Fortress Hill Station

Fortress Hill 炮台山

The Fortress Hill station platform.

Line █ Island Line Code FOH Service hours 0608/0107 Connections Bus, Minibus, Tram

District Eastern Area Causeway Bay Fortress Hill North Point Map MTR Website Coordinates 22.288143°N 114.193637°E / 22.288143; 114.193637

Opened May 31, 1985 Type of station Underground Type of platforms Island No. of platforms 2 No. of exits 2 No. of lifts 1 No. of shops 3

Station location

Fortress Hill Station
Chinese	炮台山
Literal meaning	Mount Battery
Transcriptions Mandarin - Hanyu Pinyin Pàotáishān Cantonese (Yue) - Jyutping paau3 toi4 saan1 - Yale Romanization paau3 toi4 saan1

Fortress Hill (Chinese: 炮台山, literally Mount Battery) is a station on the Island Line of the Hong Kong MTR system. The station is located in the Fortress Hill section of Hong Kong on the eponymous island. Like all MTR stations, Fortress Hill has a unique colour scheme; its livery is dark green. The distance between this station and Tin Hau to the west is approximately 480 metres, the second-closest stations after Mong Kok and Prince Edward.

Station layout

G Ground	-	exits
C Concourse	Concourse	customer service, MTRShops
		vending machines, ATM
P Platform	Platform 1	█ Island Line towards Chai Wan
	Island platform, doors will open on the right
	Platform 2	█ Island Line towards Sheung Wan

Fortress Hill is laid out in a similar manner to many MTR stations. Passengers enter on the ground level and take escalators down to the concourse. From the concourse level they take another escalator ride down to the platform.

Platforms 1 and 2 are arranged in an island platform layout. In a similar manner to the deep-level London Underground stations, each track and platform is in a separate tube shaft with a common entrance and exit point between the two tubes. Each platform is equipped with platform screen doors for safety and ventilation reasons.

There are only four escalators that connect the concourse and the platforms; they are some of the longest in the MTR system.^{[citation needed]}

Gallery

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  The longest escalators in the MTR system

Entrances and exits

There are two exits at Fortress Hill station. Both are located on the same side of King's Road (英皇道) but on opposite ends of the Fortress Metro Tower, a high-rise residential complex.

• A: for the AIA Tower and Citicorp Centre
• B: for the Olympia Plaza and Electric Centre

Bus connections

The following bus routes run along King's Road.

Routes found at King's Road (Exits A or B) To Braemar Hill:

• 25, 25C, 27, 529,

To Lai Tak Tsuen:

• 81

To Pokfield Road:

• 23

To Stanley:

• 63 On Weekdays and Saturdays
• 65 On Sundays and Holidays

To Kennedy Town:

• 10

To Siu Sai Wan:

• 8X

Preceding station		MTR		Following station
Tin Hau towards Sheung Wan		Island Line		North Point towards Chai Wan