Kowloon Tong Station

Kowloon Tong
九龍塘
MTR rapid transit station

Platform 1 (East Rail Line)
Location Suffolk Road / To Fuk Road, Kowloon Tong
Kowloon City District, Hong Kong
Coordinates 22°20′13″N 114°10′34″E / 22.3370°N 114.1762°E / 22.3370; 114.1762Coordinates: 22°20′13″N 114°10′34″E / 22.3370°N 114.1762°E / 22.3370; 114.1762
Owned by MTR Corporation (Kwun Tong), Kowloon–Canton Railway Corporation (East Rail)
Operated by MTR Corporation
Line(s)
Platforms 4 (island platform (Kwun Tong), side platforms (East Rail))
Connections Bus, public light bus
Construction
Structure type Underground (Kwun Tong), at-grade (East Rail)
Platform levels 2
Disabled access Yes
History
Opened
  • 1 October 1979 (1979-10) (Kwun Tong Line)
  • 4 May 1982 (1982-05-04) (East Rail Line)
  • 5 April 2004 (2004-04-05) (extention)
Electrified 1983 (East Rail Line)
Services
Preceding station   MTR   Following station
towards Yau Ma Tei
Kwun Tong Line
towards Tiu Keng Leng
towards Hung Hom
East Rail Line
towards Lo Wu or Lok Ma Chau
Location
Hong Kong MTR system map
Kowloon Tong
Location within the MTR system
Kowloon Tong Station
Traditional Chinese 九龍塘
Simplified Chinese 九龙塘
Literal meaning Pond of nine dragons
Kwun Tong Line concourse
Kwun Tong Line platforms
decorations in East Rail Line platforms
East Rail Line platforms

Kowloon Tong is a station on MTR's Kwun Tong Line and East Rail Line in New Kowloon, Hong Kong.

Kowloon Tong Station serves Kowloon Tong and its vicinity, including Yau Yat Tsuen, the Festival Walk shopping centre, City University of Hong Kong and Hong Kong Baptist University.

This station serves as one of the two interchange stations for the East Rail Line, leading up to the New Territories and entry point to mainland China. Therefore, it is one of the busiest stations in the system. The load of Kowloon Tong station was heavily reduced, when a new interchange station was built at Tsim Sha Tsui/East Tsim Sha Tsui. It is because, prior to the commissioning of the KCR East Rail extension to East Tsim Sha Tsui station, Kowloon Tong station was the only station offering such interchange to passengers.

A new concourse for East Rail Line was opened on 15 April 2004 to increase its capacity.

On 28 September 2008, turnstiles separating the respective concourse of Kwun Tong Line and East Rail Line were removed.

Timetable

Line Destination First train Last train
Kwun Tong LineTiu Keng Leng06:2100:51
Kwun Tong01:11
Yau Ma Tei06:0400:42
East Rail LineLo Wu05:3623:13
Lok Ma Chau05:3021:41
Sheung Shui00:31
Hung Hom05:4501:04
Source: MTR[1]

Station layout

There is a reserved space for a track connecting the East Rail Line and the Kwun Tong Line in the westbound tunnel just outside Kowloon Tong station towards Shek Kip Mei. The space was originally designed to allow Metro-Cammells to be transferred to the Kwun Tong Line when they were unloaded at Hung Hom, but the track was never built as the MTR decided to use lorries to carry all of its train carriages to the Kowloon Bay Depot.[2]

Note that the platforms for both the East Rail Line and the Kwun Tong Line are called platforms 1 and 2.

U Overlying Buildings Education Bureau Kowloon Education Service Centre
Footbridge East Rail Line
platforms
footbridge connecting East Rail Line platforms,
Festival Walk, Suffolk Road
G
Platforms
(Ground)
Exit H Exit, customer service, MTR Shops
Side platform, doors will open on the left
Platform 1      East Rail Line towards Lo Wu or Lok Ma Chau (Tai Wai)
Platform 2      East Rail Line towards Hung Hom (Mong Kok East)
Side platform, doors will open on the left
Exit G Exit, transport interchange, taxi stand
Customer service, MTR Shops
Kwun Tong Line
concourse
Exits, Transport Interchange
C
Concourse
East Rail Line
Northern concourse
Customer service, MTR Shops, toilets
Vending machines, ATMs
Kwun Tong Line
concourse
Customer Service, Vending machines, ATMs
MTR Shops, Octopus promotion machine
iCentre free internet service
East Rail Line
Southern concourse
Customer service, toilets, MTR Shops
Automatic teller machines
Platforms Platform 1      Kwun Tong Line towards Tiu Keng Leng (Lok Fu)
Island platform, doors will open on the right
Platform 2      Kwun Tong Line towards Yau Ma Tei (Shek Kip Mei)

[3]

Entrances and exits

A pedestrian walkway connects the station with Festival Walk, a major shopping centre.[4]

Kwun Tong Line concourse
East Rail Line southern concourse
East Rail Line northern concourse
East Rail Line platform 2 (ground level)
East Rail Line platform 1 (ground level)

Exit H is also accessible from the East Rail Line northern concourse. It is possible to walk between Exit A and E in the vicinity of the station without entering the paid area. The same goes for Exit B, C, F and H.

Transport connections

Minibus Routes

To Academic Community Hall/Broadcast Drive/Baptist University:

To Beacon Hill:

To Kowloon City:

To World Wide Gardens:

Kowloon Tong Railway Station Bus Terminus (Exits A1 or B2)

To Hin King Estate/ Sun Tin Wai Estate:

To Sui Wo Court:

References

  1. "Kowloon Tong Station timetable" (PDF). MTR Corporation. Retrieved 28 July 2014.
  2. 地鐵神秘景點 – Hong Kong Railway Engineering Centre.
  3. "Kowloon Tong Station layout" (PDF). MTR Corporation. Retrieved 28 July 2014.
  4. 1 2 3 4 5 6 "Kowloon Tong Station street map" (PDF). MTR Corporation. Retrieved 28 July 2014.
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