Kowloon Tong (MTR)

Kowloon Tong 九龍塘
MTR rapid transit station
Platform 1 (East Rail Line)
Chinese name
Traditional Chinese	九龍塘
Simplified Chinese	九龙塘
Literal meaning	Pond of nine dragons
Transcriptions Standard Mandarin Hanyu Pinyin Jiǔlóng Táng Yue: Cantonese Yale Romanization gau2 lung4 tong4 IPA [kɐ̌ulʊ̏ŋ tʰɔ̏ːŋ] Jyutping gau2 lung4 tong4
General information
Location	Suffolk Road × To Fuk Road, Kowloon Tong Kowloon City District, Hong Kong
Coordinates	22°20′13″N 114°10′34″E / 22.3370°N 114.1762°E / 22.3370; 114.1762Coordinates: 22°20′13″N 114°10′34″E / 22.3370°N 114.1762°E / 22.3370; 114.1762
Owned by	MTR Corporation (Kwun Tong Line); Kowloon–Canton Railway Corporation (East Rail Line)
Operated by	MTR Corporation
Line(s)	Kwun Tong Line      East Rail Line
Platforms	4 (1 island platform (Kwun Tong Line) and 2 side platforms (East Rail Line))
Connections	Bus, public light bus
Construction
Structure type	Underground (Kwun Tong Line); at-grade (East Rail Line)
Platform levels	2
Disabled access	Yes
History
Opened	1 October 1979 (1979-10) (Kwun Tong Line) 4 May 1982 (1982-05-04) (East Rail Line)
Electrified	1983 (East Rail Line)
Services
Preceding station   MTR   Following station Shek Kip Mei towards Whampoa Kwun Tong Line Lok Fu towards Tiu Keng Leng Mong Kok East towards Hung Hom East Rail Line Tai Wai towards Lo Wu or Lok Ma Chau
Location
Kowloon Tong Location within the MTR system

Kowloon Tong (Chinese: 九龍塘) is a station on MTR's Kwun Tong Line and East Rail Line in New Kowloon, Hong Kong. The station serves Kowloon Tong and its vicinity, including Yau Yat Tsuen, the Festival Walk shopping centre, City University of Hong Kong and Hong Kong Baptist University.

This station serves as one of the two interchange stations for the East Rail Line, leading up to the New Territories and entry point to mainland China. Therefore, it is one of the busiest stations in the system. The load of Kowloon Tong station was heavily reduced, when a new interchange station was built at Tsim Sha Tsui/East Tsim Sha Tsui. It is because, prior to the commissioning of the KCR East Rail extension to East Tsim Sha Tsui station, Kowloon Tong station was the only station offering such interchange to passengers.

A new concourse for East Rail Line was opened on 15 April 2004 to increase its capacity.

On 28 September 2008, turnstiles separating the respective concourse of Kwun Tong Line and East Rail Line were removed.

There is a reserved space for a track connecting the East Rail Line and the Kwun Tong Line in the westbound tunnel just outside Kowloon Tong station towards Shek Kip Mei. The space was originally designed to allow Metro-Cammells to be transferred to the Kwun Tong Line when they were unloaded at Hung Hom, but the track was never built as the MTR decided to use lorries to carry all of its train carriages to the Kowloon Bay Depot.