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==History==
==History==
The construction contract for the station was awarded to the [[Laing O'Rourke|Laing]]-[[Hip Hing Construction|Hip Ying]] joint venture in November 1994.
The construction contract for the station was awarded to the [[Laing O'Rourke|Laing]]-[[Hip Hing Construction|Hip Hing]] joint venture in November 1994.


On 22 June 1998, Olympic station opened in sync with Tung Chung line.
On 22 June 1998, Olympic station opened in sync with Tung Chung line.


==Station layout==
==Station layout==
Both [[side platform]]s are parallel to each other and are at ground level. They do not share the same island platform due to the Airport Express trains running through the station, between the two platforms, without stopping. The {{lnl|MTR|tml}} also does not serve this station, despite running under the east side of the station near Lin Cheung Road.
Both [[side platform]]s are parallel to each other and are at ground level. They do not share the same island platform due to the Airport Express trains running through the station, between the two platforms, without stopping. The {{lnl|MTR|tml}} also does not serve this station, despite running under the east side of the station near Lin Cheung Road. Instead, a transfer between the two lines is offered at [[Nam Cheong station]], the next station north.


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[[File:201611 Concourse of Olympic Station.jpg|thumb|Concourse (paid area)]]
[[File:201611 Concourse of Olympic Station.jpg|thumb|Concourse (paid area)]]
[[File:Olympic Station 2013 part2.jpg|thumb|Platform 2]]
[[File:Olympic Station 2013 part2.jpg|thumb|Platform 2]]
[[File:Olympic Station 2017 12 part1.jpg|thumb|Platform 1]]
[[File:Olympic Station 2017 12 part2.jpg|thumb|Platform 2]]
[[File:Olympic Station 2017 12 part2.jpg|thumb|Platform 2]]
[[File:Olympic Station Exit C Lobby 2018.jpg|thumb|Exit C]]
[[File:Olympic Station 2020 06 part1.jpg|thumb|Platform 2]]
[[File:Olympic Station 2020 06 part2.jpg|thumb|Platform 1]]
[[File:Olympic Station 2020 06 part5.jpg|thumb|Platforms in Sport Cycling]]
[[File:Olympic Station 2020 06 part13.jpg|thumb|MTR Olympic Station Platform Arts in the Sport [[Rowing (sport)|Rowing]]]]
[[File:Olympic Station 2020 06 part21.jpg|thumb|Olympic Exit C1]]
[[File:Olympic Station platforms 2021 08 part1.jpg|thumb|Platform 1]]
[[File:Olympic Station platforms 2021 08 part2.jpg|thumb|Platform 2]]
[[File:Olympic Station platforms 2021 08 part2.jpg|thumb|Platform 2]]
[[File:Olympic Station concourse 2021 08 part1.jpg|thumb|Concourse (paid area)]]


All exits are reached by pedestrian footbridges extending in different directions from the concourse, which is built in a rectangular box between [[West Kowloon Highway]] and [[Lin Cheung Road]].
All exits are reached by pedestrian footbridges extending in different directions from the concourse, which is built in a rectangular box between [[West Kowloon Highway]] and [[Lin Cheung Road]].


*'''A1''': Island Harbourview Bus Terminus
*'''A1''': Island Harbourview Bus Terminus
[[File:Olympic Station 2020 06 part28.jpg|thumb|Olympic Station Exit A1]]
*'''A2''': [[Island Harbourview]], [[Olympian City]] 1 {{access icon|15px|Wheelchair user access}}
*'''A2''': [[Island Harbourview]], [[Olympian City]] 1 {{access icon|15px|Wheelchair user access}}
[[File:Olympic Station 2020 06 part17.jpg|thumb|Olympic Station Exit A2]]
*'''B''': [[HSBC Centre, Hong Kong|HSBC Centre]] Towers 2 and 3
*'''B''': [[HSBC Centre, Hong Kong|HSBC Centre]] Towers 2 and 3
[[File:Olympic Station 2020 06 part18.jpg|thumb|Olympic Station Exit B]]
[[File:Olympic Station Exit B (2) 12-06-2020.jpg|thumb|Olympic Exit B]]
*'''C1''': Sham Mong Road {{access icon|15px|Wheelchair user access}}
*'''C1''': Sham Mong Road {{access icon|15px|Wheelchair user access}}
*'''C2''': [[Cherry Street, Hong Kong|Cherry Street]]
*'''C2''': [[Cherry Street, Hong Kong|Cherry Street]]
*'''C3''': HSBC Centre Towers 2 and 3
*'''C3''': HSBC Centre Towers 2 and 3
[[File:Olympic Station 2020 06 part19.jpg|thumb|Olympic Exit C3]]
*'''C4''': HSBC Centre Tower 1
*'''C4''': HSBC Centre Tower 1
[[File:Olympic Station 2020 06 part20.jpg|thumb|Olympic Exit C4]]
*'''C5''': [[Florient Rise]]
*'''C5''': [[Florient Rise]]
[[File:Olympic Station 2020 06 part23.jpg|thumb|Olympic Exit C5]]
*'''D1''': Cherry Street
*'''D1''': Cherry Street
[[File:Olympic Station 2020 06 part26.jpg|thumb|Olympic Exit D1]]
*'''D2''': Lin Cheung Road
*'''D2''': Lin Cheung Road
[[File:Olympic Station 2020 06 part25.jpg|thumb|Olympic Exit D2]]
*'''D3''': Olympian City 2 and 3 {{access icon|15px|Wheelchair user access}}
*'''D3''': Olympian City 2 and 3 {{access icon|15px|Wheelchair user access}}
[[File:Olympic Station 2020 06 part24.jpg|thumb|Olympic Exit D3]]
*'''E''': [[Bank of China Centre]], Olympian City 1, [[The Long Beach]], Hampton Place {{access icon|15px|Wheelchair user access}}<ref>{{MTRsource|map|oly|Olympic|28 March 2015}}</ref>
*'''E''': [[Bank of China Centre]], Olympian City 1, [[The Long Beach]], Hampton Place {{access icon|15px|Wheelchair user access}}<ref>{{MTRsource|map|oly|Olympic|28 March 2015}}</ref>
[[File:Olympic Station 2020 06 part16.jpg|thumb|Olympic Station Exit E (June 2020)]]


==References==
==References==

Latest revision as of 03:16, 28 September 2024

For other uses, see Olympic.

Olympic

奧運
MTR MTR rapid transit station
Station exterior
Chinese name
Traditional Chinese奧運
Simplified Chinese奥运
Cantonese YaleOuwahn
Literal meaningOlympics
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu PinyinÀoyùn
Yue: Cantonese
Yale RomanizationOuwahn
JyutpingOu3wan6
General information
LocationLin Cheung Road × Cherry Street, Tai Kok Tsui
Yau Tsim Mong District, Hong Kong
Coordinates22°19′04″N 114°09′37″E / 22.3178°N 114.1602°E / 22.3178; 114.1602
Owned byMTR Corporation
Operated byMTR Corporation
Line(s)Tung Chung line
Platforms2 side platforms
Tracks4
Connections
Construction
Structure typeAt-grade
Platform levels1
AccessibleYes
ArchitectCYS Associates
Other information
Station codeOLY
History
Opened22 June 1998; 26 years ago (1998-06-22)
Previous namesTai Kok Tsui
Services
Preceding station MTR MTR Following station
Kowloon
towards Hong Kong
 Tung Chung line Nam Cheong
towards Tung Chung
     Airport Express does not stop here
Route map
Legend
to Nam Cheong
1
2
to Kowloon
Location
Hong Kong MTR system map
Hong Kong MTR system map
Olympic
Location within the MTR system
Hong Kong MTR system map
Hong Kong MTR system map
Olympic
Olympic (Hong Kong urban core)

Olympic is a station on the Tung Chung line of Hong Kong's MTR. The livery is dodger blue.

The station was originally named Tai Kok Tsui in proposals outlined by the government in the Airport Core Programme during the 1990s. In 1996, however, when Lee Lai-shan won the first ever Olympic gold medal of Hong Kong in windsurfing at the Atlanta 1996 Summer Olympics and two Hong Kong sportsmen, Cheung Yiu-cheung and Chiu Chung-lun, also won Gold medals in the Paralympic Games of the same year, the (then-under construction) station was renamed Olympic on 16 December 1996, paying tribute to those achievements of Hong Kong athletes. The station is decorated with the pictures of the 1996 Summer Olympics and is named after the Olympic Games.

Olympic is only one of two stations on the Tung Chung line not shared with another line, the other being Tung Chung.[1]

History

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The construction contract for the station was awarded to the Laing-Hip Hing joint venture in November 1994.

On 22 June 1998, Olympic station opened in sync with Tung Chung line.

Station layout

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Both side platforms are parallel to each other and are at ground level. They do not share the same island platform due to the Airport Express trains running through the station, between the two platforms, without stopping. The Tuen Ma line also does not serve this station, despite running under the east side of the station near Lin Cheung Road. Instead, a transfer between the two lines is offered at Nam Cheong station, the next station north.

U2 Concourse Exits, customer service, MTRshops, Hang Seng Bank
Vending machines, automatic teller machines
G Ground level Exit A1, Island Harbourview Bus Terminus
Street level Lin Cheung Road, West Kowloon Highway
Platform 1 →      Tung Chung line towards Tung Chung (Nam Cheong) →
Side platform, doors will open on the right
Airport Express →      Airport Express does not stop here →
Airport Express ←      Airport Express does not stop here
Side platform, doors will open on the right
Platform 2 ←      Tung Chung line towards Hong Kong (Kowloon)
Street level Lin Cheung Road, Sham Mong Road
Exits Exit B, C1, C2, Olympic Station Bus Terminus

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Entrances and exits

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Concourse (paid area)
Platform 2
Platform 1
Platform 2
Exit C
Platform 2
Platform 1
Platforms in Sport Cycling
MTR Olympic Station Platform Arts in the Sport Rowing
Olympic Exit C1
Platform 1
Platform 2
Concourse (paid area)

All exits are reached by pedestrian footbridges extending in different directions from the concourse, which is built in a rectangular box between West Kowloon Highway and Lin Cheung Road.

  • A1: Island Harbourview Bus Terminus
Olympic Station Exit A1
Olympic Station Exit A2
Olympic Station Exit B
Olympic Exit B
  • C1: Sham Mong Road Wheelchair user access
  • C2: Cherry Street
  • C3: HSBC Centre Towers 2 and 3
Olympic Exit C3
  • C4: HSBC Centre Tower 1
Olympic Exit C4
Olympic Exit C5
  • D1: Cherry Street
Olympic Exit D1
  • D2: Lin Cheung Road
Olympic Exit D2
  • D3: Olympian City 2 and 3 Wheelchair user access
Olympic Exit D3
Olympic Station Exit E (June 2020)

References

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Wikimedia Commons has media related to Olympic Station.
  1. ^ "Olympic Station layout" (PDF). MTR Corporation. Retrieved 27 February 2015.https://www.mtr.com.hk/archive/en/services/routemap.pdf
  2. ^ "Olympic Station layout" (PDF). MTR Corporation. Retrieved 28 March 2015.
  3. ^ "Olympic Station street map" (PDF). MTR Corporation. Retrieved 28 March 2015.
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