Tai Wo Hau Station
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Tai Wo Hau
大窩口  |
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| Chinese name | |||||||||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 大窩口 | ||||||||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 大窝口 | ||||||||||||
| Literal meaning | Big den (and) mouth | ||||||||||||
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Kwok Shui Road Park, Castle Peak Road — Kwai Chung, Tai Wo Hau Tsuen Wan District, Hong Kong |
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| Coordinates | 22°22′15″N 114°07′30″E / 22.3708°N 114.1250°ECoordinates: 22°22′15″N 114°07′30″E / 22.3708°N 114.1250°E | ||||||||||||
| Operated by | MTR Corporation | ||||||||||||
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| Platforms | 2 (island platform) | ||||||||||||
| Connections | Bus, public light bus | ||||||||||||
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| Structure type | Underground | ||||||||||||
| Platform levels | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Disabled access | Yes | ||||||||||||
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| Station code | TWH | ||||||||||||
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 Tai Wo Hau
Location within the MTR system
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| Transcriptions | |
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| Standard Mandarin | |
| Hanyu Pinyin | Dàwōkǒu |
| Yue: Cantonese | |
| Yale Romanization | daai6 wo1 hau2 |
| Jyutping | daai6 wo1 hau2 |
Tai Wo Hau (Chinese: 大窩口) is an MTR station between Tsuen Wan and Kwai Hing stations on the Tsuen Wan Line. It serves the areas of Kwai Yin Court and Tai Wo Hau Estate in the Kwai Tsing District, and some resited villages (such as Kwan Mun Hau Tsuen) in the Tsuen Wan District of Hong Kong. These villages were originally in Tsuen Wan town centre, being moved for new town development.
Tai Wo Hau Station was one of the first railway stations in the New Territories; and the first underground one. All other New Territories stations on the Tsuen Wan Line are either at surface level or on viaducts. Lai King Station cuts through a hillside slope, and all other New Territories underground stations were opened some years later.
The station is relatively less busy in the system because of its distance to nearby bus stops and settlements.
The station was built on the site of a park. The 280 metre long, 22 metre wide, 15 metre deep station box was built bottom-up within a sheetpile cofferdam. The tunnel between Tai Wo Hau and Kwai Hing Stations was completed in July 1980 using the drill-and-blast method. In 1984, the New Territories Development Department awarded a contract for the construction of a park above the station to replace the one which originally existed there. This park is now called Kwok Shui Road Park.
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