Fo Tan Station

Fo Tan 火炭
MTR rapid transit station
Exit B
Chinese name
Traditional Chinese
Cantonese Yale	Fó taan
Hanyu Pinyin	Huǒtàn
Transcriptions Standard Mandarin Hanyu Pinyin Huǒtàn Yue: Cantonese Yale Romanization Fó taan IPA [fɔ̌ː.tʰāːn] Jyutping Fo2 taan3
General information
Location	Lok King Street, Fo Tan Sha Tin District, Hong Kong
Coordinates	22°23′43″N 114°11′54″E / 22.3953°N 114.1982°E / 22.3953; 114.1982Coordinates: 22°23′43″N 114°11′54″E / 22.3953°N 114.1982°E / 22.3953; 114.1982
Owned by	Kowloon–Canton Railway Corporation
Operated by	MTR Corporation
Line(s)	East Rail Line
Platforms	4 (island platforms)
Tracks	3
Connections	Bus, public light bus
Construction
Structure type	At-grade
Platform levels	1
Disabled access	Yes
History
Opened	15 February 1985 (1985-02-15)
Services
Preceding station   MTR   Following station Sha Tin towards Hung Hom East Rail Line University towards Lo Wu or Lok Ma Chau
Location
Fo Tan Location within the MTR system

Fo Tan (Chinese: 火炭; Cantonese Yale: Fó taan}}) is a station on the East Rail Line of the Mass Transit Railway (MTR) system in Hong Kong. It is located in the Fo Tan area of Sha Tin District, between Sha Tin and University stations on the East Rail Line's main branch. The Racecourse station is located parallel to Fo Tan, on the line's Racecourse branch.

The passenger station serves some apartment buildings, villages, and a medium-sized industrial zone, as well as the Fo Tan Railway House () of the MTRC. During rush hour, some northbound trains terminate at this station before departing southwards. Some trains do not run through this station on race days, and are instead diverted to stop at Racecourse.

The station was opened in 1985, two years after the total electrification of the railway. It was featured at the end of the 1989 film Mr Coconut, starring Tony Leung Ka-Fai.

In addition, two tracks spur off at the northeast of the station, and lead into a goods yard north of the station. Freight trains stopped there regularly before their demise on the East Rail Line in 2010; the yard has since been used occasionally for rolling stock deliveries.

The station has three tracks, with two island platforms between.

Trains normally stop at platforms 1 and 4. The centre track is used in the following occasions:

Originally, the southern concourse was the only concourse in this station. Because the two concourses were built in separate years, they were not originally interconnected. MTR renovated the station in 2015, connecting the two concourses in the process. The new link opened on 12 December 2015.