Olympic station

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

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
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 (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
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)

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

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. The Tuen Ma line also does not serve this station, despite serving both the Nam Cheong and Austin stations (which are close to Kowloon station).

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

[2]

Entrances and exits
Concourse (paid area)
Platform 2
Platform 2
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.

References
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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