Mei Foo Station

Mei Foo 美孚
MTR rapid transit station
Station exterior (West Rail Line building near exit G)
Chinese name
Chinese	美孚
Literal meaning	Gracious Confidence
Transcriptions Standard Mandarin Hanyu Pinyin Měifú Yue: Cantonese Yale Romanization mei5 fu1 Jyutping mei5 fu1
General information
Location	TWL: Mount Sterling, Mei Foo Sun Chuen, Lai Chi Kok WRL: Lai Chi Kok Park, Lai Chi Kok Sham Shui Po District, Hong Kong
Coordinates	22°20′17″N 114°08′15″E / 22.3381°N 114.1376°E / 22.3381; 114.1376Coordinates: 22°20′17″N 114°08′15″E / 22.3381°N 114.1376°E / 22.3381; 114.1376
Owned by	MTR Corporation (Tsuen Wan Line), Kowloon–Canton Railway Corporation (West Rail Line)
Operated by	MTR Corporation
Line(s)	Tsuen Wan Line      West Rail Line
Platforms	4 (1 island platform (Tsuen Wan Line), 2 side platforms (West Rail Line))
Connections	Bus, public light bus
Construction
Structure type	Underground
Disabled access	Yes
Other information
Station code	MEF
History
Opened	17 May 1982 (1982-05-17) (Tsuen Wan Line) 20 December 2003 (2003-12-20) (West Rail Line)
Previous names	Lai Wan
Services
Preceding station   MTR   Following station Lai Chi Kok towards Central Tsuen Wan Line Lai King towards Tsuen Wan Nam Cheong towards Hung Hom West Rail Line Tsuen Wan West towards Tuen Mun
Location
Mei Foo Location within the MTR system

Mei Foo (Chinese: 美孚) is a Hong Kong MTR station located in Mei Foo Sun Chuen, Lai Chi Kok, New Kowloon. It is an interchange station between the Tsuen Wan Line and the West Rail Line, situated between Lai Chi Kok and Lai King stations on the Tsuen Wan Line and Nam Cheong Station and Tsuen Wan West stations on the West Rail Line. Mei Foo Station's livery is blue.

The Tsuen Wan Line part of the station is a simple through station with a central island platform, located under Mount Sterling Mall, a pedestrian-only street between the rows of residential buildings in the Mei Foo Sun Chuen housing estate. The station is designed to facilitate transport needs of the residents of Mei Foo Sun Chuen housing estate, which has nearly 100 buildings and several schools, and the point of transfer between the Kowloon urban area and the new town of Tsuen Wan. If there is heavy traffic on the main road into urban Kowloon, the Kwai Chung Road, many commuters get off their buses and use this station as their link to Kowloon and Central on Hong Kong Island.

The station's original name was Lai Chi Kok during the planning stage, but upon its opening in 1982 the station was called "Lai Wan" (荔灣, meaning Lai Chi Kok Bay), and was renamed to its current name in 1985.

The West Rail Line (then known as KCR West Rail) part of the station was opened on 20 December 2003 along with the rail line. The station is located in the middle of Lai Chi Kok Park, slightly to the west of the Tsuen Wan Line's part of the station. The scenery of the park was greatly destroyed during the construction of the station, but the park was subsequently rebuilt over the station complex. The Tsuen Wan Line and West Rail Line stations merged into one station on 2 December 2007 in the MTR-KCR merger. Architecture firm Aedas designed Mei Foo Station.