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Kowloon Tong Station (KCR)

Kowloon Tong
九龍塘
MTR
MTR rapid transit station
Kowloon Tong Station 2013.JPG
Platform 1 (East Rail Line)
Chinese name
Traditional Chinese
Simplified Chinese
Cantonese Yale Gáulùngtòng
Hanyu Pinyin Jiǔlóngtáng
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)
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 logo.svg MTR   Following station
towards Whampoa
Kwun Tong Line
towards Tiu Keng Leng
towards Hung Hom
East Rail Line
towards Lo Wu or Lok Ma Chau
Location
Hong Kong MTR system map
Hong Kong MTR system map
Kowloon Tong
Location within the MTR system

Kowloon Tong (Chinese: 九龍塘; Cantonese Yale: Gáulùngtòng) 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.


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