Olympic (MTR)

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Coordinates: 22°19′04.53″N, 114°09′36.26″E

Olympic
奧運

Photograph of Olympic station

Line	Tung Chung
Code	OLY
Service hours	0607/0105
Connections	Bus, Minibus

District	Yau Tsim Mong
Area	Tai Kok Tsui

Map	MTR Website
Coordinates	to be added

Opened	June 1998
Type of station	Ground Level
Type of platforms	Side
No. of platforms	2
No. of entrances/exits	11
No. of escalators	to be added
No. of lifts	to be added
No. of shops	to be added

Olympic (Trad. Chinese:奧運; Jyutping: ou3 wan6; pinyin: Àoyùn) is a station on the Tung Chung Line of Hong Kong's MTR. The livery is dodger blue.

The station was originally known as Tai Kok Tsui in proposals outlined by the government in the Airport Core Programme ([1]) during the 1990s. Lee Lai Shan won the first ever Olympic gold medal of Hong Kong in the event windsurfing of Atlanta Olympic Games 1996. Two Hong Kong sportsmen Cheung Yiu Cheung (tentative translation) and Chiu Chung Lun (tentative translation) also won Gold medals in Paralympic Games of the same year. In 16th December, 1996, the station is renamed to Olympic in memorial of the achievement of Hong Kong sports participants. The station was decorated with the pictures of 1996 Summer Olympics and is named after the Olympic Movement.

1 Platforms
2 Entrances/Exits
3 Transport Connections
- 3.1 Bus Routes
4 Neighbouring stations

[edit] Platforms

Platform 1: Tung Chung Line to Tung Chung and Disneyland Resort Line
Platform 2: Tung Chung Line to Hong Kong

Although both platforms are parallel to each other on ground level, they do not share the same island platform due to the Airport Express Trains running through the middle of the station. So, passengers again will have to choose the specific escalator for their platform in the concourse.

[edit] Entrances/Exits

All exits are reached by pedestrian footbridges reaching out to all directions from the concourse, built in a rectangular box in the middle of the West Kowloon Highway.

A1: Olympian City 1
A2: Olympian City 2
B: HSBC Centre Towers 2 and 3
C1/C3/C4: HSBC Centre Tower 1
C2: Cherry Street
D1: Olympian City 2
D2/D3: Olympian City 2
E: Bank of China Centre

[edit] Transport Connections

[edit] Bus Routes

To Pok Hong:

87A

To San Tin Wai:

87B

[edit] Neighbouring stations

Previous station		MTR		Next station
Kowloon		Tung Chung Line		Nam Cheong

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Hong Kong MTR stations

Kwun Tong Line	Whampoa Garden \| Ho Man Tin \| Yau Ma Tei ■ \| Mong Kok ■ \| Prince Edward ■ \| Shek Kip Mei \| Kowloon Tong ¹ \| Lok Fu \| Wong Tai Sin \| Diamond Hill \| Choi Hung \| Kowloon Bay \| Ngau Tau Kok \| Kwun Tong \| Lam Tin \| Yau Tong ■ \| Tiu Keng Leng ■
Tsuen Wan Line	Central ■■■ \| Admiralty ■ \| Tsim Sha Tsui ¹ \| Jordan \| Yau Ma Tei ■ \| Mong Kok ■ \| Prince Edward ■ \| Sham Shui Po \| Cheung Sha Wan \| Lai Chi Kok \| Mei Foo ² \| Lai King ■ \| Kwai Fong \| Kwai Hing \| Tai Wo Hau \| Tsuen Wan
Island Line	Kennedy Town \| University \| Sai Ying Pun \| Sheung Wan \| Central ■■■ \| Admiralty ■ \| Wan Chai \| Causeway Bay \| Tin Hau \| Fortress Hill \| North Point ■ \| Quarry Bay ■ \| Tai Koo \| Sai Wan Ho \| Shau Kei Wan \| Heng Fa Chuen \| Chai Wan
Tung Chung Line	³Fortress Hill \| Exhibition \| Tamar \| Hong Kong ■■■ \| Kowloon ■ \| Olympic \| Nam Cheong ² \| Lai King ■ \| Tsing Yi ■ \| Sunny Bay ■ \| Tung Chung
Airport Express	Hong Kong ■■■ \| Kowloon ■ \| Tsing Yi ■ \| Airport \| AsiaWorld-Expo
Tseung Kwan O Line	⁴Tin Hau \| North Point ■ \| Quarry Bay ■ \| Yau Tong ■ \| Tiu Keng Leng ■ \| Tseung Kwan O \| Hang Hau \| Po Lam \| Tseung Kwan O South
Disneyland Resort Line	Sunny Bay ■ \| Disneyland Resort
1) Interchange with KCR East Rail 2) Interchange with KCR West Rail 3) Taking up Island Line stations east of Fortress Hill 4) Taking up Island Line stations west of Tin Hau Lines and stations that are proposed, under planning or under construction are shown in italics.