Quarry Bay Station

Quarry Bay
鰂魚涌

Hong Kong MTR rapid transit station
Platform 4 on the Tseung Kwan O Line towards North Point.
Location of Quarry Bay Station in Hong Kong
Station location and services
Lines	█ Island Line █ Tseung Kwan O Line
Code	QUB
District	Eastern
Area	Quarry Bay
Coordinates	22°17′16″N 114°12′35″E / 22.2878°N 114.2096°E / 22.2878; 114.2096Coordinates: 22°17′16″N 114°12′35″E / 22.2878°N 114.2096°E / 22.2878; 114.2096
Map	MTR website
Connections	bus
Service hours	0604 / 0114
Station design
Livery	█ DarkCyan
Structure	Underground
Platforms	4
Type of platforms	Island
Exits	3
Escalators	40
Lifts	4
Shops	7
Events
Opened	31 May 1985
Opened	6 August 1989
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Quarry Bay Station is an underground station on the MTR Island Line on Hong Kong Island and Tseung Kwan O Line between Hong Kong Island and Tseung Kwan O New Town in the New Territories, Hong Kong. The livery is teal green.

Location

As with all stations on the Island Line, Quarry Bay is located on the northern shore of Hong Kong Island. Platforms 1 and 2 are built beneath King's Road to Pak Fuk Road. Platforms 3 and 4 are built beneath King's Road to the south of Model Housing Estate.

History

Quarry Bay station opened as part of the second phase of the Island Line on 31 May 1985. The station was expanded in 1989 with the addition of Platforms 3 and 4, which served as the terminus of Kwun Tong Line until 2002. The line was then extended to North Point on 18 August of the same year; these two platforms are now a part of the Tseung Kwan O Line.

Station layout

The station is noted for having the deepest platforms in the MTR network, with a maximum depth of 37m below ground level, to allow the tunnel to traverse Victoria Harbour. The station's concourses, however, are at ground level and open directly onto the street. As a result, four sets of escalators and many long passageways are necessary to connect the concourses to the deepest platforms.

Since platforms 3 and 4 were built some time after platforms 1 and 2, no cross-platform interchanges are available in Quarry Bay station. Commuters interchanging between the two lines have to walk through a long passageway and two flights of escalators for about 5 minutes to reach the platforms of the other line.

This inconvenience and increasing passenger numbers were what prompted the MTRC to undergo the Quarry Bay Congestion Relief Works, which extended the █ Kwun Tong Line one station to the west to North Point Station, where cross-platform interchanges are provided. The platform numbers of platforms 3 and 4 were switched when the Kwun Tong Line is extended to North Point in 2001.

Entrances and exits

• A:  King's Road, Taikoo Place
• B:  Finnie Street
• C:  Model Lane, Harbour Plaza North Point

Entrances/exits A and B share the same concourse while entrance/exit C has a separate concourse. Passengers are advised to check the direction signs before leaving the platform.

Shops

• Circle K Mini-store
• Hang Seng Bank (with ATMs)
• Hang Seng Bank ATMs
• Maxim's Cakes
• 2 Bank of China (Hong Kong) ATMs
• An automatic photo machine (Max Sight Photo-Me)
• A vending machine (Swire Coca-Cola)

Gallery

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  Exit C

Neighbouring stations