Admiralty station

Admiralty (Jyutping: gam1 zung1, Cantonese Yale: Gāmjūng) is an MTR station in Admiralty, Hong Kong. The station's livery is blue and white. It is a major interchange station within the MTR network, being served by the most lines of any station, at four: the East Rail line, the Tsuen Wan line, the Island line, and the South Island line. The station and surrounding area are named after HMS Tamar, once the headquarters of the Royal Navy in Hong Kong. It was built on the former site of the naval dockyards, which were built in 1878 and demolished in the 1970s. Between 2011 and 2016, the station underwent major expansion to accommodate two new sets of platforms underneath the original structure to serve two more MTR lines, the South Island line and the East Rail line (part of the Sha Tin to Central Link project). The South Island line opened in 2016, while the East Rail line platforms opened in 2022. Accommodating over 100,000 passengers per peak hour, Admiralty has since become the busiest station in the MTR network.

The government gave the MTR Corporation first refusal on the 60,000-square-foot (5, 600 m2) site, which was sold to it in 1976 for around HK$200 million for cash and equity consideration. The Admiralty Centre, United Centre and Queensway Plaza commercial buildings formed part of the development, and sit directly above the station. On 12 February 1980, the segment of the Kwun Tong line between Central and Tsim Sha Tsui was opened. At the time, Admiralty and Central stations were the only two MTR stations on Hong Kong Island. The platforms began serving the Tsuen Wan line on 17 May 1982. Admiralty was designed to be a transfer station with the then-planned Island line. On 31 May 1985, the first phase of the Island line (between Admiralty and Chai Wan) opened, with Admiralty the temporary western terminus of the Island line. To facilitate cross-platform interchange, the Central- and Chai Wan-bound platforms were located on a very wide island platform on the lower level, while the Tsuen Wan-bound and termination platforms shared another very wide island platform on the upper level. When the second part of the

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