Sheung Wan station
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Sheung Wan 上環 | ||
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Hanyu Pinyin Shànghuán | | |
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Yale Romanization | seung6 waan4 | |
Jyutping | soeng6 waan4 |
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Sai Ying Pun towards Kennedy Town
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Island line | Central towards Chai Wan
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Sheung Wan is a station on the Island line of the Hong Kong MTR network. The station serves the neighbourhood of Sheung Wan and the western part of Central District. The livery colour of this station is khaki.
The station was originally planned in 1970 as
History
The station was originally proposed under the name Western Market in the 1967 Hong Kong Mass Transport Study, and was to be the southbound terminus of Kwun Tong line as well as its interchange with the Island line. Due to economic and contractual difficulties, the Hong Kong Government decided not to proceed with the construction of the full system, and the Island line was put on hold.
The
The station was originally planned to open along with the rest of the line, but completion of the station was delayed by the reprovisioning of government offices in the Fire Brigade Building (where Hang Seng Bank Head Office now stands) and the fruit wholesale market on New Market Street, which had to be demolished for the setting up of vertical shaft and crossover box, respectively. [2]
When Island line started operation on 31 May 1985, trains had to terminate at
Sheung Wan served as the western terminus of the Island line until the extension of the line to Kennedy Town in 2014.
Station layout
G | Street level | Exits |
L2 | Des Voeux Road Central Concourse | Customer Service, MTR Shops |
Hang Seng Bank, Vending Machines, ATM | ||
Rumsey Street Concourse | Customer Service, MTR Shops | |
Hang Seng Bank, ATM | ||
L3 | Des Voeux Road Central Concourse | Walkway to all platforms |
Rumsey Street Concourse | Alternate Platforms | |
L5 Platforms |
Side platform, doors will open on the left | |
Platform 1 | Central ) →
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Wall | ||
Platform 2 | ← Island line towards Sai Ying Pun )
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Side platform, doors will open on the left | ||
Source: [4] |
The platforms are built under
Rumsey Street platforms
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The platforms of Rumsey station, originally planned as the southern terminus of the East Kowloon line, still remain in Sheung Wan station. They are located near Exit E, forming part of the passageways between the concourse and the open platforms, and they run perpendicular to the Island line platforms below. The platforms were never completed, and have a length of about three MTR EMUs (while normal trains have eight each), roughly 60 metres long; do not have tracks nor overhead power lines; and have all tunnel entrances sealed with bricks.
In recent years,[when?] one of the proposals for the usage of the Rumsey Street platforms has been for them to be the terminus of the West Island line (then a separate line). However, with the decision to make the West Island line to be an extension of the Island line instead of a separate line, there are no more proposals to utilise the Rumsey Street platforms. Since then, the MTR Corporation has covered up the abandoned platform edges with new walls, and they are no longer visible.
Entrances and exits
The station comprises two separate concourses, namely the central concourse near Hillier Street, and the east concourse beneath Infinitus Plaza near Rumsey Street. The non-paid areas of the two concourses are not interconnected within the station.
- Central concourse
- A1: Des Voeux Road Central
- A2: Wing Lok Street, Bonham Strand, Hollywood Road
- B: Hillier Street, OTB Building, Western Market
- C: Connaught Road Central, Chu Kong Shipping Tower, Guangdong Investment Tower
- D: Hong Kong–Macau Ferry Terminal, China Merchants Tower, Shun Tak Centre
- East concourse
- E1/E2: Rumsey Street
- E3/E4/E5
: Infinitus Plaza[5]
Transport connections
Hong Kong Tramways
Commuters can get out of Sheung Wan station at Exits A1, B, E1 or E3 to get to the tramways on Des Voeux Road Central, for their journey further westwards to Sai Ying Pun, Shek Tong Tsui and Kennedy Town.
Hong Kong-Macau Ferry
The Hong Kong–Macau Ferry Terminal, located within Shun Tak Centre, provides frequent jetfoil, hydrofoil and hovercraft services to Macau and many other destinations in the Pearl River Delta. Exit D leads to the Ferry Terminal.
References
- ^ Choi, Barry (24 December 1980). "Island Line gets go-ahead". South China Morning Post.
- ^ "西環填海區填海工程完成後 耗資七億興建綜合批發市場". Wah Kiu Yat Po. 19 March 1982.
- ^ "地鐵上環站今啟用港島線慶全線通車". Ta Kung Pao. 23 May 1986.
- ^ a b "Sheung Wan Station layout" (PDF). MTR Corporation. Retrieved 31 July 2014.
- ^ "Sheung Wan Station street map" (PDF). MTR Corporation. Retrieved 31 July 2014.