Central South Station

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Central South is a planned MTR station on the Sha Tin to Central Link. When completed, the station will be serviced by East Rail Line, and will be its southern terminus.

[edit] History

When KCRC submitted its first proposal on the new line, the station was named Central West, and had a site to the west of the one in the current proposal.

In 2004 KCRC submitted a new proposal, which pointed out that there are technical problems on the original planned location of the station, due to the soft soil found there. The proposal suggested an option of placing the station somewhere south of Upper Albert Road.[1]

In 2008, the Government announced that it was considering the proposal that MTR had recently submitted, in which Central South station will be cancelled. The Government had promised that the details of the final plan will be revealed in early February.[2]

On 2008-03-11 a new proposal of the project was announced, in which Central South Station will not be built during the meantime as a better site has yet to be found.[3]

[edit] Proposed neighbouring stations

Preceding station   MTR   Following station
Terminus North-south Line
towards Lo Wu or Lok Ma Chau

[edit] References

  1. ^ KCRC (February 2004). Progress report of SCL. Retrieved on 2008-02-05.
  2. ^ "SCL construction details expected soon", Ming Pao, 2008-02-03. Retrieved on 2008-02-05. 
  3. ^ "政府全資374億建沙中線(A4)", Ming Pao, 2008-03-12. Retrieved on 2008-03-12. 
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