Olympic Station

Olympic
奧運
MTR
MTR rapid transit station

Station exterior
Chinese name
Traditional Chinese 奧運
Simplified Chinese 奧运
General information
Location Lin Cheung Road × Cherry Street, Tai Kok Tsui
Yau Tsim Mong District, Hong Kong
Coordinates 22°19′04″N 114°09′37″E / 22.3178°N 114.1602°E / 22.3178; 114.1602Coordinates: 22°19′04″N 114°09′37″E / 22.3178°N 114.1602°E / 22.3178; 114.1602
Operated by MTR Corporation
Line(s)
Platforms 2 (side platforms)
Connections Bus, public light bus
Construction
Structure type At-grade
Platform levels 1
Disabled access Yes
Other information
Station code OLY
History
Opened
  • 22 June 1998 (1998-06-22)
Services
Preceding station   MTR   Following station
towards Hong Kong
Tung Chung Line
towards Tung Chung
Location
Hong Kong MTR system map
Olympic
Location within the MTR system

Olympic (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 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 Movement.

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

Station layout

Track layout
Legend
to Nam Cheong
1
2
to Kowloon

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

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.

Transport connections

Bus routes

KMB
NWFB
NWFB towards Hong Kong Island
Citybus towards Airport/AsiaWorld-Expo

References

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Olympic Station.
  1. ↑ "Olympic Station layout" (PDF). MTR Corporation. Retrieved 28 March 2015.
  2. ↑ "Olympic Station street map" (PDF). MTR Corporation. Retrieved 28 March 2015.
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