Hung Hom Station

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Hung Hom 紅磡

Platform of the station

Line East Rail Intercity Code HUH Service hours 0530/0110

District Yau Tsim Mong/ Kowloon City Area Hung Hom

Map MTR Website

Opened November 30, 1975 Type of station Ground Type of platforms Island (1-6)/ Side (7) No. of platforms 6 No. of exits 4

Hung Hom Station (紅磡站), formerly known as Kowloon Station (九龍站) is a station on the East Rail Line in Hong Kong. It is located in Hung Hom, Kowloon.

This station was opened in 1974 because the old Kowloon station at Tsim Sha Tsui was too small, had no room for expansion and was therefore demolished in the same year (although the clock tower still stands). This new Kowloon station, later renamed Hung Hom station, served as the terminus for East Rail until 24 October 2004, when KCR East Rail was extended to East Tsim Sha Tsui Station at East Tsim Sha Tsui. The expanded part of the concourse in Hung Hom station was opened in 2001, making it the largest KCR station, before the opening of East Tsim Sha Tsui station.

It now serves as an intermediate station on East Rail Line, as well as the terminus of intercity services with destinations to major cities including Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, as well as Zhaoqing, Foshan, Dongguan in Guangdong.

Hung Hom Station is one of the three Hong Kong ports-of-entry on East Rail Line, along with Lo Wu Station and Lok Ma Chau Station.

Before the relocation of Kowloon terminus from Tsim Sha Tsui to Hung Hom in 1974, a station named Hung Hom was located at Chatham Road South, next to the then coastline of Hung Hom Bay and near Gun Club Hill Barracks.

Hung Hom and its surrounding roads and areas still carry signage referring to the Hung Hom transport interchange as "Railway Terminus". Although East Tsim Sha Tsui is the current terminus, this will revert back to Hung Hom when the Kowloon Southern Link opens in 2009, where the East Rail Line will meet the West Rail Line at Hung Hom (and East Tsim Sha Tsui will become a West Rail Line intermediate station).

Since Hung Hom Station is located near the Cross Harbour Tunnel, it serves as an important transport interchange for passengers heading to and from Hong Kong Island.

Contents 1 Future development 2 Station layout 3 Neighbouring stations 4 External links

[edit] Future development

The Sha Tin to Central Link, in its various manifestations throughout the last thirty years, all considered Hung Hom as a strategic key. In the latest recommendations by the Legco, the East Rail Line will be extended to Hong Kong Island, forming a North-South corridor, whereas the West Rail Line, the Ma On Shan Line, and the yet-to-be-built East Kowloon Link, will be connected into an East-West Line. Hung Hom will serve as a cross-platform interchange station. The proposal negated the need to perform three-line interchanges, which would have required new underground platforms and escalator transfers.

[edit] Station layout

Loft	-	Shops
Concourse	Concourse	Exit C, a transport interchange
		ticketing office, Customer Service Centre, toilets, Hong Kong Immigration Department and Customs and Excise Department checkpoints (for intercity train passengers)
		shops, vending machines
		ATMs, lockers
Corridors	Northern Corridor	Exit A1-A3 & B, a footbridge, transport interchange
		Ticketing office
	Southern Corridor	Exit D1-D6, a footbridge, ticketing office
	Footbridge	to Cross Harbour Tunnel, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong Museum of History, Hong Kong Science Museum, Hung Hom, East Tsim Sha Tsui
Platforms	Platform 1	Temporarily disused. Reconstruction work in progress.
	Island platform, Platform 2 train's doors will open on the left.
	Platform 2	East Rail Line towards Lo Wu/Lok Ma Chau
	Platform 3	East Rail Line towards East Tsim Sha Tsui
	Island platform, Platform 3 train's doors will open on the left
	Platform 4	Temporarily disused. Reconstruction work in progress.
	Platform 5	Through trains to Zhaoqing, Shanghai, Guangzhou or Beijing
	Island platform. The train doors will be opened. This platform is a closed area.
	Platform 6	Through Train to Zhaoqing, Shanghai, Guangzhou or Beijing
	Platform 7	Freight Platform
	Side platform. Not for public use.

Platforms 1 and 2, and platforms 3 and 4 share the same island platform.

Platforms 5 and 6 share the same island platform.

[edit] Neighbouring stations

Preceding station		MTR		Following station
East Tsim Sha Tsui Terminus		East Rail Line		Mong Kok East towards Lo Wu or Lok Ma Chau
Exhibition planned, to open 2019 towards Admiralty
Terminus		Guangdong Through Train Guangshen railway		Dongguan (Changping) towards Zhaoqing
Terminus		Beijing-Kowloon Through Train Jingguang railway		Beijing West Terminus
Terminus		Shanghai-Kowloon Through Train Jingguang railway		Shanghai Terminus

[edit] External links

• KCRC intercity passenger services

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