Quarry Bay (MTR)

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Quarry Bay
鰂魚涌

Panorama of Platform 2 on the Island Line towards Sheung Wan.

Line	Island Tseung Kwan O
Code	QUB
Service hours	0604 / 0114
Connections	bus

District	Eastern
Area	Quarry Bay

Maps	MTR Website Centamap
Coordinates	22.287841° N 114.209645° E

Opened	May 31, 1985 / August 6, 1989
Type of station	underground
Type of platforms	island
No. of platforms	4
No. of entrances/exits	3
No. of escalators	28
No. of lifts	3
No. of shops	7

Quarry Bay (Chinese: 鰂魚涌; Cantonese IPA: [tsɐk₅₅ jy₁₁ tsʰʊŋ₅₅], Yale: jāk yùh chūng, Jyutping: zak1 jyu4 cung1; Mandarin Pinyin: Zéiyúcōng) is an underground station on the MTR Island Line on Hong Kong Island and Tseung Kwan O Line between Hong Kong Island and Tseung Kwan O New Town in the New Territories, Hong Kong. The livery is green.

The station was retrofitted in 1989 with the addition of Platforms 3 and 4, which served as the terminus of Kwun Tong Line until 2002. The line was then temporarily extended to North Point until August 18 of the same year. The two platforms are now a part of Tseung Kwan O Line.

The station is noted for having the deepest platforms on the MTR network, with deepest depth of 37m from the ground, to allow the tunnel to dive across the Victoria Harbour. The station's concourses, however, are at ground level and open directly to the street. As a result, four sets of escalators and many long passageways are necessary to connect the concourses to the deepest platforms.

1 Platforms
2 Shops
3 Entrances/exits
4 Transport connections
- 4.1 Bus
5 Neighbouring stations

[edit] Platforms

Upper Level

Platform 1: Island Line towards Chai Wan
Platform 2: Island Line towards Sheung Wan

Lower Level

Platform 3: Tseung Kwan O Line towards Po Lam
Platform 4: Tseung Kwan O Line towards North Point

Platforms 1 and 2, and Platforms 3 and 4 are both island platforms.

Since platforms 3 and 4 were built some time after platforms 1 and 2, no cross-platform interchanges are available in Quarry Bay station. Commuters interchanging between the two lines have to walk through a long passageway for about 5 minutes to reach the platforms of the other line.

This inconvenience is what prompted the MTRC to undergo the Quarry Bay Congestion Relief Works, which extended the Kwun Tong Line one stop to the west to North Point Station, where cross-platform interchanges are provided. However, that extension only benefited people who resided west of North Point. Passengers living east of Quarry Bay must continue to change trains at Quarry Bay.

[edit] Shops

Circle K Mini-store
Hang Seng Bank (with ATMs)
Hang Seng Bank ATMs
Maxim's Cakes
2 Bank of China (Hong Kong) ATMs
An automatic photo machine (Max Sight Photo-Me)
A vending machine (Swire Coca-Cola)

[edit] Entrances/exits

A: King's Road, Taikoo Place
B: Finnie Street
C: Model Lane, Harbour Plaza North Point

Entrances/exits A and B share the same concourse while entrance/exit C has a separate concourse. Passengers are advised to check the direction signs before leaving the platform.

[edit] Transport connections

[edit] Bus

To Tsz Wan Shan (Central)

116 (at exit A or B)

[edit] Neighbouring stations

Previous station		MTR		Next station
North Point toward Sheung Wan		Island Line		Tai Koo toward Chai Wan
North Point Terminus		Tseung Kwan O Line		Yau Tong toward Po Lam

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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.