Quarry Bay station

Template:Short description Template:Use dmy dates Template:EngvarB Template:Infobox station Quarry Bay (Template:Zh; Cantonese Yale: Jāk'yùhchūng) is a station on the Template:Lnl and Template:Lnl of the MTR in Quarry Bay on Hong Kong Island. The station livery is teal green.

Location

As with all stations on the Island line, Quarry Bay is located on the northern shore of Hong Kong Island. Platforms 1 and 2 are built beneath King's Road to Pak Fuk Road. Platforms 3 and 4 are built beneath King's Road to the south of Model Housing Estate.

History

The construction contract was awarded to Paul Y. Construction (now Paul Y. Engineering) and work started in 1982.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>

In the course of constructing Quarry Bay station, with the initial two platforms, Template:Convert of rock was excavated and Template:Convert of concrete was poured.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> The station opened as part of the first phase of the Island line on 31 May 1985. The station was expanded in 1989 with the addition of platforms 3 and 4, which served as the terminus of Template:Lnl upon the opening of the Eastern Harbour Crossing.

The station was badly congested in the mid-1990s. With a capacity of 30,000 people per hour, it was "close to saturation". Contingency plans were developed to evacuate trains ahead of Quarry Bay to avoid overcrowding, while construction options were planned to alleviate the problem permanently.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> On 27 September 2001, the Quarry Bay Congestion Relief Works was completed, extending the Kwun Tong line to North Point station and providing an easier and more spacious interchange there for Central bound passengers. On 4 August 2002, the Kwun Tong line platforms began serving the newly opened Template:Lnl instead.

Station layout

The station is noted for having the deepest platforms in the MTR network by metres above sea level to allow the Tseung Kwan O line tunnel to traverse Victoria Harbour. They are also among the deepest by metres below ground level (Template:Citation needed span, although Template:STN and Template:STN stations are deeper<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>) The station's concourses, however, are at ground level and open directly onto the street. As a result, four sets of escalators and many long passageways are necessary to connect the concourses to the deepest platforms. The walking time between concourse and Tseung Kwan O line platforms takes five minutes, therefore passengers are not allowed to enter the paid area of the station from seven minutes before the last train departs, which is different from the five minutes applied at other stations.

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

This inconvenience and increasing passenger numbers were what prompted the MTRC to undergo the Quarry Bay Congestion Relief Works, which extended the Kwun Tong line one station to the west to North Point station, where cross-platform interchanges are provided. The platform numbers of platforms 3 and 4 were switched when the Kwun Tong line was extended to North Point on 27 September 2001.

G	King's Road Concourse	Exits, Footbridge to Finnie Street
L1	Model Lane Concourse	Exits, Customer Service, MTRShops
L2 Platform	Platform 1	Template:0 Template:Rcb towards Template:STN (Template:STN) →
	Island platform, doors will open on the right
	Platform 2	← Template:Rcb Island line towards Template:STN (Template:STN)
L3 Platform	Platform 3	Template:0 Template:Rcb towards Template:STN or Template:STN(Template:STN) →Template:0
	Island platform, doors will open on the right
	Platform 4	← Template:Rcb Tseung Kwan O line towards North Point (Terminus)

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Entrances and exits

• A:  King's Road, Taikoo Place Wheelchair user access
• B:  Finnie Street
• C:  Model Lane, Harbour Plaza North Point<ref>Template:MTRsource</ref>Wheelchair user access

Entrances/exits A and B share the same concourse while entrance/exit C has a separate concourse.

Shops

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

Gallery

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