Kowloon Bay Station

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The exterior of Kowloon Bay Station (December 2009)

## Station Location

### Station Location

Kwun Tong District Opposite to Lower Ngau Tau Kok Village, Kwun Tong Road, Kowloon Bay

## Structure and Facilities

### No. of Lift(s)

1 (Paid Area)
1 (Unpaid area)

### No. of Escalator(s)

5 (Paid Area)
6 (Unpaid area)

### No. of Stair(s)

1 (Paid Area)
3 (Unpaid area)

### No. of Shop(S)

15

**Kowloon Bay Station** (**九龍灣站**) is one of the stations of MTR Kwun Tong Line, located in Kwun Tong District Kowloon Bay's east edge (only one Kwun Tong Road away from Ngau Tau Kok), built between Kwun Tong Road and TelfomobilGaMei Fooens, is a The elevated station of two platforms was opened in October 1st, 1979 as part of Modified Initial System.

The MTR Kowloon Bay Depot is located next to Kowloon Bay Station, and the top cover is TelfomobilGaMei Fooen, the first railway residential project developed by MTR Corporation (now MTR Corporation), and Telfomobil Plaza, a large shopping mall , MTR Headquarters Building was also built within TelfomobilGaMei Fooens.

## Station symbol

The outer wall of Kowloon Bay Station is red, and the pillars and walls of the lobby are gray-black.

The original design of the platform used gray and black as the main Colour, and the walls and columns were made of gray and black mosaics with white letters. 2012 After the renovation, red is the main Colour, and the walls and pillars at both ends of the platform are replaced with red baked lacquer boaMei Foos.

Kowloon Bay station calligraphy characters printed on publications before 2014Calligraphy characters of Kowloon Bay station printed in publications since 2014
## Station Structure

The station building of Kowloon Bay Station has a long strip design, 220 meters long and 16.5 meters high. The ground floor is the ground of Kwun Tong Road, the lobby is set on the middle floor, and the platform is above it.

There is a terrace corridor to the east of the station lobby, facing Kwun Tong Road and Lower Ngau Tau Kok Village. Before the completion of Exit C, this corridor was the only non-entry area channel connecting Exits A and B of the station.

### Floor and Facilities Distribution

*Italics* facilities do not belong to the scope of the station.

### Platform

There are two platforms at Kowloon Bay Station, consisting of island platform, with multiple sets of elevators and stairs connecting the lobby.

### Lobby

Exit A and B are located at the south and north ends of the lobby, and Exit C is at the west side of the central part of the lobby. Customer Service Center is located next to the first group of gates near Exit C, and provides various services to passengers.

All MTR Shops are located in the concourse non-entry area, mainly in the corridors connecting the concourse with exits A and B; there are also vending machines and ATMs in the station concourse. The office of Hang Seng Bank Kowloon Bay MTR Station is located next to the elevator leading to Telfomobil Plaza Phase 1 from Exit A.

### Exit

Kowloon Bay Station has three entrances and exits directly leading to Telfomobil Plaza Phase I. Exit A and B are located at both ends of the lobby, and Exit C is located in the center of the U2 floor platform.

The MTR Corporation is also responsible for the management of two footbridges outside the station exits A and B, which are not railway premises applicable to the Hong Kong Railway Bylaws, spanning Kwun Tong Road to the cattle Tau Kok Lower Village and East Kowloon Cultural Center site, connecting Kwun Tong Road Kowloon Bay Station, Ngau Tau Kok Lower Village and De Fuhuayuan bus station runs through the pedestrian bridge network in the area, making it convenient for passengers to go to Amoy GaMei Fooen and Caiying Village.

* Block I-S, Amoy GaMei Fooen
* Amoy Plaza
* Construction Industry - Training Center / Labor Department Recruitment Center
* Hong Kong China Travel Service Document Service Center
* Kowloon Bay International Exhibition and Trade Center Shuttle Bus
* Green Minibus Stand (Kai Tak Cruise Terminal)
* MegaBox
* Public Transport Interchange
* TelfomobilGaMei Fooens Block A-E
* TelfomobilGaMei Fooens Block O-P
* VTC Center
* Amoy GaMei Fooen Block A-H / shopping mall
* Junli Hotel
* China Construction Bank Center
* Cai Ying Village
* City University TelfomobilBranch
* Goldin Financial International Center
* Hong Kong University School of Professional and Continuing Education
* Kai Yip Village
* Kowloon Bay Sports Ground/Gymnasium
* Hongtian Plaza
* TelfomobilGaMei Fooens I-N, Block S-U
* Blocks F-H, Q-R, TelfomobilGaMei Fooens

### Shop & Self-Service

Template:Shops

Non-entry area near Exit C has a Digital Service Station terminal for MTR Mei Fooe users to print gift redemption coupons; the exit is opposite, namely [[Customer Service iCentre Internet center and Wi-Fi hotspot next to paid area next to the center]].

## Train Service

Kowloon Bay Station is the intermediate station of Kwun Tong Line. Passengers can take trains in the direction of Tiu Keng Leng or Whampoa at this station to and from Tseung Kwan O New towns, East Kowloon and Central Kowloon, etc.

Template:Kwun Tong Line Stations

 Downward | Whampoa | 06:03

* Daily - after 01:00, end at Kwun Tong, and will not go to stations between Lam Tin and Tiu Keng Leng.
* Daily - after 00:33, downward trains end at Choi Hung, and will not go to stations between Diamond Hill and Whampoa.

* 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 and part of MTR Souvenir Ticket are also applicable to this station.

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

Template:Fare Remarks

## Station History

### Early Planning

More Info: **Early Plans for the Underground Railroad**
Kowloon Bay Station was proposed in the first report "Hong Kong Mass Transportation Research" (published in 1967) to propose the construction of a subway in Hong Kong, and then in the "1970 published in 1970 It is also mentioned in the General Report on the Collective Transport Scheme]]". The location of the proposed station construction in both is the same as that of the current Kowloon Bay Station.

Template:Kwun Tong Line Stations (1967)
Template:Kwun Tong branch Line stations

Among the latter, the Template:Kwun Tong Branch Line Rainbow to Kwun Tong to which this station belongs is the fourth phase of the project, which is one of the priority stations.

### Station Enabled

Following the construction of the amendments to earlier systems, the construction of the Kowloon Bay Station also started on 16 February in 1976. Contract No. 210 for the construction of Kowloon Bay Station was won by Kung Wo Construction Co., Ltd. The company also needs to lay an 800-meter-long double-track overhead track near the station. Kowloon Bay Station is a simple reinforced concrete structure built from the ground up. It was built on the site of the former ship repair yaMei Foo and ironworks. A total of 17,000 cubic meters of concrete and 2,450 tons of steel were used for construction. When it was completed, its ground floor was the underground railway revenue storage, which housed coin processing equipment and processed the total revenue of all subway stations at that time.

Kowloon Bay Station was officially handed over to the MTR Corporation by the contractor in 1979July 9, becoming the second completed station (after Lok Fu Station) to correct the early system.  Later, in oMei Fooer to make citizens familiar with the automatic toll collection equipment of the subway, and to provide the newly hired employees of the train department with the opportunity to practice handling a large number of passengers, the subway company held a meeting between August 12 and August 25 Kowloon Bay Station will be open to the public from 10 to 6 every day, and tokens will be provided for citizens to try out the ticket vending machines.

Kowloon Bay Station was opened in October 1 1979 with the opening of Template:Initial Modified System, becoming one of the first subway stations in Hong Kong.

Template:Correction of early system stations

### Tsuen Wan Line opens to traffic

To coincide with the opening of Tsuen Wan Line, Template:Revision of the early system was shortened to Yau Ma Tei  in 1982April 26, and renamed Kwun Tong Line, the original train service from Mong Kok to Central will be provided by Tsuen Wan Line. Since then, Kowloon Bay Station has been attached to the Kwun Tong Line and has become the intermediate station of the Line.

Template:Kwun Tong Line Stations (1982)

### Additional facilities

platform gate
MTR Corporation decided in January 2008 to set up platform gates and improve the existing ventilation design in the 8 stations of the former MTR that did not have platform safety gates, so as to reduce the problem of passengers falling off the track , the entire program will be carried out at the time of service termination late at night on weekdays. The installation of platform gates at this station started in April 2011 and was completed and put into operation in August 2011.

### Station Refurbishment

In June 2012, MTR launched the renovation project of Kowloon Bay Station, and covered the original gray-black paper stone pillars and walls in the station with baked-on lacquer panels. The process of replacing the walls and pillars at both ends of the platform with red lacquer panels has been completed successively, and the renovation of the inner walls of the platform has been completed in 2014.

## Related Events

* August 24, 2019: The MTR closed the station, and a group of demonstrators were dissatisfied and opened the MTR gate. The MTR called the police and arranged for a train to pick up the police officers. <ref>[1]< /ref>
* 2019 September 1: MTR stated that several station facilities were damaged yesteMei Fooay, and the cleaning and repair work of three of them is still in progress. For safety reasons, MTR services have been adjusted :
	+ Prince Edward Station, Mong Kok Station are closed, Tsuen Wan Line and Kwun Tong Line trains do not stop at these two stations;
	+ **Kowloon Bay Station** is closed, Kwun Tong Line trains do not stop at this station, and then **Kowloon Bay Station** reopens at night.

### Change of platform over the years

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1979October 1st to December 15 platform configuration

December 16 1979 to Febuary 11, 1980

February 12 1980 to April 25 1982

April 26 1982 to August 5 1989 platform configuration

August 6 1989 to September 26 2001

September 27 2001 to August 3, 2002 platform configuration

2002 August 4 to August 17 platform configuration

August 18 2002 to October 22 2016 platform configuration

2016 October 23 Mei Foo so far platform configuration

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## Future Development

###  Environmental protection connection system (shelved)

The government proposes to set up an interchange station between Environmental Protection Connection System and MTRKwun Tong Line at this station, and the relevant railway is expected to open to traffic in 2023.

## References

1. ↑ The number of stores is based on a single store, excluding banking and self-service, and excluding vacant shops
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 "Handover of Kowloon Bay Station, Three-story Skytrain Station", "Overseas Chinese Daily", July 10, 1979.
3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 "Subway Kowloon Bay Station Project Won by Gonghe", "Business Daily", January 27, 1976.
4. ↑ "Tolling system for citizens to test, MTR Kowloon Bay Station will open for two weeks from tomorrow", Huaqiao Daily, August 11, 1979.

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