Formosa East station

Formosa East 	Formosa East 	Formosa East
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Station concourse in August 2022	Station concourse in August 2022	Station concourse in August 2022
Station details 	Station details 	Station details
Location 	Victoria Avenue, Formosa 	Victoria Avenue, Formosa
Borough 	Amsterdam 	Amsterdam
Owner 	Transport for Wentworth 	Transport for Wentworth
Operator 	Wentworth Metro 	Wentworth Metro
Line(s) 	Circle Line 	Circle Line
Platforms 	2 (1 island) 	2 (1 island)
Transfers 	None 	None
Exits 	2 	2
Construction 	Construction 	Construction
Structure 	Underground 	Underground
Platform levels 	1 	1
Parking 	No 	No
Disabled access 	Yes 	Yes
History 	History 	History
Opened 	2 February 1959 	2 February 1959
Other information 	Other information 	Other information
Station code 	 	
Staffed 	No 	No
Daily ridership 	6,100 (TBA) 	6,100 (TBA)
Other languages 	Other languages 	Other languages
Dutch 	Formosa-Oost 	Formosa-Oost
Chinese 	东福摩沙 	东福摩沙
Pinyin 	Dōng Fúmóshā 	Dōng Fúmóshā
Japanese 	東フォルモサ 	東フォルモサ
Romaji 	Higashi-Forumosa 	Higashi-Forumosa
Services 	Services 	Services
Preceding station 	Wentworth Metro 	Following station
Ashbury Stadiumanticlockwise 	align="center" 	Metropolitanclockwise
Formosa East is a Wentworth Metro station on the Circle Line. It serves the inner western suburb of Formosa.
Formosa East station is located at the eastern end of Formosa and serves as an alternate station for access to Ashbury Stadium. The underground concourse between the two exits doubles as a subway tunnel allowing pedestrians to cross the busy Victoria Avenue. It has the second-lowest ridership of any station on the line, after neighbouring Ashbury Stadium station. The distance between Ashbury Stadium and Formosa East is the shortest between any two stations in the Wentworth Metro network, at just 420 metres.
Formosa East is the only station on the Circle Line to utilise half-height platform gates instead of full height platform screen doors, due to technical difficulties arising from the narrow width of the island platform, as well as the station's low ridership.
==History==
Formosa East was opened in 1959 as part of the first stage of the Circle Line. In early planning documents from the 1940s, it was referred to as "Victoria Avenue" station. The station was built to serve the suburb of Formosa as well as Wentworth Stadium (now Ashbury Stadium), as a station serving the stadium itself was not included in the original Circle Line plan.
==Station facilities==
The Formosa East station concourse includes a WHSmith convenience store and a Sharetea bubble tea store. 
==Services==
Platform	Line	Services
1 	 	outer loop (clockwise)
2 	 	inner loop (anticlockwise)
==Exits==
Exit	Access	Destinations 	Connections
1 	 	Victoria Ave (south side)	
2 	 	Victoria Ave (north side)