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Mei Foo 美孚

Mei Foo Station

Line Tsuen Wan West Rail Code MEF Service hours 0609/0115 Connections Bus, Minibus

District Sham Shui Po Area Lai Chi Kok

Map MTR Website

Opened May 1982 / 20 December 2003 Type of station Underground Type of platforms Island/Side No. of platforms 2 No. of exits 7

Mei Foo Station
Chinese:	美孚
Transliterations Mandarin - Hanyu Pinyin: Měifú Yue (Cantonese) - Jyutping: mei5 fu1 - Yale Romanization: mei5 fu1

Mei Foo is a Hong Kong MTR station located in Lai Chi Kok, Kowloon. It is an interchange station between the Tsuen Wan Line and the West Rail Line. It is between Lai Chi Kok and Lai King stations on the Tsuen Wan Line and Nam Cheong Station and Tsuen Wan West stations on the West Rail. Mei Foo's livery is blue.

The station's original name was Lai Chi Kok, but upon its opening in 1982 the station was called "Lai Wan" (荔灣, meaning Lai Chi Kok Bay), and was renamed to its current name in 1985. The Tsuen Wan Line part of the station is a simple through station with a central island platform, under a demolished road named Lai Wan Road between the rows of residential buildings in Mei Foo Sun Chuen housing estate.

The station is designed to facilitate the transportation of the residents of Mei Foo Sun Chuen housing etate, which has nearly 100 buildings and several schools, and eventually became the station between the Kowloon urban area and the new town of Tsuen Wan. If there is heavy traffic on the main road into urban Kowloon, the Kwai Chung Road, many commuters get off their buses and use this station as their link to Central.

The West Rail Line part of the station was opened on 20 December 2003. The station is located in the middle of Lai Chi Kok Park, slightly to the west of the Tsuen Wan Line's part of the station. The scenery of the park was greatly destroyed during the construction of the station, but the park was subsequently rebuilt over the station complex. The Tsuen Wan Line and West Rail Line stations merged to one station on 2 December 2007 in the MTR-KCR merger.

Contents 1 Station layout 2 Entrances/exits 3 Transport connections 3.1 Bus routes 3.2 Minibus routes 4 Gallery 5 Neighbouring stations

R	Exits	Exits, Lai Chi Kok Park
C Concourse	West Rail Line concourse	Exits, customer services, washrooms
		MTRShops, vending machinem, ATMs
P Platforms	Side platform, doors will open on the left
	Platform 1	West Rail Line towards Tuen Mun
	Platform 2	West Rail Line towards Nam Cheong
	Side platform, doors will open on the left
G Ground	-	Exits, transport interchange
L1 Subway	Subway	Subway connecting two concourses
L2 Concourse	Tsuen Wan Line concourse	Customer Service, MTRShops
		Hang Seng Bank, vending machine, ATMs
		Octopus promotion machine
L3 Platforms	Platform 1	Tsuen Wan Line towards Tsuen Wan
	Island platform, doors will open on the right
	Platform 2	Tsuen Wan Line towards Central

Platforms 1 and 2 share the same island platform. Unlike Nam Cheong Station, the Tsuen Wan Line and West Rail Line platforms are considerably far apart. To change trains here, it's necessary for the passenger to ride up the escalator and walk along a connecting passageway for 5 to 10 minutes to reach the other concourse.

• A Mei Foo Sun Chuen (Stages 1-4, 8)
• B: Mei Foo Sun Chuen (Stage 7), Mount Sterling Mall
• C1: Lai Wan Road
• C2: Mei Foo Sun Chuen (Stage 7), Mount Sterling Mall
• D: Lai Chi Kok Park
• F: Lai Chi Kok Park
• G: Lai King Hill Road

Mei Foo is a transportation hub due to its geographic location in the city. All bus routes travelling between suburbs of Tuen Mun, Tsuen Wan, Kwai Chung, Tsing Yi and Yuen Long in northwestern Hong Kong and the urban area of Kowloon and Hong Kong Island have to pass through Mei Foo. Major routes with stop at Mei Foo (Exit B for Kowloon bound buses and Exit A for New Territories bound buses) include: 30, 30X, 33A, 35S, 36A, 37, 38P, 40, 41, 41A, 42, 42A, 43C, 44, 44S, 45, 46, 52X, 58X, 59A, 59S, 59X, 60X, 63X, 66, 66X, 67X, 68X, 69X, 234P, 234X, 238P, 238X, 265B, E21, E21A, N21, N21A, N241 etc.

Additionally, the following bus routes terminate at Mei Foo bus terminus (Exit A) or the nearby Lai Chi Kok (formerly Lai Yuen) bus terminus:

To Lok Wa Estate, Kwun Tong:

• 2A

To Tsim Sha Tsui Ferry Pier:

• 6, 6A

To Kowloon City Ferry Pier:

• 6C

To Riviera Gardens, Tsuen Wan:

• 38A

To Hin Keng Estate, Tai Wai:

• 46X, 86B

To Wong Nai Tau, Shatin:

• 86

To Hang Hau:

• 98C, 98S

To Shau Kei Wan:

• 102, N102

To Kennedy Town:

• 904

To Wan Chai Ferry Pier:

• 905

To Kwai Shing:

• N237

To Tuen Mun Ferry Pier:

• N260

To Tin Tsz:

• N269

• 81K (Exit D) - To Hoi Lai Estate via Banyan Garden
• 90A (Exit A) - To Kwai Chung Hospital via Ching Lai Court
• 90M (Exit A) - To Highland Park via Ching Lai Court, Princess Margaret Hospital, Lai King Estate and Lai Yiu Estate
• 90P (Exit A) - To Princess Margaret Hospital via Ching Lai Court
• 92M (Exit A) - To Wah Yuen Chuen via Ching Lai Court, Princess Margaret Hospital and Cho Yiu Chuen

Exit F

Exit G

The West Rail Line concourse

Escalator

Preceding station		MTR		Following station
Lai Chi Kok towards Central		Tsuen Wan Line		Lai King towards Tsuen Wan
Nam Cheong Terminus		West Rail Line		Tsuen Wan West towards Tuen Mun

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