Tai Wai station
Template:Short description Template:Use Hong Kong English Template:Use dmy dates Template:Infobox station Tai Wai station is an interchange station on the Template:Lnl and the Template:Lnl of the Mass Transit Railway (MTR) system in Hong Kong. The station is located in Tai Wai, Sha Tin District.
HistoryEdit
The first iteration of Tai Wai station along the Kowloon–Canton railway (KCR), which would later be renamed the East Rail line, arose out of a natural disaster, when a temporary station was first constructed at its present-day location in the immediate aftermath of tropical storm Ellen, whose associated torrential rain severely damaged the original masonry arch Bridge No. 11 across Shing Mun River on 25 August 1976.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> With diesel train services cut between Mong Kok and Sha Tin Stations, it was decided on 28 August 1976 to construct a temporary relief platform at Tai Wai, which was completed in 48 hours and put into operation on 1 September 1976, reconnecting train services to and from Hung Hom Station to the south and supported by connecting shuttle bus services between the temporary station and Sha Tin Station for onward travel to/from Lo Wu.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> The temporary platform was dismantled following this resumption.
Meanwhile, Bridge No. 11 was demolished and reconstructed to more modern construction standards, enabling a full resumption of end-to-end train services between Hung Hom and Lo Wu on 10 October 1976.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Eventually, plans were made to construct a permanent station at Tai Wai to serve its growing new town population. As a short-term move, construction of a temporary wood-supported station next to Tai Wai Industrial Estate began in November 1982 and it was opened on 15 August 1983 as part of the KCR's greater electrification and double-tracking modernisation programme. The temporary station was located on Shing Chuen Road (成全路), north of the current station on the opposite side of the nullah.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
The permanent station was constructed at its present location and opened on 23 April 1986 to replace the temporary station.Template:Citation needed
Further construction began in the new millennium to significantly expand Tai Wai station to serve as the western terminus of the Ma On Shan Rail, a new KCR line built to serve eastern Shatin and Ma On Shan New Town. The line opened on 21 December 2004. The expansion provided for cross-platform transfer from the Ma On Shan Line (westbound) to the East Rail (southbound).<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Automatic platform gates were retrofitted on the Ma On Shan line platforms in 2015–2016.
On 14 February 2020, the Template:Lnl was extended west to a new terminus in Template:STN, as part of the first phase of the Shatin to Central Link project. The Ma On Shan Line was renamed Tuen Ma Line Phase 1 at the time.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
On 27 June 2021, the Shatin to Central Link project was completed with the opening of a new section of rail line through East Kowloon, connecting the Tuen Ma line Phase 1 with the existing West Rail line. The newly unified line was thus renamed to "Tuen Ma line".<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
On 26 October 2023, following the opening of a new shopping mall the Wai, exit H was opened, directly connecting platform 3 with the mall.<ref name="ExitH" />
Station layoutEdit
All platforms on the station are side platforms. Platforms 1 and 2 serve the Template:Lnl and platforms 3 and 4 serve the Template:Lnl. Platforms 3 and 4 are positioned slightly higher than Platforms 1 and 2.<ref name=":0" />
Platforms 2 and 3 serve southbound trains on the East Rail and Tuen Ma lines respectively and are connected by four large walkways. This makes it possible for southbound passengers to walk directly between the two platforms, without the need to use stairs, escalators, or lifts.<ref name=":0" />
U2 Upper Concourse |
Exit H<ref name="ExitH" /> | The Wai |
P/U1 Platforms |
Exits E and G | Exits, Customer services |
Side platform, doors will open on the left | ||
Platform Template:MTR platform | Template:0 Template:Rcb towards Template:STN or Template:STN (Template:STN) → | |
Platform Template:MTR platform | ← Template:Rcb East Rail line towards Template:STN (Template:STN) | |
Side platform, doors will open on the left | ||
Exit F | Exits, Customer services, passageways | |
Side platform, doors will open on the right | ||
Platform Template:MTR platform | ← Template:Rcb towards Template:STN (Template:STN) | |
Platform Template:MTR platform | Template:0 Template:Rcb Tuen Ma line towards Template:STN (Template:STN) → | |
Side platform, doors will open on the right | ||
C Concourse (Ground) |
Concourse | Exits, transport interchange |
Customer services, toilets | ||
Shops, vending machines, ATMs |
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Entrances/exitsEdit
- A: Tsuen Nam Road Wheelchair user access<ref name=map/>
- B: Public Transport Interchange, The Wai Wheelchair user access<ref name=map/>
- C: Mei Tin Road Wheelchair user access<ref name=map/>
- D: Grandway Garden Wheelchair user access<ref name=map/>
- E: Holford Garden<ref name=map/>
- F: Mei Tin Road<ref name=map/>
- G: Chik Wan Street<ref name=map>Template:MTRsource</ref>
- H: The Wai Wheelchair user access<ref name="ExitH">Template:Cite press release</ref>
- Tai Wai Station East Rail Line platforms 2024 05 part5.jpg
East Rail Line Platform 1 (May 2024)
- Tai Wai Station East Rail Line platforms 2024 05 part6.jpg
East Rail Line Platform 2 (May 2024)
- Tai Wai Station Tuen Ma Line platforms 2022 04 part3.jpg
Tuen Ma Line Platform 3 (April 2022)
- Tai Wai Station Tuen Ma Line platforms 2022 04 part4.jpg
Tuen Ma Line Platform 4 (April 2022)
- Tai Wai Station transfer channel 2024 06 part1.jpg
Transfer tunnel between Platforms 2 and 3 (May 2024)
- Tai Wai Station East Rail Line platforms 2024 05 part7.jpg
East Rail Line platform glass railings (May 2024)
- Tai Wai Station East Rail Line platforms 2022 04 part4.jpg
East Rail line platforms 1 (left) and 2 (right) (April 2022)
- Tai Wai Station concourse 2021 07 part2.jpg
Station concourse (July 2021)
- Tai Wai Station 2020 09 part12.jpg
Transfer passageway between Southbound Template:Lnl Platform 2 (left) and Template:STN bound Template:Lnl Platform 3 (right)
- Tai Wai Station Exit A 2023 03 part1.jpg
Exit A (Mar 2023)
- Tai Wai Station 2019 04 part7.jpg
Fare gates near Exit C (April 2019)
- Tai Wai Station installing platform gate in December 2014.jpg
Installation of platform gates on Platform 4 of the Template:Lnl (now Tuen Ma line) (December 2014)
- Extension work of taiwai station.jpg
Construction of the KCR East Rail Tai Wai station (December 2003)
See alsoEdit
ReferencesEdit
External linksEdit
Template:Sha Tin District Template:East Rail Line navbox Template:Ma On Shan Line navbox Template:Sha Tin to Central Link navbox