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Traditional Chinese | 尖東 | |||||||||||||||
Simplified Chinese | 尖东 | |||||||||||||||
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Salisbury Road, Chatham Road South × Middle Road, Tsim Sha Tsui Yau Tsim Mong District, Hong Kong |
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Coordinates | 22°17′44″N 114°10′31″E / 22.2955°N 114.1754°ECoordinates: 22°17′44″N 114°10′31″E / 22.2955°N 114.1754°E | |||||||||||||||
Owned by | KCR Corporation | |||||||||||||||
Operated by | MTR Corporation | |||||||||||||||
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Platforms | 2 (1 island platform) | |||||||||||||||
Tracks | 2 | |||||||||||||||
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Structure type | Underground | |||||||||||||||
Disabled access | Yes | |||||||||||||||
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Station code | ETS | |||||||||||||||
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Standard Mandarin | |
Hanyu Pinyin | Jiāndōng |
Yue: Cantonese | |
Jyutping | zim1 dung1 |
East Tsim Sha Tsui (Chinese: 尖東) is a station of the Mass Transit Railway (MTR) system of Hong Kong. It is currently an intermediate station on the West Rail Line.
The station was built to alleviate surface traffic jams and passenger congestion at Kowloon Tong Station. The distance from Hung Hom to the station is about one kilometre with the journey time of around two minutes.
This station is linked with Tsim Sha Tsui Station of the Tsuen Wan Line by subways (underground pedestrian tunnels).
An early predecessor to East Tsim Sha Tsui, named Mariner in the East Kowloon Line 1970 scheme, was intended to provide interchange to Tsim Sha Tsui of the Kong Kow Line (now part of Tsuen Wan Line).
Plans for East Tsim Sha Tsui were subsequently revived in 1993 when the plans for East Kowloon Line were modified to become a medium-capacity system as part of an Eastern Corridor with transfer to the Lantau Airport Railway (now Airport Express and Tung Chung Line). The contract to construct East Tsim Sha Tsui was subsequently awarded to a consortium consisting of Hong Kong-based Gammon Construction and Japan-based Nishimatsu.
East Tsim Sha Tsui was opened on 24 October 2004 as a southward extension of the KCR East Rail from Hung Hom, and served as the southern terminus of the East Rail Line until 16 August 2009. As a result, the 12-car-long platform screen doors give the station the longest platform screen doors in the world. However, due to the shorter length of the West Rail Line trains, the ends of the platforms are now out of use and closed off.