Mei Foo (MTR)
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Mei Foo (Chinese: 美孚, Jyutping: mei5 fu1, pinyin: Měifú) is a Hong Kong MTR station located in Tsuen Wan, Kowloon. It is an interchange station between the Tsuen Wan Line and the KCR West Rail. It is 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. Mei Foo's livery is blue.
The station's original name was Lai Chi Kok, 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 MTR station is a simple through station with a central island platform, under a demolished road named Lai Wan Road 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 etate, 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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[edit] Platforms
- Platform 1: Tsuen Wan Line to Tsuen Wan
- Platform 2: Tsuen Wan Line to Central
Platforms 1 and 2 share the same island platform. Unlike Nam Cheong Station, the Mei Foo MTR station and the Mei Foo West Rail station are considerably far apart. To change trains here, it's necessary for the passenger to ride up the escalator and leave the MTR station. Then, they have to get out at Exit D and walk along a connecting passageway for 5 to 10 minutes to reach the West Rail station.
[edit] Entrances/exits
- A Mei Foo Sun Chuen (Stages 1-4, 8)
- B: Mei Foo Sun Chuen (Stage 7), Mount Sterling Mall
- C1: Lai Wan Road
- C2: Mei Foo Sun Chuen (Stage 7), Mount Sterling Mall
- D: Mei Foo West Rail Station
[edit] Transport connections
[edit] Bus routes
Mei Foo is a transportation hub due to its geographic location in the city. All bus routes travelling between 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 Mei Foo (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 Wa Estate, Kwun Tong:
- 2A
To Tsim Sha Tsui Ferry Pier:
- 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:
- 98C, 98S
To Shau Kei Wan:
- 102, N102
To Kennedy Town:
- 904
To Wan Chai Ferry Pier:
- 905
To Kwai Shing:
- N237
To Tuen Mun Ferry Pier:
- N260
To Tin Tsz:
- N269
[edit] 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
[edit] KCR West Rail
The station can be reached through Exit D.
[edit] Neighbouring stations
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toward Central
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Tsuen Wan Line |
toward Tsuen Wan
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toward Nam Cheong
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West Rail
Transfer at: Mei Foo
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toward Tuen Mun
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