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Quarry Bay 鰂魚涌

Platform 4 on the Tseung Kwan O Line towards North Point.

Line      Island Line      Tseung Kwan O Line Code QUB Service hours 0604 / 0114 Connections bus

District Eastern Area Quarry Bay Map MTR Website Coordinates 22°17′16″N 114°12′35″E / 22.287841°N 114.209645°E / 22.287841; 114.209645Coordinates: 22°17′16″N 114°12′35″E / 22.287841°N 114.209645°E / 22.287841; 114.209645

Opened May 31, 1985 / August 6, 1989 Type of station Underground Type of platforms Island No. of platforms 4 No. of exits 3 No. of escalators 40 No. of lifts 4 No. of shops 7

Station location

Exit C

Quarry Bay is an underground station on the MTR Island Line on Hong Kong Island and Tseung Kwan O Line between Hong Kong Island and Tseung Kwan O New Town in the New Territories, Hong Kong. The livery is teal green.

The station was expanded in 1989 with the addition of Platforms 3 and 4, which served as the terminus of Kwun Tong Line until 2002. The line was then extended to North Point in August 18 of the same year. These two platforms are now a part of the Tseung Kwan O Line.

The station is noted for having the deepest platforms in the MTR network, with a maximum depth of 37m below ground level, to allow the tunnel to traverse Victoria Harbour. The station's concourses, however, are at ground level and open directly onto the street. As a result, four sets of escalators and many long passageways are necessary to connect the concourses to the deepest platforms.

Station layout

Since platforms 3 and 4 were built some time after platforms 1 and 2, no cross-platform interchanges are available in Quarry Bay station. Commuters interchanging between the two lines have to walk through a long passageway and two flights of escalators for about 5 minutes to reach the platforms of the other line.

This inconvenience and increasing passenger numbers were what prompted the MTRC to undergo the Quarry Bay Congestion Relief Works, which extended the      Kwun Tong Line one station to the west to North Point Station, where cross-platform interchanges are provided.

The platform numbers of platforms 3 and 4 were switched when the Kwun Tong Line is extended to North Point in 2001.

Platforms 1 and 2 are built beneath King's Road to Pak Fuk Road. Platforms 3 and 4 are built beneath King's Road to the south of Model Housing Estate.

Shops

• Circle K Mini-store
• Hang Seng Bank (with ATMs)
• Hang Seng Bank ATMs
• Maxim's Cakes
• 2 Bank of China (Hong Kong) ATMs
• An automatic photo machine (Max Sight Photo-Me)
• A vending machine (Swire Coca-Cola)

Entrances/exits

• A:  King's Road, Taikoo Place
• B:  Finnie Street
• C:  Model Lane, Harbour Plaza North Point

Entrances/exits A and B share the same concourse while entrance/exit C has a separate concourse. Passengers are advised to check the direction signs before leaving the platform.

Transport connections

Bus

To Tsz Wan Shan (Central)

• 116 (at exit A or B)

Neighbouring stations