Olympic Station

Appearance of Olympic Station (June 2009)

The **Olympic Station** (**奧運站**) is one of the stations of the MTR Tung Chung Line, located in Yau Tsim Mong District, West of Tai Kok Tsui, located on the newly reclaimed land at the boundary of Cherry Street, West Kowloon Highway and Lin Cheung Road. The station was designed by CYS Associates (Hong Kong) Limited (周余石（香港）有限公司). It started construction in 1994 and opened simultaneously with Tung Chung Line on 22 June 1998.

Airport Express passes through this station, and Tuen Ma Line passes in parallel with the Lin Cheung Road southbound line next to this station, but neither line has a station here .

## Station symbol

The station was officially named the Olympic Station on December 16, 1996, to pay tribute to the achievements of Hong Kong athletes in the Atlanta Olympic and to carry forward the Olympic spirit. Steel blue is the main color inside the station, and murals representing different sports are printed on the platform walls, closely following the theme of "Olympic".

Olympic station calligraphy characters printed on publications before 2014Olympic station calligraphy characters printed on publications since 2014
## Station structure

### Platform

   Olympic Station has two side platforms for use by Tung Chung Line. Between the two platforms is the Airport Express track, but the line does not stop at this station, and there is no platform.

On the walls of the two platforms, there are patterns of athletes competing in different sports, which is a major feature of this station.

 Airport Express rail (train to Hong Kong direction)→

### Concourse

The station concourse of Olympic Station is located above the platform.

The paid area of this station is located in the center of the lobby, and the two ends are non-paid areas, leading to exits A and B and exits C to E respectively. There are non-paid passages between the two. Customer Service Center is located in the center of the lobby; there are also 11 MTR Shops, vending machines and automatic teller machines in the lobby.

### Exits

There are five major exits in Olympic Station, which are subdivided into 12 exits, distributed at both ends of the lobby.

As the Olympic Station is surrounded by two high-speed roads (West Kowloon Highway and Lin Cheung Road), the Olympic Station project includes the construction of five footbridges connecting the station and surrounding development projects to provide pedestrians with a convenient connection network, so this All exits of the station are connected to pedestrian bridges, leading to many surrounding housing estates and shopping malls, and at the same time serving as a passage for pedestrians to cross the road.

Although some exits are located at both ends of the lobby, their destinations are very close. For example, Exit A2 and Exit E are located at both ends of the lobby, but the destinations are also in the Olympian City Phase I shopping mall, and they are only two bunk.

## Train Service

Olympic Station is the intermediate station of the Tung Chung Line. Passengers can take trains in the direction of Tung Chung or Hong Kong at this station to and from Lantau Island and Tsing Yi , West Kowloon and the North Shore of Hong Kong Island.

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* Passengers might not enter gates 5 minutes prior to the departure of last train.
* Please refer to the Service Hours List of the MTR Website.

## Station Ticketing

MTR City Ticket, Tung Chung - Hong Kong Monthly Pass Enhanced Edition and some  MTR Commemorative Ticket are also applicable to this station.

The fare from this station to the station of each traffic line:

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## Station History

The Olympic Station built in Tai Kok TsuiReclamation Area is one of the stations on the Tung Chung Line. It started construction as early as 1994 and was advanced in 1998 Completed, the total investment amounted to 426 million Hong Kong dollars.

### Station Naming

Airport Railway The station located in Tai Kok Tsui is planned to be named "**Tai Kok Tsui Station**" (**大角咀站**) after the area where it is located at the planning stage. However, MTR Corporation announced in July 1996 that it was considering changing the name of the station in response to the request of the real estate developer, and planned to adopt the "**Cherry Station**" (**櫻桃街站**) suggested by residents in the area. **) one.**

Later, the Hong Kong team achieved unprecedented success in the 1996 Summer Olympic and Paralympics held in Atlanta, USA. Windsurfing player Lee Lai Shan even won Hong Kong's first Olympic medal in history. In addition to rewarding Lee with free rides for life, the MTR Corporation also reached an agreement with the Hong Kong Federation of Hong Kong and the Olympic Committee. On 16 December of the same year, the station was renamed "**Olympic Station**" in recognition of the outstanding achievements of local athletes. In keeping with the theme of the "Olympic Games", there are also patterns of various athletes competing on the walls of the platform at this station.

### Station Openend

The Olympic Station was opened on 22 June 1998 with the opening of Tung Chung Line.

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### Additional facilities

The urban renewal project "Hai Tao Wan" was completed in mid-2009. Therefore, a new exit was added to the Olympic Station. The footbridge branched from Exit C, and another bridge across Haijing Street connected to West Kowloon at the base of Hai Tao Wan. shopping mall.

The exit was designated as exit C5, and the project was completed in July 2009 and opened for use in August of the same year.

### Sell Smart Tickets

The MTR has gradually updated its ticketing system since the end of 2013, replacing the magnetic tape tickets that have been used since the opening of the subway with multi-purpose smart tickets. Olympic Station became the first station to sell smart one-way ticket. One-way ticket vending machine and Customer Service Center have changed to sell new tickets, attracting many railway fans and ticket collectors to go to this station to buy them.

### Change of platform over the years

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22 June 1998 to 5 July 1998 platform configuration

Platform configurations from 6 July 1998 to 19 December 2005

20 December 2005 to Template:Tung Chung Line Extension platform configuration before opening to traffic

Platform configuration after the opening of Template:Tung Chung Line Extension and before the opening of Template:North Island Line

Template:North Hong Kong Island Line platform configuration after opening to traffic

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## Future Development

### Template:North Island Line

Template:North Island Line Stations
After the opening of Template:North Hong Kong Island Line, the platform configuration of Olympic Station is as follows:

## External Links

* Olympic Station Street Map
* Olympic Station Facilities Distribution Map
* Olympic Station Train Service Timetable
* MTR Line Encyclopedia
* MTR Past and Present: Olympic Station

## References

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2. ↑ Situ Yuyi: "New MTR station may be renamed", South China Morning Post, 3 July 1996.
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