Kowloon Tong is a station on MTR's and in

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, Hong Kong. The station serves

Kowloon Tong Kowloon Tong () is an area of Hong Kong located in Kowloon. The majority of the area is in the Kowloon City District. Its exaclocationis south of the Lion Rock, north of Boundary Street, east of the East Rail line and west of Grampian Road. It i ...

and its vicinity, including

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, the

Festival Walk Festival Walk is a shopping centre in Kowloon Tong, Hong Kong developed jointly by Swire Properties and CITIC Pacific between 1993 and 1998. At the time of its opening in November 1998, it was the biggest shopping mall in Hong Kong. Festiv ...

shopping centre,

City University of Hong Kong City University of Hong Kong (CityU) is a world-class public research university located in Kowloon Tong, Hong Kong. It was founded in 1984 as City Polytechnic of Hong Kong and became a fully accredited university in 1994. Currently, CityU is ...

and

Hong Kong Baptist University Hong Kong Baptist University (HKBU) is a publicly funded tertiary liberal arts education, liberal arts institution with a Christian ethics, Christian education heritage. It was established as Hong Kong Baptist College with the support of Ame ...

. The station straddles the boundary between

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and

Sham Shui Po District Sham Shui Po District is one of 18 districts of Hong Kong. It is the poorest district in Hong Kong, with a predominantly working-class population of 405,869 in 2016 and the lowest median household income of all districts. Sham Shui Po has long ...

. This station serves as one of four interchange stations for the , leading up to the

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and entry point to

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. Therefore, it is one of the busiest stations in the system (another interchange / is less convenient).

History

On 1 October 1910, the KCR British Section opened, including Beacon Hill Tunnel, but without any station at Kowloon Tong. Kowloon Tong station on the KCR opened on 4 May 1982, serving as an interchange point with the MTR. On 1 October 1979, the first phase of the MTR's Modified Initial System opened to the public, including Kowloon Tong station. When the Tsuen Wan line opened, the Modified Initial System was split into two lines, and Kowloon Tong become a station of the newly designated Kwun Tong line. A new underground southern concourse for the was opened on 15 April 2004 to increase the station's capacity. The project included a new 60-metre subway linking to the MTR concourse (meaning the station now has two subways for transferring passengers). The new 1,800-square-metre concourse also included a new entrance (entrance D) on To Fuk Road. A passenger lift was also installed at entrance E at this time. On 2 December 2007, the

MTR–KCR merger Two Hong Kong railway companies merged operations in 2007: the Kowloon-Canton Railway (KCR) and the Mass Transit Railway (MTR). Background There had already been some discussion of merging the KCRC itself, which was also government-owned, ...

took place, and Kowloon Tong become solely operated by MTR, but the turnstiles separating the respective concourse of the and were not removed until 28 September 2008.

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 the Metro Cammell EMUs 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. Note that the platforms for both the East Rail line and the Kwun Tong line are called platforms 1 and 2.

Entrances and exits

A pedestrian walkway connects the station with

, a major shopping centre. ;Kwun Tong line concourse *A1: Suffolk Road *A2:

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*B: Suffolk Road *C1:

Hong Kong Productivity Council Hong Kong Productivity Council (HKPC) is a multi-disciplinary organisation which is tasked with promoting and assisting the Hong Kong business sector through the introduction of more efficient and updated business and technological methods. T ...

*C2:

*E: EDB Education Services Centre ;East Rail line southern concourse *D: Public Transport Interchange ;East Rail line northern concourse *F: Kent Road ;East Rail line platform 2 (ground level) *G1: To Fuk Road *G2: Festival Walk ;East Rail line platform 1 (ground level) *H: Hong Kong Productivity Council 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.

Gallery

Kowloon Tong Station Kwun Tong Line platforms 2022 05 part2.jpg, Kwun Tong line platforms (2022) Kowloon Tong Station 2021 04 part8.jpg, Kwun Tong line Platforms 2 (left) and 1 (right) (2021) Kowloon Tong Station 2021 01 part6.jpg, East Rail line northern concourse (2021) Kowloon Tong Station 2021 03 part4.jpg, Exterior of Exit F (2021) Kowloon Tong Station 2021 03 part3.jpg, Paid area of the Kwun Tong line side concourse (2021) Kowloon Tong Station 2021 01 part5.jpg, Transfer passage way between the Kwun Tong and East Rail line platforms (2021) Kowloon Tong Station 2021 01 part3.jpg, East Rail line southern concourse (2021) Kowloon Tong Station 2020 07 part12.jpg, Exit C1 entrance (2021) Kowloon Tong Station 2020 07 part11.jpg, Exit C2 entrance (2021) Kowloon Tong Station 2021 03 part1.jpg, Exit E entrance (2021) Kowloon Tong Station 2020 07 part0.jpg, Exit D entrance (2021) 九龍塘站地面.jpg, Ground level of Kowloon Tong station in February 2009

References

{{Sham Shui Po District Kowloon Tong MTR stations in Kowloon East Rail line Kwun Tong line Former Kowloon–Canton Railway stations Railway stations in Hong Kong opened in 1979 1979 establishments in Hong Kong