Olympic Station

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     Olympic
奧運

Appearance of Olympic station

Appearance of Olympic station

Line  Tung Chung Line
Code OLY
Service hours 0607-0105
Connections Bus, Minibus
District Yau Tsim Mong
Area Tai Kok Tsui
Map MTR Website
Coordinates 22°19′04″N 114°09′37″E / 22.317816°N 114.160214°E / 22.317816; 114.160214Coordinates: 22°19′04″N 114°09′37″E / 22.317816°N 114.160214°E / 22.317816; 114.160214
Opened June 22, 1998
Type of station Ground Level
Type of platforms Side
No. of platforms 2
No. of exits 11
No. of lifts 3
No. of shops 10

Station location

Hong Kong MTR system map
Hong Kong MTR system map
Olympic Station
Traditional Chinese 奧運
Simplified Chinese 奧运
Olympic Station Platform No.1
Olympic Station Concourse (paid area)

Olympic Station (Chinese: 奧運站) 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 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 1996 Summer Olympics and is named after the Olympic Movement.

Contents

[edit] Station layout

U2
Concourse
Concourse Exits, customer service, MTRshops, Hang Seng Bank
Vending machines, automatic teller machines
G
Platforms
(Ground)
Exit Exit A1, Island Harbourview Bus Terminus
- Lin Cheung Road, West Kowloon Highway
Platform 1  Tung Chung Line towards Tung Chung and Disneyland Resort Line
Side platform, doors will open on the right
- Airport Express tracks
Side platform, doors will open on the right
Platform 2  Tung Chung Line towards Hong Kong
- Lin Cheung Road, Sham Mong Road
Exits Exit B, C1, C2, Olympic Station Bus Terminus

Although both platforms are parallel to each other on ground level, they do not share the same island platform due to the Airport Express Trains running through the middle of the station.

It is interesting to note that, with the exception of transfer to buses, Olympic station is the only station along the Tung Chung Line that does not have a transfer point to other routes in the MTR system (Tung Chung being to transfer to the Ngong Ping 360 cable cars)

[edit] Entrances/Exits

All exits are reached by pedestrian footbridges reaching out to all directions from the concourse, built in a rectangular box in the middle of the West Kowloon Highway.

  • A1: Island Harbourview Bus Terminus
  • A2: Island Harbourview Wheelchair user access
  • B: HSBC Centre Towers 2 and 3
  • C1: Sham Mong Road Wheelchair user access
  • C2: Cherry Street
  • C3: HSBC Centre Towers 2 and 3
  • C4: HSBC Centre Tower 1
  • C5: Florient Rise
  • D1: Olympian City 2 and Park Avenue Wheelchair user access
  • D2: Lin Cheung Road
  • D3: Cherry Street
  • E: Bank of China Centre Wheelchair user access

[edit] Transport connections

[edit] Bus routes

KMB
  • 2E- Kowloon City Ferry ↔ Pak Tin
  • 10- Choi Wan ↺ Tai Kok Tsui
  • 12- Hoi Lai Estate ↺ East Tsim Sha Tsui Station
  • 13D- Po Tat ↔ Island Harbourview
  • 16- Lam Tin (Kwong Tin Estate) ↔ Mong Kok (Park Avenue)
  • 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
  • 52X- Tuen Mun Town Centre ↔ Mong Kok (Park Avenue)
  • 66X- Tai Hing ↔ Olympic Station
  • 72X- Tai Po Central ↔ Mong Kok (Park Avenue)
  • 87A- Pok Hong ↔ Mong Kok (Park Avenue)
  • 87B- Sun Tin Wai ↔ Island Harbourview
  • 265B- Tin Heng Estate ↔ Mong Kok (Park Avenue)
  • 887- Sha Tin Racecourse → Mong Kok (Park Avenue) (Racing Days Only)
NWFB
  • 701- Hoi Lai Estate /Nam Cheong Station ↺ Mong Kok
  • 701S- Hoi Lai Estate /Nam Cheong Station ↺ Mong Kok
  • 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)
  • 914X- Hoi Lai Estate → Causeway Bay (Tin Hau)
Citybus towards Airport/AsiaWorld-Expo

[edit] Neighbouring stations

Preceding station   MTR   Following station
towards Tung Chung
Tung Chung Line
towards Hong Kong

[edit] References


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