Lam Tin Station

This article is about Lam Tin Station of the MTR. For the town area with the same name, see Lam Tin.

Lam Tin 藍田

Lam Tin station platform 1

Line      Kwun Tong Line Code LAT Service hours 0606/0120 Connections Bus, Minibus

District Kwun Tong Area Lam Tin Map MTR Website Coordinates 22.306396°N 114.233119°E / 22.306396; 114.233119

Opened October 1989 Type of station Elevated Type of platforms Island No. of platforms 2 No. of exits 5 No. of escalators 17 No. of lifts 1 No. of shops 3

Station location

Lam Tin Station
Traditional Chinese	藍田
Simplified Chinese	蓝田
Literal meaning	Blue Field
Transcriptions Mandarin - Hanyu Pinyin Lántián Cantonese (Yue) - Jyutping laam4 tin4 - IPA [lȁːm tʰȉːn] - Yale Romanization laam4 tin4

Lam Tin Station Concourse

Customer service center - note that there is only one operator serving both queues

Lam Tin is a station on the Hong Kong MTR Kwun Tong Line built as a part of the extension to Quarry Bay. The station is linked to the hillside community of the Lam Tin area by a series of escalators.

History

In the 1980s, the Eastern Harbour Crossing (EHC or EHT) had been planned by the colonial government. Following the successful result of the MTR since 1978, the government decided to extend the Kwun Tong Line through a new tunnel to Quarry Bay.

It was later decided that before the entrance to the tunnel, trains would stop at a station at Lam Tin Valley, where it goes into the Sai Tso Wan Hill and then underground to the entrance of the tunnel.

The construction was completed by 1989. As part of his official visit with then Princess of Wales to Hong Kong, the Prince of Wales officiated the opening of the station, in which a commemoratitve plaque remains in display to this day.

After the opening of the EHC, Lam Tin, with the MTR station and bus terminals, became a crucial transport interchange in east Kowloon. The station serves passengers between Tseung Kwan O and other parts of Kowloon as well as between Hong Kong and Kowloon.

Platform Screen Doors have been in use since late August 2005.

Station layout

-	Subway (Kai Tin Road)	Subway to Kai Tin Road and Lam Tin North
C Concourse (Ground)	Concourse	Exits, footbridges
		Customer service, MTRshops
		Hang Seng Bank、vending machines、automatic teller machines
	Footbridge	Footbridge to Sceneway Garden
		Transport interchange, Subway to Kai Tin Road
P Platforms	Platform 1	Kwun Tong Line towards Tiu Keng Leng
	Island platforms, doors open on the right
	Platform 2	Kwun Tong Line towards Yau Ma Tei

Platforms 1 and 2 share the same island platform. Like Lai King Station, Lam Tin Station is built on an elevated platform, in which half of the platform is immersed into the Lam Tin Hill and so the station is sealed like other underground stations (but it is mixed as an elevated, ground level, and underground station).

The concourse is the first floor down the escalators from the hillside exits. It is divided into two parts: the paid area and the non-paid area. The paid area has escalators down to the platforms and has a postbox, while the non-paid area links the exits and houses a Hang Seng Bank branch.

Between the paid and non-paid areas there are the entrance gates and a customer service centre which serves both areas.

Entrances/exits

• A: Lam Tin Bus Terminus, Kai Tin Estate
• B: Sceneway Plaza
• C: Lei Yue Mun Road west-bound direction
• D1: Sin Fat Road, Sai Tso Wan.
• D2: Block 17 of Sceneway Garden

Transport connections

See also: Lam Tin#Infrastructure

Following the MTR station's opening in 1989, the area around Lam Tin station has been developed into a major transportation interchange in Hong Kong. The shopping centre and Sceneway Plaza above the transportation interchange adjacent to the station were built on a site that used to be occupied by a hill-side squatter hut community.

The original Lam Tin community has also seen several rebuilding projects since the station had been built. The interchange has brought in new residential and commercial demand in the community. The bus termini, the Lei Yue Mun Interchange, and other public transportation facilities had transformed the Lam Tin area into an important transportation hub as well as a commercial and residential center.

Here are the routes which terminate at the Lam Tin MTR Bus Terminus

• A22 To Hong Kong Airport
• 42C To Cheung Hang Estate, Tsing Yi
• 61R To City One Shatin
• 89D To Wu Kai Sha Station
• 93M To Po Lam
• 216M To Yau Tong Circular
• 258D To Po Tin Estate, Tuen Mun

Neighbouring stations

Preceding station		MTR		Following station
Kwun Tong towards Yau Ma Tei		Kwun Tong Line		Yau Tong towards Tiu Keng Leng