Ho Man Tin

何文田
MTR MTR rapid transit station
Exit B2 of Ho Man Tin station in November 2023
General information
LocationIntersection between Chung Hau Street, Chatham Road North and Wuhu Street, Lo Lung Hang
Kowloon City District, Hong Kong
Coordinates22°18′33″N 114°10′58″E / 22.3093°N 114.1829°E / 22.3093; 114.1829
Owned byMTR Corporation (Kwun Tong line); KCR Corporation (Tuen Ma line)
Operated byMTR Corporation
Line(s)
Platforms
Tracks4
Construction
Structure typeUnderground
Platform levels2
AccessibleYes
Other information
Station codeHOM
History
Opened
Previous namesLo Lung Hang
Services
Preceding station MTR MTR Following station
Whampoa
Terminus
 Kwun Tong line Yau Ma Tei
towards Tiu Keng Leng
Hung Hom
towards Tuen Mun
 Tuen Ma line To Kwa Wan
towards Wu Kai Sha
To Kwa Wan
towards Diamond Hill
 East Kowloon line
(1970 scheme)
 Hung Hom
towards Rumsey
Route map
 Up arrow To Yau Ma Tei
Right arrow To To Kwa Wan
To Hung Hom Left arrow
L4 (Tuen Ma line)
L7 (Kwun Tong line)
Reversing siding
To Whampoa Down arrow
Location
Hong Kong MTR system map
Hong Kong MTR system map
Ho Man Tin
Location within the MTR system
Hong Kong MTR system map
Hong Kong MTR system map
Ho Man Tin
Ho Man Tin (Hong Kong urban core)
Ho Man Tin station
Chinese何文田
JyutpingHo4 man4 tin4
Literal meaningHo Man's Land

Ho Man Tin (Chinese: 何文田; Cantonese Yale: Hòmàntìn) is an underground MTR rapid transit station on the Kwun Tong line and the Tuen Ma line, located beneath Valley Road in Lo Lung Hang, as part of the Sha Tin to Central Link project.[3] The station's lower platforms (serving Kwun Tong line trains) opened on 23 October 2016 along with Whampoa station as part of the Kwun Tong line extension, while the upper platforms of the Tuen Ma line opened on 27 June 2021.

Despite its name, the station is technically not located within Ho Man Tin and is more than 1 km (0.62 mi) away from the central part of Ho Man Tin between Argyle Street and Waterloo Road. The station is nearer to central part of Hung Hom while Hung Hom station is located at reclaimed area of Hung Hom Bay.[4][5]

History

Ho Man Tin station was constructed under the HK$2.97 billion Kwun Tong Line Extension Contract 1001, which was awarded in 2011 to Nishimatsu Construction. This contract covered not only the station, but also the railway tunnels between Yau Ma Tei and Whampoa Station, including a ventilation building halfway between Yau Ma Tei and Ho Man Tin.[6]

The new 58,000 m2 (620,000 sq ft), eight-level railway station, cruciform in plan, was built on the site of the Valley Road Estate, which had been demolished a decade earlier. Built into a hillside, the station is partly underground and partly above-ground. The underground levels were excavated through the drill-and-blast method.[7]

The Kwun Tong line platforms of Ho Man Tin station opened on 23 October 2016. The Tuen Ma line platforms opened on 27 June 2021.

Station layout

U3 Footbridge Exit A3 (Upper Exit)
U2 Chung Hau Street Exit A3 (Lower Exit), Exit B2
Fat Kwong Street Exit A2
G Yan Fung Street Exit A1, Subway to Exit A2, A3, Shops
L1 Chatham Road North Exit B1, Lifts to Exit B2
L2
Concourse 		Concourse Customer service, Shops
L3 Passageway between concourse and platforms
L4
Tuen Ma line Platforms 		Platform 4 →      Tuen Ma line towards Wu Kai Sha (To Kwa Wan) →
Island platform, doors will open on the right
Platform 3 ←      Tuen Ma line towards Tuen Mun (Hung Hom)
L6
Transfer Lobby 		Transfer passageway between      Tuen Ma line and      Kwun Tong line
L7
Kwun Tong line Platforms 		Side platform, doors will open on the right
Platform 1 ←      Kwun Tong line towards Tiu Keng Leng (Yau Ma Tei)
Platform 2      Kwun Tong line towards Whampoa (Terminus) →
Side platform, doors will open on the right

The station is located between Chung Hau Street and Chatham Road North. While the Tuen Ma line platforms were boarded up, they were used as a passageway between the concourse and the Kwun Tong line platforms.[8]

During the peak period, some westbound Kwun Tong line trains terminate at platform 2 and commence at platform 1 past the scissors crossover to a reversing siding. The remaining trains continue to Whampoa, the next station eastbound as well as the line's western terminus. This arrangement exists due to the limited capacity of the single terminating track at Whampoa, which cannot turnaround all Kwun Tong line trains during the peak period.

Panorama of a Kwun Tong line platform in October 2016

Exits

Gallery

Station art

Multiple artwork is installed in this station. One of the artworks "Between Nature and the City" has a cat on bottom right corner. According to its creator Alex Heung, the cat is called "Ai Cow", and was owned by a Chinese medicine store in Ho Man Tin. The cat went missing in 2014 and netizens have launched a search campaign on Facebook. Through this cat, Alex highlights the connection and emotion of people, community and environment in his artwork.[10][11]

References

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Ho Man Tin Station.
  1. ^ "MTR Updates Construction Progress on SIL(E) and KTE Railway Projects" (PDF). MTR Corporation. 12 June 2014.
  2. ^ Pang, Damon (28 May 2021). "MTR's Tuen Ma Line to get going on June 27". RTHK. Hong Kong's newest MTR line will be fully operational from June 27, the government announced on Friday.
  3. ^ The slideshows provided by two railway companies for Sha Tin to Central Link, July, 2007, MTR Corporation and KCR Corporation
  4. ^ 搜查線：何文田站唔喺何文田？80後誓保地名. Oriental Daily News. 4 November 2016.
  5. ^ "The very Hong Kong reason why nine in ten MTR station names are actually inaccurate". South China Morning Post. 2 October 2017.
  6. ^ "All systems go for MTR's South Island Line and Kwun Tong Line Extension". Hong Kong Engineer. 39 (7). Hong Kong Institution of Engineers. July 2011.
  7. ^ Tam, Angela (November 2016). "Bringing the MTR to Ho Man Tin and Whampoa". Hong Kong Engineer. 44 (11). Hong Kong Institution of Engineers.
  8. ^ "Ho Man Tin Station layout" (PDF). MTR Corporation. Retrieved 3 November 2016.
  9. ^ a b c d e "Ho Man Tin Station street map" (PDF). MTR Corporation. Retrieved 3 November 2016.
  10. ^ "何文田．黃埔　港鐵藝術之旅" (in Chinese). 13 October 2016. Retrieved 2 December 2017.
  11. ^ "何文田．黃埔　港鐵藝術之旅". on.cc. 13 October 2016.
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