Olympic station
{{#invoke:other uses|otheruses}} Template:Short description Template:More citations needed Template:EngvarB Template:Use dmy dates Template:Infobox station Olympic is a station on the Template:Lnl 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 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.<ref>Template:MTRsourcehttps://www.mtr.com.hk/archive/en/services/routemap.pdf</ref>
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 Template:Lnl also does not serve this station, despite running under the east side of the station near Lin Cheung Road. Instead, a transfer between the two lines is offered at Nam Cheong station, the next station north.
| 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 Template:MTR platform | Template:0 Template:Rcb towards Tung Chung (Nam Cheong) → | |
| Side platform, doors will open on the right | ||
| Template:Rail color box | Template:0 Template:Rcb does not stop here → | |
| ← Template:Rcb Airport Express does not stop here | ||
| Side platform, doors will open on the right | ||
| Platform Template:MTR platform | ← Template:Rcb 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
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
- B: HSBC Centre Towers 2 and 3
- C1: Sham Mong Road Wheelchair user access
- C2: Cherry Street
- C3: HSBC Centre Towers 2 and 3 Wheelchair user access
- C4: HSBC Centre Tower 1 Wheelchair user access
- D1: Cherry Street
- D2: Lin Cheung Road
- D3: Olympian City 2 and 3 Wheelchair user access
- E: Bank of China Centre, Olympian City 1, The Long Beach, Hampton Place Wheelchair user access<ref>Template:MTRsource</ref>
References
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