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Revision as of 09:19, 16 February 2021

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
Operated byMTR Corporation
Line(s)
Platforms2 (2 side platforms)
Tracks4
ConnectionsBus, public light bus
Construction
Structure typeAt-grade
Platform levels1
AccessibleYes
Other information
Station codeOLY
History
Opened
  • 22 June 1998; 26 years ago (1998-06-22)
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
1
2
Location
Hong Kong MTR system map
Hong Kong MTR system map
Olympic
Location within the MTR system

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.

History

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

Station layout

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.

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

[1]

Entrances and exits

Concourse (paid area)
Platform 2

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
  • A2: Island Harbourview, Olympian City 1 Wheelchair user access
  • B: HSBC Centre Towers 2 and 3
  • C1: Sham Mong Road Wheelchair user access
  • C2: Cherry Street
  • C3: HSBC Centre Towers 2 and 3
  • C4: HSBC Centre Tower 1
  • C5: Florient Rise
  • D1: Cherry Street
  • D2: Lin Cheung Road
  • D3: Olympian City 2 and 3 Wheelchair user access
  • E: Bank of China Centre, Olympian City 1,The long beach, Hampton Place Wheelchair user access[2]

Transport connections

Bus routes

Kowloon Motor Bus
  • 2E - Kowloon City Ferry ↔ Pak Tin
  • 10 - Choi Wan ↺ Tai Kok Tsui
  • 12 - Hoi Lai Estate ↔ Tsim Sha Tsui East (Mody Road)
  • 13D - Po Tat ↔ Island Harbourview
  • 16 - Lam Tin (Kwong Tin Estate) ↔ Mong Kok (Park Avenue)
  • 16X - Lam Tin (Kwong Tin Estate) → Mong Kok (Park Avenue) (Morning Peak Service)
  • 18 - Nam Cheong station ↺ Oi Man
  • 31B - Shek Lei ↔ Olympic station
  • 32 - Shek Wai Kok ↔ Olympic station
  • 33A - Mong Kok (Park Avenue) ↔ Tsuen Wan (Nina Tower)
  • 37 - Kwai Shing (Central) ↔ Olympic station
  • 43C - Cheung Hong ↔ Island Harbourview (Rush Time Service)
  • 52X - Tuen Mun Central ↔ Mong Kok (Park Avenue)
  • 66X - Tai Hing ↔ Olympic station
  • 68X - Hung Shui Kiu (Hung Fuk Estate) ↔ Mong Kok (Park Avenue)
  • 72X - Tai Po Central ↔ Mong Kok (Park Avenue)
  • 87B - Sun Tin Wai ↔ Island Harbourview
  • 265B - Tin Heng Estate ↔ Mong Kok (Park Avenue)
  • 270B - Sheung Shui ↔ Olympic station
  • 287X - Pok Hong Estate ↺ Jordan
  • 887 - Sha Tin Racecourse → Mong Kok (Park Avenue) (Racing days only)
New World First Bus
  • 701 - Hoi Lai Estate /Nam Cheong station ↺ Mong Kok
  • 701S - Hoi Lai Estate /Nam Cheong station ↺ Mong Kok (Night Service)
  • 971 - Hoi Lai Estate ↔ Shek Pai Wan
NWFB/KMB towards Hong Kong Island
  • 904 - Lai Chi Kok ↔ Kennedy Town (Belcher Bay)
  • 905 - Lai Chi Kok ↔ Wan Chai Ferry
  • 914 - Hoi Lai Estate ↔ Causeway Bay (Tin Hau)
  • 914P - Hoi Lai Estate → Causeway Bay (Tin Hau)(Morning Peak Service)
  • 914X - Hoi Lai Estate → Causeway Bay (Tin Hau)(Morning Peak Service)
Citybus towards Airport/AsiaWorld-Expo
  • A21 - Airport (Ground Transportation Centre) ↔ Hung Hom station
  • E21 - AsiaWorld–Expo ↔ Island Harbourview
  • N23 - Tung Chung ↔ Sze Wan Shan (Via: Airport)

References

  1. ^ "Olympic Station layout" (PDF). MTR Corporation. Retrieved 28 March 2015.
  2. ^ "Olympic Station street map" (PDF). MTR Corporation. Retrieved 28 March 2015.