Mei Foo station

Location
	Mei Foo Location within the MTR system

Track layout
	Legend
	Tsuen
	Wan West
	Nam
	Cheong

Mei Foo

美孚
Mei Foo; 美孚
	Station exterior (Tuen Ma line building near exit G)
Chinese name
Chinese	美孚
Cantonese Yale	Méih fū
Literal meaning	Gracious Confidence
Hanyu Pinyin
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyin	Měifú
Yue: Cantonese
Yale Romanization	Méih fū
Jyutping	Mei5 fu1
General information
Location	Tsuen Wan line : Mount Sterling, Mei Foo Sun Chuen, Lai Chi Kok,; Tuen Ma line : Lai Chi Kok Park, Lai Chi Kok,; Sham Shui Po District; Hong Kong
Coordinates	22°20′17″N 114°08′15″E / 22.3381°N 114.1376°E
System	MTR rapid transit station
Owned by	Tsuen Wan line : MTR Corporation; Tuen Ma line : Kowloon-Canton Railway Corporation;
Operated by	MTR Corporation
Lines	Tsuen Wan line; Tuen Ma line; West Rail line (Until 27 June 2021);
Platforms	4; Tsuen Wan line (1 island platform); Tuen Ma line (2 side platforms);
Tracks	4
Connections	Bus, minibus;
Construction
Structure type	Tsuen Wan line : Underground; Tuen Ma line : Ground, covered and sealed;
Accessible	Yes
Architect	Mass Transit Railway Corporation (Tsuen Wan Line station); Aedas (then known as Liang Peddle Thorp Architects & Planners) and Hong Kong Government city planners (West Rail/Tuen Ma Line station)
Other information
Station code	MEF
History
Opened	Tsuen Wan line : 17 May 1982; 44 years ago; West Rail line : 20 December 2003; 22 years ago;
Electrified	Tsuen Wan line : 1,500 V DC (Overhead line); West Rail line : 25 kV 50 Hz AC (Overhead line);
Previous names	Lai Wan
Services
Track layout
Track layout
	Legend
	Tsuen
	Wan West
	Nam
	Cheong
Location
Location
	Mei Foo Location within the MTR system

Mei Foo station

Former name (1982-1985)

Traditional Chinese

荔灣

Simplified Chinese

荔湾

Literal meaning

Lychee bay

Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyin	Lìwān
Yue: Cantonese
Yale Romanization	Laih wāan
Jyutping	Lai6 waan1

Mei Foo (Chinese: 美孚) (formerly named Lai Wan until 31 May 1985) is an MTR station on the Tsuen Wan Line and the Tuen Ma line. It is located under Mei Foo Sun Chuen, Lai Chi Kok, New Kowloon in Hong Kong. When not counting the out-of-system transfer between Tsim Sha Tsui and East Tsim Sha Tsui stations, Mei Foo is the only interchange station between those two lines. The station is situated between Lai Chi Kok and Lai King stations on the Tsuen Wan Line and Nam Cheong and Tsuen Wan West stations on the Tuen Ma Line. Opened on 17 May 1982, Mei Foo station's colour scheme is blue, but white for the Tuen Ma Line.

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 the Mei Foo Sun Chuen housing estate. The station is designed to facilitate the transport needs of the residents of Mei Foo Sun Chuen housing estate, consisting of 132 buildings and several schools, and the point of transfer between the Kowloon urban area and the new town of Tsuen Wan. If there is heavy traffic on Kwai Chung Road, the main road into urban Kowloon, many commuters transfer from buses to trains here to continue to Kowloon and Central on Hong Kong Island.

History

Tsuen Wan Line

The station's original name was Lai Chi Kok during the planning stage, but upon its opening on 17 May 1982 the station was called "Lai Wan"^[1] (荔灣, short for Lai Chi Kok Bay), and was renamed to its current name on 31 May 1985 when the Island line opened. Kumagai Gumi was the contractor for the station's construction.

West Rail line and now, the Tuen Ma Line

The West Rail line (then known as KCR West Rail) part of the station opened on 20 December 2003 along with the rest of the line. That section is located in the middle of Lai Chi Kok Park, slightly to the west of the Tsuen Wan Line section of the station. The contract for the station on the West Rail Line (now Tuen Ma Line) was awarded to Kier-Zen Pacific joint venture.^[2] The Tsuen Wan line and West Rail line stations merged into one station on 2 December 2007 in the MTR–KCR merger.

On 27 June 2021, the West Rail line officially merged with the Ma On Shan line (which was already extended into the Tuen Ma Line Phase 1 at the time) in East Kowloon to form the new Tuen Ma line, as part of the Shatin to Central link project. Mei Foo became an intermediate station on the Tuen Ma Line.

Station layout

Both Tsuen Wan Line platforms share the same island platform. Unlike at Nam Cheong station (where there is one cross-platform interchange between the Tung Chung line and the Tuen Ma Line), the Tsuen Wan line and Tuen Ma line platforms are relatively far apart. The concourses for these platforms are a five to ten-minute walk along a connecting passageway.

Although the Tuen Ma Line platform is constructed at ground level, the station and surrounding track is covered to avoid disturbance to the nearby park.

U1	roof garden	Exit G, Lai Chi Kok Park, footbridge to Ching Lai Court, Lai King Hill Road
C / G	Tuen Ma Line concourse	Exit F, customer services, washrooms, shops, vending machines, automatic teller machines
P / L1	side platform
	Platform 1	Tuen Ma line towards Tuen Mun (Tsuen Wan West)
	Platform 2	Tuen Ma Line towards Wu Kai Sha (Nam Cheong)
	side platform
G	passageway	Exit D, Lai Chi Kok Park
G	Tsuen Wan Line concourse	Exits A, B, C, E
L1	subway	passageway connecting Tuen Ma Line and Tsuen Wan Line concourses
L2	Tsuen Wan Line concourse	customer service centre, shops, vending machine, automatic teller machines, Octopus promotion machine
L3	Platform 1	Tsuen Wan line towards Tsuen Wan (Lai King)
	island platform
	Platform 2	Tsuen Wan Line towards Central (Lai Chi Kok)