Mei Foo station

Mei Foo (Template:Zh) is an MTR station on the Tsuen Wan line and the Template:Lnl. It is located under Mei Foo Sun Chuen, Lai Chi Kok, New Kowloon. It is the only interchange station between both lines, situated between Template:STN and Template:STN stations on the Tsuen Wan line and Template:STN and Template:STN stations on the Tuen Ma line. Opened on 17 May 1982, Mei Foo station's lineage is blue.

The Tsuen Wan line part of the station is a simple through station with a central island platform, located under Mount Sterling Mall, a pedestrian-only street between the rows of residential buildings in the Mei Foo Sun Chuen housing estate. The station is designed to facilitate transport needs of the residents of Mei Foo Sun Chuen housing estate, consisting of 132 buildings and several schools, and the point of transfer between the Kowloon urban area and the new town of Tsuen Wan. If there is heavy traffic on the main road into urban Kowloon, the Kwai Chung Road, many commuters get off their buses and use this station as their link to Kowloon and Central on Hong Kong Island.

History

Tsuen Wan line

The station's original name was Lai Chi Kok during the planning stage, but upon its opening on 17 May 1982 the station was called "Lai Wan"<ref>Yu, Pui-kwan, Robin, "A study on quasi-public space in large scale private residential development, case in Hong Kong" Template:Webarchive, p. 28, University of Hong Kong, 2007</ref> (荔灣, short for Lai Chi Kok Bay), and was renamed to its current name on 31 May 1985 when Template:Lnl opened. Kumagai Gumi was the contractor for the station's construction.

West Rail line and the latter Tuen Ma line

The Template:Lnl (then known as KCR West Rail) part of the station was opened on 20 December 2003 along with the rail line. The station is located in the middle of Lai Chi Kok Park, slightly to the west of the Tsuen Wan line's part of the station. The contract for the station on the East Rail Line (now Tuen Ma Line) was awarded to Kier-Zen Pacific joint venture.<ref>Template:Cite magazine</ref> The Template:Lnl and West Rail line stations merged into one station on 2 December 2007 in the MTR–KCR merger.

On 27 June 2021, the West Rail line officially merged with the Template:Lnl (which was already extended into the Tuen Ma line Phase 1 at the time) in East Kowloon to form the new Template:Lnl, as part of the Shatin to Central link project. Mei Foo was included in the project and is now an intermediate station on the Tuen Ma line.

Station layout

Both Tsuen Wan line platforms share the same island platform. Unlike at Nam Cheong station (where there is one cross-platform interchange between the Template:Lnl and the Tuen Ma line), the Template:Lnl and Template:Lnl platforms are relatively far apart. The concourses for these platforms are a five to ten-minute walk along a connecting passageway.

Although the Tuen Ma line platform is constructed at ground level, like Nam Cheong station, the station and surrounding track is sealed to avoid disturbance to the colocated park.

U1	roof garden	Exit G, Lai Chi Kok Park, footbridge to Ching Lai Court, Lai King Hill Road
C / G	Tuen Ma line concourse	Exit F, customer services, washrooms, shops, vending machines, automatic teller machines
P / L1	side platform
	Platform Template:MTR platform	Template:0 Template:Rcb towards Template:STN (Template:STN) Template:Arrow2
	Platform Template:MTR platform	Template:Arrow2 Template:Rcb Tuen Ma line towards Template:STN (Template:STN)
	side platform
G	passageway	Exit D, Lai Chi Kok Park
	Tsuen Wan line concourse	Exits A, B, C, E
L1	subway	passageway connecting Tuen Ma line and Tsuen Wan line concourses
L2	Tsuen Wan line concourse	customer service centre, shops, vending machine, automatic teller machines, Octopus promotion machine
L3	Platform Template:MTR platform	Template:0 Template:Rcb towards Template:STN (Template:STN) Template:Arrow2
	island platform
	Platform Template:MTR platform	Template:Arrow2 Template:Rcb Tsuen Wan line towards Template:STN (Template:STN)

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Entrances/exits

• A: Broadway
• B: Mount Sterling Mall
• C1: Lai Wan Road
• C2: Humbert Street Template:Access icon
• D: Lai Chi Kok Park (Lai Wan Road)
• E: Lai Wan Road Template:Access icon
• F: Lai Chi Kok Park Template:Access icon
• G: Lai King Hill Road<ref>Template:MTRsource</ref>

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