Quarry Bay (MTR)

Quarry Bay 鰂魚涌
MTR rapid transit station
Platform 3
Chinese name
Traditional Chinese	鰂魚涌
Simplified Chinese	鲗鱼涌
Literal meaning	Crucian Carp Stream
Transcriptions Standard Mandarin Hanyu Pinyin Zéyúchǒng Yue: Cantonese Yale Romanization jak1 yu4 chung1 IPA [tsɐ́k jy̏ː tsʰʊ́ŋ] Jyutping zak1 jyu4 cung1
General information
Location	Near Wah Shun Gardens, King's Road, Quarry Bay Eastern District, Hong Kong
Coordinates	22°17′16″N 114°12′35″E / 22.2878°N 114.2096°E / 22.2878; 114.2096Coordinates: 22°17′16″N 114°12′35″E / 22.2878°N 114.2096°E / 22.2878; 114.2096
Operated by	MTR Corporation
Line(s)	Island Line      Tseung Kwan O Line
Platforms	4 (island platforms)
Connections	Bus
Construction
Structure type	Underground
Depth	37 metres (121 ft)
Platform levels	2
Disabled access	Yes
Other information
Station code	QUB
History
Opened	31 May 1985 (1985-05-31) (Island Line) 6 August 1989 (1989-08-06) (Kwun Tong Line)
Services
Preceding station   MTR   Following station North Point towards Kennedy Town Island Line Tai Koo towards Chai Wan North Point Terminus Tseung Kwan O Line Yau Tong towards Po Lam or LOHAS Park   Former services   Lam Tin towards Yau Ma Tei Kwun Tong Line North Point Terminus
Location
Quarry Bay Location within the MTR system

Quarry Bay (Chinese: 鰂魚涌) is an underground station on the MTR Island and Tseung Kwan O lines in Quarry Bay on Hong Kong Island. The station livery is teal green.

As with all stations on the Island Line, Quarry Bay is located on the northern shore of Hong Kong Island. Platforms 1 and 2 are built beneath King's Road to Pak Fuk Road. Platforms 3 and 4 are built beneath King's Road to the south of Model Housing Estate.

In the course of constructing Quarry Bay Station, with the initial two platforms, 70,000 cubic metres of rock was excavated and 28,000 cubic metres of concrete was poured. The station opened as part of the second phase of the Island Line on 31 May 1985. The station was expanded in 1989 with the addition of Platforms 3 and 4, which served as the terminus of Kwun Tong Line upon the opening of the Eastern Harbour Crossing.

The station was badly congested in the mid-1990s. The station had a capacity of 30,000 people per hour, and was "close to saturation". Contingency plans were developed to evacuate trains ahead of Quarry Bay to avoid overcrowding, while construction options were planned to alleviate the problem permanently. On 27 September 2001, the Quarry Bay Congestion Relief Works was completed, extending the Kwun Tong Line to North Point Station and providing an easier and more spacious interchange there for Central-bound passengers. On 4 August 2002, the Kwun Tong Line platforms began serving the newly formed Tseung Kwan O Line instead.

The station is noted for having the deepest platforms in the MTR network by metres above sea level to allow the Tseung Kwan O Line tunnel to traverse Victoria Harbour. They are also among the deepest by metres below ground level (with a maximum depth of 37m below ground level,, although HKU and Sai Ying Pun stations are deeper) The station's concourses, however, are at ground level and open directly onto the street. As a result, four sets of escalators and many long passageways are necessary to connect the concourses to the deepest platforms.