Olympic Station

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Coordinates: 22°19′04.53″N, 114°09′36.26″E

Olympic 奧運

Photograph of Olympic station

Line Tung Chung Code OLY Service hours 0607/0105 Connections Bus, Minibus

District Yau Tsim Mong Area Tai Kok Tsui

Map MTR Website

Opened June 22, 1998 Type of station Ground Level Type of platforms Side No. of platforms 2 No. of exits 11 No. of lifts 3 No. of shops 10

Olympic Station
Traditional Chinese:	奧運
Simplified Chinese:	奥运
Transliterations Mandarin - Hanyu Pinyin: Àoyùn Yue (Cantonese) - Jyutping: ou3 wan6 - Yale Romanization: ou3 wan6

Olympic (traditional Chinese: 奧運) is a station on the Tung Chung Line of Hong Kong's MTR. The livery is dodger blue.

The station was originally known as Tai Kok Tsui in proposals outlined by the government in the Airport Core Programme during the 1990s.^[1] Lee Lai Shan won the first ever Olympic gold medal of Hong Kong in the event windsurfing of Atlanta Olympic Games 1996. Two Hong Kong sportsmen Cheung Yiu Cheung and Chiu Chung Lun also won Gold medals in Paralympic Games of the same year. In 16th December, 1996, the station was renamed Olympic paying tribute to the achievements of Hong Kong athletes. The station is decorated with the pictures of 1996 Summer Olympics and is named after the Olympic Movement.

Contents 1 Station layout 2 Entrances/Exits 3 Transport Connections 3.1 Bus Routes 4 Neighbouring stations 5 Reference

[edit] Station layout

U2 Concourse	Concourse	Exits, customer service, MTRshops, Hang Seng Bank
		Vending machines, automatic teller machines
G Platforms (Ground)	Platform 1	Tung Chung Line towards Tung Chung and Disneyland Resort Line
	Side platform, doors will open on the right
	-	Airport Express tracks
	Side platform, doors will open on the right
	Platform 2	Tung Chung Line towards Hong Kong
	-	Exits, transport interchange

Although both platforms are parallel to each other on ground level, they do not share the same island platform due to the Airport Express Trains running through the middle of the station. So, passengers again will have to choose the specific escalator for their platform in the concourse.

[edit] Entrances/Exits

All exits are reached by pedestrian footbridges reaching out to all directions from the concourse, built in a rectangular box in the middle of the West Kowloon Highway.

• A1: Olympian City 1
• A2: Olympian City 1
• B: HSBC Centre Towers 2 and 3
• C1/C3/C4: HSBC Centre Tower 1
• C2: Cherry Street
• D1: Olympian City 2
• D2/D3: Olympian City 2
• E: Bank of China Centre

[edit] Transport Connections

[edit] Bus Routes

To Pok Hong Estate:

• 87A

To San Tin Wai Estate:

• 87B

[edit] Neighbouring stations

Preceding station		MTR		Following station
Kowloon towards Hong Kong		Tung Chung Line		Nam Cheong towards Tung Chung

[edit] Reference

1. ^ http://www.info.gov.hk/napco/index-e.html

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