Mei Foo Station

Mei Foo 美孚

Appearance of Mei Foo Station (near Exit G)

Line      Tsuen Wan Line      West Rail Line Code MEF Service hours 0609/0115 Connections Bus, Minibus

District Sham Shui Po Area Lai Chi Kok Map MTR Website Coordinates 22°20′17″N 114°08′15″E / 22.338099°N 114.137559°E / 22.338099; 114.137559Coordinates: 22°20′17″N 114°08′15″E / 22.338099°N 114.137559°E / 22.338099; 114.137559

Opened May 17, 1982 (Tsuen Wan Line) / December 20, 2003 (West Rail Line) Type of station Underground (West Rail Line) Ground (West Rail Line) Type of platforms Island (Tsuen Wan Line)/ Side (West Rail Line) No. of platforms 4 No. of exits 8 No. of shops 18

Station location

Mei Foo Station
Chinese	美孚
Literal meaning	Gracious Confidence
Transcriptions Mandarin - Hanyu Pinyin Měifú Cantonese (Yue) - Jyutping mei5 fu1 - Yale Romanization mei5 fu1

Tsuen Wan Line platform

West Rail Line platform

Interchange passageway connecting Tsuen Wan Line and West Rail Line concourses

Mei Foo Station Exit D

Mei Foo is a Hong Kong MTR station located in Mei Foo Sun Chuen, Lai Chi Kok, Kowloon. It is an interchange station between the Tsuen Wan Line and the West Rail Line, situated between Lai Chi Kok and Lai King stations on the Tsuen Wan Line and Nam Cheong Station and Tsuen Wan West stations on the West Rail Line. Mei Foo's livery is blue in Tsuen Wan Line part and white in West Rail Line part.

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 Mei Foo Sun Chuen housing estate. The station is designed to facilitate the transportation of the residents of Mei Foo Sun Chuen housing estate, which has nearly 100 buildings and several schools, and eventually became the station 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 Central.

History

The station's original name was Lai Chi Kok during the planning stage, but upon its opening in 1982 the station was called "Lai Wan"^[1] (荔灣, meaning Lai Chi Kok Bay), and was renamed to its current name in 1985.

The West Rail Line (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 scenery of the park was greatly destroyed during the construction of the station, but the park was subsequently rebuilt over the station complex. The Tsuen Wan Line and West Rail Line stations merged into one station on 2 December 2007^{[citation needed]} in the MTR-KCR merger.

Station layout

R Roof	Roof garden	Exit G, Lai Chi Kok Park, footbridge to Ching Lai Court, Lai King Hill Road
C Concourse	West Rail Line concourse	Exit F, customer services, washrooms
		MTRShops, vending machinem, ATMs
P Platforms	Side platform, doors will open on the left
	Platform 1	West Rail Line towards Tuen Mun
	Platform 2	West Rail Line towards Hung Hom
	Side platform, doors will open on the left
G Ground	Interchange passageway	Exit D, Lai Chi Kok Park, Lai Wan Road
	Tsuen Wan Line Concourse	Exit A, B, C, E, Lai Wan Road, Mei Foo Sun Chuen
L1 Subway	Subway	Interchange passageway connecting West Rail Line and Tsuen Wan Line Concourses
L2 Concourse	Tsuen Wan Line concourse	Customer Service, MTRShops
		Hang Seng Bank, vending machine, ATMs
		Octopus promotion machine
L3 Platforms	Platform 1	Tsuen Wan Line towards Tsuen Wan
	Island platform, doors will open on the right
	Platform 2	Tsuen Wan Line towards Central

Both      Tsuen Wan Line platforms share the same island platform. Unlike Nam Cheong Station, the      Tsuen Wan Line and      West Rail Line platforms are considerably far apart. The concourses for these platforms are a five to ten minute walk along a connecting passageway. The West Rail Line concourse is on ground level, with the platforms right under it.

Entrances/exits

• A Broadway
• B: Mount Sterling Mall
• C1: Lai Wan Road
• C2: Humbert Street
• D: Lai Chi Kok Park (Lai Wan Road)
• E: Lai Wan Road
• F: Lai Chi Kok Park
• G: Lai King Hill Road

Transport connections

Bus routes

Mei Foo is a transportation hub due to its geographic location in the north-western end of Kowloon. All bus routes travelling between the suburbs of Tuen Mun, Tsuen Wan, Kwai Chung, Tsing Yi and Yuen Long in northwestern Hong Kong and the urban area of Kowloon and Hong Kong Island have to pass through Mei Foo. Major routes with stop at the "Mei Foo Railway Station" bus stop (Exit B for Kowloon bound buses and Exit A for New Territories bound buses) include: 30, 30X, 33A, 35S, 36A, 37, 38P, 40, 41, 41A, 42, 42A, 43C, 44, 44S, 45, 46, 52X, 58X, 59A, 59S, 59X, 60X, 63X, 66, 66X, 67X, 68X, 69X, 234P, 234X, 238P, 238X, 265B, E21, E21A, N21, N21A, N241 etc.

Additionally, the following bus routes terminate at Mei Foo bus terminus (Exit A) or the nearby Lai Chi Kok (formerly Lai Yuen) bus terminus: To Lok Wah Estate, Kwun Tong:

• 2A

To Star Ferry, Tsim Sha Tsui:

• 6, 6A

To Kowloon City Ferry Pier:

• 6C

To Riviera Gardens, Tsuen Wan:

• 38A

To Hin Keng Estate, Tai Wai:

• 46X, 86B

To Wong Nai Tau, Shatin:

• 86

To Hang Hau (North):

• 98C, 98S

To Shau Kei Wan:

• 102, N122

To South Horizons:

• 171

To Kennedy Town:

• 904

To Wan Chai Ferry Pier:

• 905

To Kwai Shing:

• N237

To Tuen Mun Ferry Pier:

• N260

To Tin Tsz:

• N269

Minibus routes

• 81K (Exit D) - To Hoi Lai Estate via Banyan Garden
• 90A (Exit A) - To Kwai Chung Hospital via Ching Lai Court
• 90M (Exit A) - To Highland Park via Ching Lai Court, Princess Margaret Hospital, Lai King Estate and Lai Yiu Estate
• 90P (Exit A) - To Princess Margaret Hospital via Ching Lai Court
• 92M (Exit A) - To Wah Yuen Chuen via Ching Lai Court, Princess Margaret Hospital and Cho Yiu Chuen

Neighbouring stations

Preceding station		MTR		Following station
Lai Chi Kok towards Central		Tsuen Wan Line		Lai King towards Tsuen Wan
Nam Cheong towards Hung Hom		West Rail Line		Tsuen Wan West towards Tuen Mun

References

1. ^ Yu, Pui-kwan, Robin, "A study on quasi-public space in large scale private residential development, case in Hong Kong", p. 28, University of Hong Kong, 2007