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Hung Hom station
Hung Hom (Chinese: 紅磡; Cantonese Yale: Hùngham) (formerly named Kowloon until 1996) is a passenger railway station in Hung Hom Bay, Kowloon, Hong Kong. Its livery is dark pink. It is an interchange station between the East Rail line and the Tuen Ma line domestic services of the MTR network. This station serves as the southern terminus of the East Rail Line in the early morning, before the first northbound train from Admiralty arrives. The station is located next to the Cross-Harbour Tunnel's northern portal, and thus it is also served by many cross-harbour bus routes.
Opened as the new southern terminus of the Kowloon–Canton Railway (KCR) on 24 November 1975, the station was substantially expanded in the 1990s, at which time it was given its present name. The KCR British Section was also renamed KCR East Rail in order to differentiate it from the new KCR West Rail, which opened on 20 December 2003 and was extended to Hung Hom station on 16 August 2009.
As part of the Sha Tin to Central Link project, the East Rail line was extended across Victoria Harbour to Admiralty via a new immersed tube tunnel to the south of Hung Hom. The West Rail line was also extended via eastern Kowloon to connect to the former Ma On Shan line, with the combined line being renamed "Tuen Ma line".
Hung Hom station also served as the southern terminus of cross-border through-trains from mainland China, which were halted in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic and officially ended in 2024.
An older station of the same name once existed on Chatham Road South. It was situated on the former coastline of Hung Hom Bay, at the southeastern corner of the Gun Club Hill Barracks (between the current-day Chung Sze Yuen Building A of the Hong Kong Polytechnic University and the Hong Kong History Museum).
This old Hung Hom station, a temporary wooden structure, operated from 1 October 1910 (the day the Kowloon–Canton Railway began operation) until 15 September 1921 It was later demolished and replaced by this station on 30 November 1975.
The old Kowloon station in Tsim Sha Tsui began operation on 28 March 1916. After decades of economic growth in Hong Kong, the station, situated at the seafront of Victoria Harbour, became too small and had no room for expansion. On 5 May 1975, Queen Elizabeth II unveiled a plaque commemorating the opening of the new terminal.[image needed] A new Kowloon station (the current Hung Hom station), situated to the east, was officially inaugurated by Chief Secretary Denys Roberts on 24 November 1975 as the new southern terminus of the East Rail line. However, it did not start operating until a few days later. The old terminal at Tsim Sha Tsui was closed on 29 November 1975. The first passenger train pulled out of Hung Hom the following morning at 8:26 am.
The new station cost HK$150 million and offered modern new facilities including a spacious waiting hall, a restaurant, a bar, a bookstore, a bank, escalators, and closed circuit television. It was built along with a bus terminus and a multi-storey car park.
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Hung Hom station
Hung Hom (Chinese: 紅磡; Cantonese Yale: Hùngham) (formerly named Kowloon until 1996) is a passenger railway station in Hung Hom Bay, Kowloon, Hong Kong. Its livery is dark pink. It is an interchange station between the East Rail line and the Tuen Ma line domestic services of the MTR network. This station serves as the southern terminus of the East Rail Line in the early morning, before the first northbound train from Admiralty arrives. The station is located next to the Cross-Harbour Tunnel's northern portal, and thus it is also served by many cross-harbour bus routes.
Opened as the new southern terminus of the Kowloon–Canton Railway (KCR) on 24 November 1975, the station was substantially expanded in the 1990s, at which time it was given its present name. The KCR British Section was also renamed KCR East Rail in order to differentiate it from the new KCR West Rail, which opened on 20 December 2003 and was extended to Hung Hom station on 16 August 2009.
As part of the Sha Tin to Central Link project, the East Rail line was extended across Victoria Harbour to Admiralty via a new immersed tube tunnel to the south of Hung Hom. The West Rail line was also extended via eastern Kowloon to connect to the former Ma On Shan line, with the combined line being renamed "Tuen Ma line".
Hung Hom station also served as the southern terminus of cross-border through-trains from mainland China, which were halted in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic and officially ended in 2024.
An older station of the same name once existed on Chatham Road South. It was situated on the former coastline of Hung Hom Bay, at the southeastern corner of the Gun Club Hill Barracks (between the current-day Chung Sze Yuen Building A of the Hong Kong Polytechnic University and the Hong Kong History Museum).
This old Hung Hom station, a temporary wooden structure, operated from 1 October 1910 (the day the Kowloon–Canton Railway began operation) until 15 September 1921 It was later demolished and replaced by this station on 30 November 1975.
The old Kowloon station in Tsim Sha Tsui began operation on 28 March 1916. After decades of economic growth in Hong Kong, the station, situated at the seafront of Victoria Harbour, became too small and had no room for expansion. On 5 May 1975, Queen Elizabeth II unveiled a plaque commemorating the opening of the new terminal.[image needed] A new Kowloon station (the current Hung Hom station), situated to the east, was officially inaugurated by Chief Secretary Denys Roberts on 24 November 1975 as the new southern terminus of the East Rail line. However, it did not start operating until a few days later. The old terminal at Tsim Sha Tsui was closed on 29 November 1975. The first passenger train pulled out of Hung Hom the following morning at 8:26 am.
The new station cost HK$150 million and offered modern new facilities including a spacious waiting hall, a restaurant, a bar, a bookstore, a bank, escalators, and closed circuit television. It was built along with a bus terminus and a multi-storey car park.