- Mei Foo Station
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Mei Foo
美孚Line Tsuen Wan Line
West Rail LineCode MEF Service hours 0609/0115 Connections Bus, Minibus District Sham Shui Po Area Lai Chi Kok Map MTR Website Coordinates 22°20′17″N 114°08′15″E / 22.338099°N 114.137559°ECoordinates: 22°20′17″N 114°08′15″E / 22.338099°N 114.137559°E Opened May 17, 1982 (Tsuen Wan Line) /
December 20, 2003 (West Rail Line)Type of station Underground (West Rail Line)
Ground (West Rail Line)Type of platforms Island (Tsuen Wan Line)/
Side (West Rail Line)No. of platforms 4 No. of exits 8 No. of shops 18 Station location
Mei Foo Station Chinese 美孚 Literal meaning Gracious Confidence Transcriptions Mandarin - Hanyu Pinyin Měifú Cantonese (Yue) - Jyutping mei5 fu1 - Yale Romanization mei5 fu1 Mei Foo is a Hong Kong MTR station located in Mei Foo Sun Chuen, Lai Chi Kok, 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's livery is blue in Tsuen Wan Line part and white in West Rail Line part.
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 Mei Foo Sun Chuen housing estate. The station is designed to facilitate the transportation of the residents of Mei Foo Sun Chuen housing estate, which has nearly 100 buildings and several schools, and eventually became the station 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 Central.
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History
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"[1] (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[citation needed] in the MTR-KCR merger.
Station layout
R
RoofRoof garden Exit G, Lai Chi Kok Park, footbridge to Ching Lai Court, Lai King Hill Road C
ConcourseWest Rail Line
concourseExit F, customer services, washrooms MTRShops, vending machinem, ATMs P
PlatformsSide platform, doors will open on the left Platform 1 West Rail Line towards Tuen Mun Platform 2 West Rail Line towards Hung Hom Side platform, doors will open on the left G
GroundInterchange passageway Exit D, Lai Chi Kok Park, Lai Wan Road Tsuen Wan Line Concourse Exit A, B, C, E, Lai Wan Road, Mei Foo Sun Chuen L1
SubwaySubway Interchange passageway connecting West Rail Line
and Tsuen Wan Line ConcoursesL2
ConcourseTsuen Wan Line
concourseCustomer Service, MTRShops Hang Seng Bank, vending machine, ATMs Octopus promotion machine L3
PlatformsPlatform 1 Tsuen Wan Line towards Tsuen Wan Island platform, doors will open on the right Platform 2 Tsuen Wan Line towards Central Both Tsuen Wan Line platforms share the same island platform. Unlike Nam Cheong Station, the Tsuen Wan Line and West Rail Line platforms are considerably far apart. The concourses for these platforms are a five to ten minute walk along a connecting passageway. The West Rail Line concourse is on ground level, with the platforms right under it.
Entrances/exits
- A Broadway
- B: Mount Sterling Mall
- C1: Lai Wan Road
- C2: Humbert Street
- D: Lai Chi Kok Park (Lai Wan Road)
- E: Lai Wan Road
- F: Lai Chi Kok Park
- G: Lai King Hill Road
Transport connections
Bus routes
Mei Foo is a transportation hub due to its geographic location in the north-western end of Kowloon. All bus routes travelling between the suburbs of Tuen Mun, Tsuen Wan, Kwai Chung, Tsing Yi and Yuen Long in northwestern Hong Kong and the urban area of Kowloon and Hong Kong Island have to pass through Mei Foo. Major routes with stop at the "Mei Foo Railway Station" bus stop (Exit B for Kowloon bound buses and Exit A for New Territories bound buses) include: 30, 30X, 33A, 35S, 36A, 37, 38P, 40, 41, 41A, 42, 42A, 43C, 44, 44S, 45, 46, 52X, 58X, 59A, 59S, 59X, 60X, 63X, 66, 66X, 67X, 68X, 69X, 234P, 234X, 238P, 238X, 265B, E21, E21A, N21, N21A, N241 etc.
Additionally, the following bus routes terminate at Mei Foo bus terminus (Exit A) or the nearby Lai Chi Kok (formerly Lai Yuen) bus terminus: To Lok Wah Estate, Kwun Tong:
- 2A
To Star Ferry, Tsim Sha Tsui:
- 6, 6A
To Kowloon City Ferry Pier:
- 6C
To Riviera Gardens, Tsuen Wan:
- 38A
To Hin Keng Estate, Tai Wai:
- 46X, 86B
To Wong Nai Tau, Shatin:
- 86
To Hang Hau (North):
- 98C, 98S
To Shau Kei Wan:
- 102, N122
To South Horizons:
- 171
To Kennedy Town:
- 904
To Wan Chai Ferry Pier:
- 905
To Kwai Shing:
- N237
To Tuen Mun Ferry Pier:
- N260
To Tin Tsz:
- N269
Minibus routes
- 81K (Exit D) - To Hoi Lai Estate via Banyan Garden
- 90A (Exit A) - To Kwai Chung Hospital via Ching Lai Court
- 90M (Exit A) - To Highland Park via Ching Lai Court, Princess Margaret Hospital, Lai King Estate and Lai Yiu Estate
- 90P (Exit A) - To Princess Margaret Hospital via Ching Lai Court
- 92M (Exit A) - To Wah Yuen Chuen via Ching Lai Court, Princess Margaret Hospital and Cho Yiu Chuen
Neighbouring stations
Preceding station MTR Following station towards CentralTsuen Wan Line towards Tsuen Wantowards Hung HomWest Rail Line towards Tuen MunReferences
- ^ Yu, Pui-kwan, Robin, "A study on quasi-public space in large scale private residential development, case in Hong Kong", p. 28, University of Hong Kong, 2007
Categories:- Lai Chi Kok
- MTR stations
- Railway stations opened in 1982
- Former KCR stations
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