Traditional Chinese 鰂魚涌 Literal meaning Crucian Carp Stream Yale Romanization jak1 yu4 chung1 Address Hong Kong Platforms in use 4 (island platforms) | Simplified Chinese 鲗鱼涌 Hanyu Pinyin IPA [tsɐ́k jy̏ː tsʰʊ́ŋ] Level 2 | |
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Similar Yau Tong Station, Shek Kip Mei Station, Sai Wan Ho Station, Shau Kei Wan Station, Lok Fu Station | ||
Hong kong mtr quarry bay station
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.
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Location
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.
History
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.
Station layout
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.
Since platforms 3 and 4 were built some time after platforms 1 and 2, no cross-platform interchanges are available in Quarry Bay station. Commuters interchanging between the two lines have to walk through a long passageway and two flights of escalators for about 5 minutes to reach the platforms of the other line.
This inconvenience and increasing passenger numbers were what prompted the MTRC to undergo the Quarry Bay Congestion Relief Works, which extended the Kwun Tong Line one station to the west to North Point Station, where cross-platform interchanges are provided. The platform numbers of platforms 3 and 4 were switched when the Kwun Tong Line was extended to North Point in 2001.
Entrances and exits
Entrances/exits A and B share the same concourse while entrance/exit C has a separate concourse.