Olympic station
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Traditional Chinese | 奧運 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Simplified Chinese | 奥运 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Cantonese Yale | Ouwahn | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Literal meaning | Olympics | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Location | Lin Cheung Road × Cherry Street, Tai Kok Tsui Yau Tsim Mong District, Hong Kong | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Structure type | At-grade | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Platform levels | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Accessible | Yes | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Architect | CYS Associates | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Station code | OLY | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Opened | 22 June 1998; 26 years ago (1998-06-22) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Previous names | Tai Kok Tsui | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Olympic 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 Games.
Olympic is only one of two stations on the Tung Chung line not shared with another line, the other being Tung Chung.[1]
History
The construction contract for the station was awarded to the Laing-Hip Hing joint venture in November 1994.
On 22 June 1998, Olympic station opened in sync with Tung Chung line.
Station layout
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. The Tuen Ma line also does not serve this station, despite running under the east side of the station near Lin Cheung Road.
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 |
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Entrances and exits
![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e5/201611_Concourse_of_Olympic_Station.jpg/220px-201611_Concourse_of_Olympic_Station.jpg)
![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e2/Olympic_Station_2013_part2.jpg/220px-Olympic_Station_2013_part2.jpg)
![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/aa/Olympic_Station_2017_12_part1.jpg/220px-Olympic_Station_2017_12_part1.jpg)
![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/64/Olympic_Station_2017_12_part2.jpg/220px-Olympic_Station_2017_12_part2.jpg)
![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/79/Olympic_Station_Exit_C_Lobby_2018.jpg/220px-Olympic_Station_Exit_C_Lobby_2018.jpg)
![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c6/Olympic_Station_2020_06_part1.jpg/220px-Olympic_Station_2020_06_part1.jpg)
![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/69/Olympic_Station_2020_06_part2.jpg/220px-Olympic_Station_2020_06_part2.jpg)
![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ae/Olympic_Station_2020_06_part5.jpg/220px-Olympic_Station_2020_06_part5.jpg)
![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3c/Olympic_Station_2020_06_part13.jpg/220px-Olympic_Station_2020_06_part13.jpg)
![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bc/Olympic_Station_2020_06_part21.jpg/220px-Olympic_Station_2020_06_part21.jpg)
![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/15/Olympic_Station_platforms_2021_08_part1.jpg/220px-Olympic_Station_platforms_2021_08_part1.jpg)
![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e2/Olympic_Station_platforms_2021_08_part2.jpg/220px-Olympic_Station_platforms_2021_08_part2.jpg)
![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7f/Olympic_Station_concourse_2021_08_part1.jpg/220px-Olympic_Station_concourse_2021_08_part1.jpg)
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.
- A1: Island Harbourview Bus Terminus
![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/83/Olympic_Station_2020_06_part28.jpg/220px-Olympic_Station_2020_06_part28.jpg)
- A2: Island Harbourview, Olympian City 1
![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/56/Olympic_Station_2020_06_part17.jpg/220px-Olympic_Station_2020_06_part17.jpg)
- B: HSBC Centre Towers 2 and 3
![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b7/Olympic_Station_2020_06_part18.jpg/220px-Olympic_Station_2020_06_part18.jpg)
![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/de/Olympic_Station_Exit_B_%282%29_12-06-2020.jpg/220px-Olympic_Station_Exit_B_%282%29_12-06-2020.jpg)
- C1: Sham Mong Road
- C2: Cherry Street
- C3: HSBC Centre Towers 2 and 3
![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/54/Olympic_Station_2020_06_part19.jpg/220px-Olympic_Station_2020_06_part19.jpg)
- C4: HSBC Centre Tower 1
![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c8/Olympic_Station_2020_06_part20.jpg/220px-Olympic_Station_2020_06_part20.jpg)
- C5: Florient Rise
![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7c/Olympic_Station_2020_06_part23.jpg/220px-Olympic_Station_2020_06_part23.jpg)
- D1: Cherry Street
![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/85/Olympic_Station_2020_06_part26.jpg/220px-Olympic_Station_2020_06_part26.jpg)
- D2: Lin Cheung Road
![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ee/Olympic_Station_2020_06_part25.jpg/220px-Olympic_Station_2020_06_part25.jpg)
- D3: Olympian City 2 and 3
![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/09/Olympic_Station_2020_06_part24.jpg/220px-Olympic_Station_2020_06_part24.jpg)
- E: Bank of China Centre, Olympian City 1, The Long Beach, Hampton Place
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![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4b/Olympic_Station_2020_06_part16.jpg/220px-Olympic_Station_2020_06_part16.jpg)
References
![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/4a/Commons-logo.svg/30px-Commons-logo.svg.png)
- ^ "Olympic Station layout" (PDF). MTR Corporation. Retrieved 27 February 2015.https://www.mtr.com.hk/archive/en/services/routemap.pdf
- ^ "Olympic Station layout" (PDF). MTR Corporation. Retrieved 28 March 2015.
- ^ "Olympic Station street map" (PDF). MTR Corporation. Retrieved 28 March 2015.
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