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Lam Tin 藍田

Lam Tin station, platform level.

Line Kwun Tong Code LAT Service hours 0606/0120 Connections Bus, Minibus

District Kwun Tong Area Lam Tin

Map MTR Website

Opened October 1989 Type of station Elevated Type of platforms Island No. of platforms 2 No. of exits 5 No. of escalators 17[1] No. of lifts 1[2] No. of shops 1

People exiting a train at Platform 1

The plaque of establishment

Customer service center - note that there is only one operator serving both queues

Originally Quarry Bay was the next station to Lam Tin on the Kwun Tong Line. With the realignment, travellers from Lam Tin to Tai Koo need to "travel one station and hop off" for 3 consecutive times, via the new Tseung Kwan O Line, which creates great inconvenience.

Lam Tin is a station on the Hong Kong MTR Kwun Tong Line built as a part of the extension to Quarry Bay. The station is linked to the hillside community of the Lam Tin area by a series of escalators.

In the 1980s, the Eastern Harbour Crossing (EHC or EHT) had been planned by the colonial government. Following the successful result of the MTR since 1978, the government decided to extend the Kwun Tong Line through a new tunnel to Quarry Bay.

It was later decided that before the entrance to the tunnel, trains would stop at a station at Lam Tin Valley, where it goes into the Sai Tso Wan Hill and then underground to the entrance of the tunnel.

The construction was completed by 1989. As part of his official visit with then Princess of Wales to Hong Kong, the Prince of Wales officiated the opening of the station, in which a commemoratitve plaque remains in display to this day.

After the opening of the EHC, Lam Tin, with the MTR station and bus terminals, became a crucial transport interchange in east Kowloon. The station serves passengers between Tseung Kwan O and other parts of Kowloon as well as between Hong Kong and Kowloon.

Platform Screen Doors have been in use since late August 2005.

Lam Tin Station is built on an elevated platform, in which half of the platform is immersed into the Lam Tin Hill^[3][4] and so the station is sealed like other underground stations.

The concourse is the first floor down the escalators from the hillside exits. It is divided into two parts: the paid area and the non-paid area. The paid area has escalators down to the platforms and has a postbox, while the non-paid area links the exits and houses a Hang Seng Bank branch.

Between the paid and non-paid areas there are the entrance gates and a customer service centre which serves both areas.

A single island-platform is in used.

• A: Lam Tin Bus Terminus, Kai Tin Estate
• B: Sceneway Plaza
• C: Lei Yue Mun Road west-bound direction
• D1: Sin Fat Road, Sai Tso Wan.
• D2: Block 17 of Sceneway Garden

See also: Lam Tin#Infrastructure

Following the MTR station's opening in 1989, the area around Lam Tin station has been developed into a major transportation interchange in Hong Kong. The shopping centre and Sceneway Plaza above the transportation interchange adjacent to the station were built on a site that used to be occupied by a hill-side squatter hut community.

The original Lam Tin community has also seen several rebuilding projects since the station had been built. The interchange has brought in new residential and commercial demand in the community. The bus termini, the Lei Yue Mun Interchange, and other public transportation facilities had transformed the Lam Tin area into an important transportation hub as well as a commercial and residential center.