Ho Man Tin () is an underground MTR rapid transit station on the and the . It is located beneath Valley Road in Lo Lung Hang, and was constructed as part of the Sha Tin to Central Link project.The slideshows provided by two railway companies for Sha Tin to Central Link, July, 2007, MTR Corporation and KCR Corporation
Despite its name, the station is technically not located within Ho Man Tin and is more than away from the central part of Ho Man Tin between Argyle Street and Waterloo Road. The station is nearer to the central part of Hung Hom while Hung Hom station is located at reclaimed area of Hung Hom Bay.
History Ho Man Tin station was constructed under the HK$2.97 billion Kwun Tong Line Extension Contract 1001, which was awarded in 2011 to Nishimatsu Construction. This contract covered the station, the railway tunnels between Yau Ma Tei and Whampoa Station, and a ventilation building halfway between Yau Ma Tei and Ho Man Tin.
The new , eight-level railway station, cruciform in plan, was built on the site of the Valley Road Estate, which had been demolished a decade earlier. Built into a hillside, the station is partly underground and partly above-ground. The underground levels were excavated through the drill-and-blast method.
The Kwun Tong line platforms of Ho Man Tin station opened on 23 October 2016. The Tuen Ma line platforms opened on 27 June 2021.
Station layout The station is located between Chung Hau Street and Chatham Road North. While the Tuen Ma line platforms were boarded up, they were used as a passageway between the concourse and the Kwun Tong line platforms.
During peak periods, some westbound Kwun Tong line trains terminate at platform 2 and commence at platform 1 past the scissors crossover to a reversing siding. The remaining trains continue to Whampoa, the next station eastbound as well as the line's western terminus. This arrangement exists due to the limited capacity of the single terminating track at Whampoa, which cannot turnaround all Kwun Tong line trains during peak periods. U3Footbridge Exit A3 (Upper Exit), Exit B1U2Chung Hau StreetExit A3 (Lower Exit), Exit B2Fat Kwong StreetExit A2GYan Fung StreetExit A1, A4, Subway to Exit A2&A3, ShopsL1Chatham Road NorthExit B1, Lifts to Exit B2L2ConcourseConcourseCustomer service, Shops, Exit CL3Passageway between concourse and platformsL4Tuen Ma line PlatformsPlatform towards () Island platform, doors will open on the rightPlatform Tuen Ma line towards ()L6 Transfer LobbyTransfer passageway between Tuen Ma line and Kwun Tong lineL7 Kwun Tong line PlatformsPlatform black;textIsland platform, doors will open on the rightPlatform Kwun Tong Line towards ()
Exits A1: Yan Fung Street A2: Fat Kwong Street A3: Ho Man Tin Estate, Oi Man Estate, Hong Kong Metropolitan University A4: ONMANTIN B1: Chatham Road North (Hung Hom) B2: Transport Interchange, Oi Man Estate C: In one
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Station art Multiple artwork is installed in this station. One of the artworks "Between Nature and the City" has a cat on bottom right corner. According to its creator Alex Heung, the cat is called "Ai Cow", and was owned by a Chinese medicine store in Ho Man Tin. The cat went missing in 2014 and netizens have launched a search campaign on Facebook. Through this cat, Alex highlights the connection and emotion of people, community and environment in his artwork.
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