Yau Ma Tei, formerly named Waterloo after Waterloo Road, is an MTR station located in

Yau Ma Tei Yau Ma Tei is an area in the Yau Tsim Mong District in the south of the Kowloon Peninsula in Hong Kong. Name ''Yau Ma Tei'' is a phonetic transliteration of the name (originally written as ) in Cantonese. It can also be spelt as Yaumatei, ...

, Kowloon. It is served by the and the . The station opened on 22 December 1979 and was renamed as Yau Ma Tei on 31 May 1985 along with Argyle (Mong Kok) and Chater (Central). Yau Ma Tei is an interchange station, even though the platforms are not designed for

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. After the Kwun Tong line has been extended to , it is used by northbound passengers on one line to change to southbound trains on the other line. This station is used by many students during commuting hours, since it is in the vicinity of many large schools. The station's livery colour is a light grey. Red, white, and blue stripes, which is located prominently adorned the station walls until they were removed as part of renovation works in 2005 which also saw the original

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typeface, used in station name signs, replaced by Myriad.

History

On 16 December 1979, Modified Initial System was extended from to

Tsim Sha Tsui station Tsim Sha Tsui is an MTR station on the . The station, originally opened on 16 December 1979 on the , serves the area of Tsim Sha Tsui. East Tsim Sha Tsui station on the , which opened on 24 October 2004, is connected to this station by underg ...

. However, Yau Ma Tei station was opened on 22nd of that month as an infill station. When the station was first opened, only upper level platform was in use. Two weeks before Tsuen Wan line opened, on 26 April 1982, MTR Corporation split the Modified Initial System into Kwun Tong line and Tsuen Wan line, in order to let passengers to get used to transfer at Mong Kok station. On the same day, the lower level platform was put into use. Tsuen Wan line was fully operational on 17 May 1982. Kwun Tong line was extended to Whampoa station on 23 October 2016.

Station layout

From the scissor crossing after Whampoa terminus to north of Yau Ma Tei, the Kwun Tong line drives on the right side of the tunnel, as opposed to almost everywhere else in the MTR, where the driving direction is usually on the left (except for the ). The difference in driving directionality is due to the track layout between Yau Ma Tei and Mong Kok stations. The

Kwun Tong line extension The Kwun Tong line extension (abbreviated KTE; ) is an extension of the MTR rapid transit network in Hong Kong. It extends the existing train service of Kwun Tong line to Ho Man Tin station and Whampoa station. Construction started on 25 July ...

towards

Whampoa station Whampoa () is the western terminus of the of the MTR in Hong Kong. It is located in Hung Hom, Kowloon City District within the developed area of Whampoa Garden immediately adjacent to the stern of '' The Whampoa'', a symbol of identity for the ...

via opened on 23 October 2016. In preparation, the numbers of the Kwun Tong line platforms were swapped starting on 11 June 2016, and platform 4 became alighting-only (and platform 3 boarding-only) from 21 August 2016. After the opening of the Kwun Tong line extension, Yau Ma Tei became an interchange station between the Kwun Tong line and the Tsuen Wan line, with each line using platforms on a different level.

Entrances/exits

* A1: Pitt Street * A2: Pitt Street, YMCA Kowloon Centre,

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* B1:

Nathan Road Nathan Road is the main thoroughfare in Kowloon, Hong Kong, aligned south–north from Tsim Sha Tsui to Sham Shui Po. It is lined with shops and restaurants and throngs with visitors, and was known in the post–World War II years as the Golden ...

* B2:

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* C: Man Ming Lane (for

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) * D: Waterloo Road

Gallery

Yau Ma Tei Station Tsuen Wan Line platforms 2022 05 part2.jpg, Tsuen Wan line platforms (May 2022) Yau Ma Tei Station 2020 07 part9.jpg, Station concourse with the customer service centre booth sitting between the paid and unpaid areas (July 2020)

References

{{Tsuen Wan Line navbox Kwun Tong line MTR stations in Kowloon Railway stations in Hong Kong opened in 1979 Tsuen Wan line Yau Ma Tei