- Airport (Ground Transportation Centre) ↔ Hung Hom Station
- E21- AsiaWorld-Expo ↔ Island Harbourview
- N23- Tung Chung ↔ Sze Wan Shan (Via: Airport)
References
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Olympic Station. |
- ↑ "Olympic Station layout" (PDF). MTR Corporation. Retrieved 28 March 2015.
- ↑ "Olympic Station street map" (PDF). MTR Corporation. Retrieved 28 March 2015.