Tai Wo Hau Station

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Tai Wo Hau
大窩口
MTR rapid transit station
File:Tai Wo Hau Station 2013 part4.JPG
Platform level
Location Kwok Shui Road Park, Castle Peak Road — Kwai Chung, Tai Wo Hau
Tsuen Wan District, Hong Kong
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Operated by MTR Corporation
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Platforms 2 (island platform)
Connections Bus, public light bus
Construction
Structure type Underground
Platform levels 1
Disabled access Yes
Other information
Station code TWH
History
Opened <templatestyles src="Plainlist/styles.css"/>
  • 10 May 1982 (1982-05-10)
Services
Preceding station   MTR   Following station
towards Central
 Tsuen Wan Line
Terminus
Location
Hong Kong MTR system map
Hong Kong MTR system map
Tai Wo Hau
Location within the MTR system
Tai Wo Hau Station
Traditional Chinese 大窩口
Simplified Chinese 大窝口
Literal meaning Big den (and) mouth

Tai Wo Hau is an MTR station between Tsuen Wan and Kwai Hing stations on the Tsuen Wan Line. It serves the areas of Kwai Yin Court and Tai Wo Hau Estate in the Kwai Tsing District, and some resited villages (such as Kwan Mun Hau Tsuen) in the Tsuen Wan District of Hong Kong. These villages were originally in Tsuen Wan town centre, being moved for new town development.

Tai Wo Hau Station was one of the first railway stations in the New Territories; and the first underground one. All other New Territories stations on the Tsuen Wan Line are either at surface level or on viaducts. Lai King Station cuts through a hillside slope, and all other New Territories underground stations were opened some years later.

The station is relatively less busy in the system because of its distance to nearby bus stops and settlements.

History

The station was built on the site of a park.[1] The 280 metre long, 22 metre wide, 15 metre deep station box was built bottom-up within a sheetpile cofferdam.[2] The tunnel between Tai Wo Hau and Kwai Hing Stations was completed in July 1980 using the drill-and-blast method.[3] In 1984, the New Territories Development Department awarded a contract for the construction of a park above the station to replace the one which originally existed there.[4] This park is now called Kwok Shui Road Park.

Timetable

Line Destination First train Last train
Tsuen Wan Line Tsuen Wan 06:34 01:22
Central 06:01 00:31
Source: MTR[5]

Station layout

Platforms 1 and 2 share the same island platform.

Ground - Exits
L1
Concourse		 Concourse Customer Service, MTRShops
Vending machine, ATMs
L2
Platforms		 Platform 1 →      Tsuen Wan Line towards Tsuen Wan (Terminus) →
Island platform, doors will open on the right
Platform 2 ←      Tsuen Wan Line towards Central (Kwai Hing)

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Entrances/exits

Transport connections

References

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