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| name              = University
| name              = University
| native_name        = 大學
| native_name        = 大學
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| type              = [[MTR]] [[rapid transit]] station
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'''University station''' is an [[MTR]] [[List of MTR stations|station]] located near the [[Chinese University of Hong Kong]] in [[Ma Liu Shui]]. It is located between {{STN|Tai Po Market|x}} and {{STN|Fo Tan|x}}/{{STN|Racecourse|x|MTR}} stations on the {{lnl|MTR|eal}}. This station was the first [[post-war]] station to open on the line, and has the most [[Platform gap#Curved platforms|curved track]] of any MTR station.
'''University station''' (named Ma Liu Shui station until 11 December 1965) is an [[MTR]] [[List of MTR stations|station]] located near the [[Chinese University of Hong Kong]] in [[Ma Liu Shui]]. It is located between {{STN|Tai Po Market|x}} and {{STN|Fo Tan|x}}/{{STN|Racecourse|x|MTR}} stations on the {{lnl|MTR|eal}}. This station was the first [[post-war]] station to open on the line, and has the most [[Platform gap#Curved platforms|curved track]] of any MTR station.


== History ==
== History ==
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The station finally came into operation on 24 September 1956, at that time served by three up-trains and three down-trains daily.<ref name="annualreport195657">{{cite book|title=Annual Departmental Reports 1956–57: General Manager, Railway|date=1957|publisher=Government Printer|location=Hong Kong}}</ref><ref name="newrailwaystation">{{cite news|title=Service to new railway station|work=South China Morning Post|date=15 September 1956|page=7}}</ref><ref name="opened">{{cite news|title=New railway station opened|work=South China Morning Post|date=25 September 1956|page=6}}</ref> Though the [[Chinese University of Hong Kong]] was not founded until 1963, the adjacent Chung Chi College would become part of the new university in 1963, and would form the basis of CUHK's campus. The station was given its present name on 1 January 1967.<ref name="annualreport196667">{{cite book|title=Annual Departmental Reports 1966–67: General Manager, Railway|date=1967|publisher=Government Printer|location=Hong Kong}}</ref> In 1983, its tracks were electrified along with the rest of the KCR East Rail .
The station finally came into operation on 24 September 1956, at that time served by three up-trains and three down-trains daily.<ref name="annualreport195657">{{cite book|title=Annual Departmental Reports 1956–57: General Manager, Railway|date=1957|publisher=Government Printer|location=Hong Kong}}</ref><ref name="newrailwaystation">{{cite news|title=Service to new railway station|work=South China Morning Post|date=15 September 1956|page=7}}</ref><ref name="opened">{{cite news|title=New railway station opened|work=South China Morning Post|date=25 September 1956|page=6}}</ref> Though the [[Chinese University of Hong Kong]] was not founded until 1963, the adjacent Chung Chi College would become part of the new university in 1963, and would form the basis of CUHK's campus. The station was given its present name on 1 January 1967.<ref name="annualreport196667">{{cite book|title=Annual Departmental Reports 1966–67: General Manager, Railway|date=1967|publisher=Government Printer|location=Hong Kong}}</ref> In 1983, its tracks were electrified along with the rest of the KCR East Rail .


A Chinese goods wagon derailed north of the station at around 2:00&nbsp;p.m. on 4 June 1988. Nobody was injured, but the derailment led to thousands being stranded at University, Tai Po Market, and Fo Tan stations, leading to an "almost hysterical scramble for road transport".<ref name=scmp1>{{cite news|last1=Fu|first1=Winnie|title=No short-term cure for massive jams|url=http://hknews.lib.hku.hk.eproxy2.lib.hku.hk/newspaper/view/16_01.04/63183.pdf|publisher=South China Morning Post|date=6 June 1988}}</ref> At 5:00&nbsp;p.m. a lorry overturned in the northbound carriageway of the [[Lion Rock Tunnel]]. Together, the accidents caused a "great stoppage" in Kowloon and the eastern New Territories, leading to anger and fights at massive queues for taxi ranks and bus stations.<ref name=scmp1/> The [[Police Tactical Unit (Hong Kong)|Police Tactical Unit]] was dispatched to University station.<ref>{{cite news|title=Rush hour accidents clog up Kowloon|url=http://hknews.lib.hku.hk.eproxy2.lib.hku.hk/newspaper/view/16_07.02/67233.pdf|publisher=South China Morning Post|date=5 June 1988}}</ref>
A Chinese goods wagon derailed north of the station at around 2:00&nbsp;p.m. on 4 June 1988. Nobody was injured, but the derailment led to thousands being stranded at University, Tai Po Market, and Fo Tan stations, leading to an "almost hysterical scramble for road transport".<ref name=scmp1>{{cite news|last1=Fu|first1=Winnie|title=No short-term cure for massive jams|url=http://hknews.lib.hku.hk.eproxy2.lib.hku.hk/newspaper/view/16_01.04/63183.pdf|publisher=South China Morning Post|date=6 June 1988}}{{Dead link|date=December 2025 |bot=InternetArchiveBot }}</ref> At 5:00&nbsp;p.m. a lorry overturned in the northbound carriageway of the [[Lion Rock Tunnel]]. Together, the accidents caused a "great stoppage" in Kowloon and the eastern New Territories, leading to anger and fights at massive queues for taxi ranks and bus stations.<ref name=scmp1/> The [[Police Tactical Unit (Hong Kong)|Police Tactical Unit]] was dispatched to University station.<ref>{{cite news|title=Rush hour accidents clog up Kowloon|url=http://hknews.lib.hku.hk.eproxy2.lib.hku.hk/newspaper/view/16_07.02/67233.pdf|publisher=South China Morning Post|date=5 June 1988}}{{Dead link|date=December 2025 |bot=InternetArchiveBot }}</ref>


=== 2000 expansion ===
=== 2000 expansion ===
Originally, the station was the smallest in the system. In the early 1990s, the new town of [[Ma On Shan (town)|Ma On Shan]] was developed on the other side of [[Tolo Harbour]], and it seemed inefficient to make residents there go all the way to {{STN|Sha Tin|x}} to catch a train. Therefore, university station was expanded at a cost of $72.4 million, becoming an important interchange between buses and minibuses from Ma On Shan and the East Rail line.<ref name=kcr1/> Construction began in late 1998 and the expanded station, designed by [[Leigh & Orange]], was officially opened in October 2000. The total floor area of the station concourses increased from 800 square metres to 2,000 square metres.<ref name=kcr1>{{cite web|title=KCR University Station extended to provide passengers with a more spacious and comfortable travelling environment|url=http://www.kcrc.com/en/investor/pr/2000/001005c.html|publisher=Kowloon-Canton Railway Corporation|access-date=1 May 2014|date=5 October 2000}}</ref> Four years later, in December 2004, the [[Ma On Shan line|Ma On Shan rail]] opened to provide Ma On Shan with direct railway service. As a consequence, University station's importance to residents of Ma On Shan was strongly diminished.
Originally, the station was the smallest in the system. In the early 1990s, the new town of [[Ma On Shan (town)|Ma On Shan]] was developed on the other side of [[Tolo Harbour]], and it seemed inefficient to make residents there go all the way to {{STN|Sha Tin|x}} to catch a train. Therefore, university station was expanded at a cost of $72.4 million, becoming an important interchange between buses and minibuses from Ma On Shan and the East Rail line.<ref name=kcr1/> Construction began in late 1998 and the expanded station, designed by [[Leigh & Orange]], was officially opened in October 2000. The total floor area of the station concourses increased from 800 square metres to 2,000 square metres.<ref name=kcr1>{{cite web|title=KCR University Station extended to provide passengers with a more spacious and comfortable travelling environment|url=http://www.kcrc.com/en/investor/pr/2000/001005c.html|publisher=Kowloon-Canton Railway Corporation|access-date=1 May 2014|date=5 October 2000|archive-date=2 May 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140502032844/http://www.kcrc.com/en/investor/pr/2000/001005c.html|url-status=dead}}</ref> Four years later, in December 2004, the [[Ma On Shan line|Ma On Shan rail]] opened to provide Ma On Shan with direct railway service. As a consequence, University station's importance to residents of Ma On Shan was strongly diminished.


=== New station entrance ===
=== New station entrance ===
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After two incidents of children falling onto the tracks at University station in 1985, the issue was discussed in the [[Legislative Council of Hong Kong|Legislative Council]]. The Secretary for Transport asserted that the gaps were within "international safety limits", and that the gap could not be narrowed due to the curvature of the station as well as the "rather wider bodies" of the Chinese through trains which run through the station daily.<ref>{{cite web|title=Hansard|url=http://www.legco.gov.hk/yr85-86/english/lc_sitg/hansard/h851106.pdf|publisher=Legislative Council of Hong Kong|access-date=1 March 2014|page=40|date=6 November 1985}}</ref> A man who fractured his leg boarding a train at the station in 2008 asserted that he fell into a gap of about 35&nbsp;cm, while the MTR claimed it was only 22&nbsp;cm at the relevant section of platform.<ref name=court>{{cite web|title=CHAN CHUNG KUEN v MTR CORPORATION LIMITED DCPI 764/2009|url=http://legalref.judiciary.gov.hk/doc/judg/word/vetted/other/en/2009/DCPI000764_2009.doc|publisher=District Court of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region|access-date=1 March 2014|archive-date=12 April 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160412043557/http://legalref.judiciary.gov.hk/doc/judg/word/vetted/other/en/2009/DCPI000764_2009.doc|url-status=dead}}</ref>
After two incidents of children falling onto the tracks at University station in 1985, the issue was discussed in the [[Legislative Council of Hong Kong|Legislative Council]]. The Secretary for Transport asserted that the gaps were within "international safety limits", and that the gap could not be narrowed due to the curvature of the station as well as the "rather wider bodies" of the Chinese through trains which run through the station daily.<ref>{{cite web|title=Hansard|url=http://www.legco.gov.hk/yr85-86/english/lc_sitg/hansard/h851106.pdf|publisher=Legislative Council of Hong Kong|access-date=1 March 2014|page=40|date=6 November 1985}}</ref> A man who fractured his leg boarding a train at the station in 2008 asserted that he fell into a gap of about 35&nbsp;cm, while the MTR claimed it was only 22&nbsp;cm at the relevant section of platform.<ref name=court>{{cite web|title=CHAN CHUNG KUEN v MTR CORPORATION LIMITED DCPI 764/2009|url=http://legalref.judiciary.gov.hk/doc/judg/word/vetted/other/en/2009/DCPI000764_2009.doc|publisher=District Court of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region|access-date=1 March 2014|archive-date=12 April 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160412043557/http://legalref.judiciary.gov.hk/doc/judg/word/vetted/other/en/2009/DCPI000764_2009.doc|url-status=dead}}</ref>


Today, the station is one of three on the network marked with special signage noting the "gap black spots". The platform edge is outfitted with flashing neon lighting and "{{lang|zh-HK|小心空隙}}" (mind the gap) decals,<ref name=court/> and typically there are several staff on duty on the platform. This station, along with the other stations along the East Rail Line, will eventually receive platform edge doors as part of a retrofitting program.
Today, the station is one of three on the network marked with special signage noting the "gap black spots". The platform edge is outfitted with flashing neon lighting and "{{lang|zh-HK|小心空隙}}" (mind the gap) decals,<ref name=court/> and typically there are several staff on duty on the platform.{{Citation needed|date=October 2025}} Constructions of platform edge doors have been completed on 11 May 2025.<ref>{{Cite news |last=賴 |first=卓盈 |date=2025-05-11 |title=港鐵大學站自動閘門工程今完成　全線餘下旺角東、羅湖站下月竣工 |url=https://www.hk01.com/18%E5%8D%80%E6%96%B0%E8%81%9E/60237444/%E6%B8%AF%E9%90%B5%E5%A4%A7%E5%AD%B8%E7%AB%99%E8%87%AA%E5%8B%95%E9%96%98%E9%96%80%E5%B7%A5%E7%A8%8B%E4%BB%8A%E5%AE%8C%E6%88%90-%E5%85%A8%E7%B7%9A%E9%A4%98%E4%B8%8B%E6%97%BA%E8%A7%92%E6%9D%B1-%E7%BE%85%E6%B9%96%E7%AB%99%E4%B8%8B%E6%9C%88%E7%AB%A3%E5%B7%A5 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://archive.today/20251004152802/https://www.hk01.com/%E7%A4%BE%E6%9C%83%E6%96%B0%E8%81%9E/60267180/%E6%B8%AF%E9%90%B5%E8%8D%83%E7%81%A3%E7%B6%AB%E5%91%A8%E6%97%A5%E6%B8%AC%E8%A9%A6%E6%96%B0%E4%BF%A1%E8%99%9F%E7%B3%BB%E7%B5%B1-%E6%96%BC%E9%9D%9E%E8%A1%8C%E8%BB%8A%E6%99%82%E6%AE%B5%E6%A8%A1%E6%93%AC%E7%B9%81%E5%BF%99%E6%99%82%E9%96%93%E9%81%8B%E4%BD%9C |archive-date=2025-10-04 |access-date=2025-10-04 |work=[[HK01]]}}</ref>


== Station layout ==
== Station layout ==
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|style="border-top:solid 1px gray;border-bottom:solid 1px gray;width:50px;vertical-align:top;" rowspan=5|'''P<br />Platforms'''
|style="border-top:solid 1px gray;border-bottom:solid 1px gray;width:50px;vertical-align:top;" rowspan=5|'''P<br />Platforms'''
|style="border-top:solid 1px gray;border-bottom:solid 1px gray;width:100px;"|West Concourse
|style="border-top:solid 1px gray;border-bottom:solid 1px gray;width:100px;"|West Concourse
|style="border-top:solid 1px gray;border-bottom:solid 1px gray;width:460px;"|Exit A, C, <s>D</s>, Customer Service, CUHK shuttle bus terminus
|style="border-top:solid 1px gray;border-bottom:solid 1px gray;width:460px;"|Exit C, D, Customer Service, CUHK shuttle bus terminus
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|style="border-right:solid 2px black;border-left:solid 2px black;border-bottom:solid 2px black;text-align:center;" colspan=2|<small>[[Side platform]], doors will open on the left</small>
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|style="border-top:solid 2px black;border-right:solid 2px black;border-left:solid 2px black;border-bottom:solid 1px gray;text-align:center;" colspan=2|<small>[[Side platform]], doors will open on the left</small>
|style="border-top:solid 2px black;border-right:solid 2px black;border-left:solid 2px black;border-bottom:solid 1px gray;text-align:center;" colspan=2|<small>[[Side platform]], doors will open on the left</small>
|-
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|style="border-bottom:solid 1px gray;vertical-align:top;" rowspan=3|'''C'''
|style="border-bottom:solid 1px gray;vertical-align:top;" rowspan=3|'''C<br/>Concourse (Ground)'''
|style="border-bottom:solid 1px gray;vertical-align:top;" rowspan=2|East Concourse
|style="border-bottom:solid 1px gray;vertical-align:top;" rowspan=2|East Concourse
|Exit B, Customer Service, transport interchange, washrooms
|Exit A, B, Customer Service, transport interchange, washrooms
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|-
|style="border-bottom:solid 1px gray;"|Shops, [[vending machine]]s, [[automatic teller machine]]s (HSBC)
|style="border-bottom:solid 1px gray;"|Shops, [[vending machine]]s, [[automatic teller machine]]s (HSBC)
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|style="border-bottom:solid 1px gray;"|Passageway to both platforms  
|style="border-bottom:solid 1px gray;"|Passageway to both platforms  
|}<ref>{{MTRsource|layout|uni|University|16 November 2014}}</ref>{{notelist}}
|}<ref>{{MTRsource|layout|uni|University|16 November 2014}}</ref>{{notelist}}
[[File:University Station platforms 2025 05 part1.jpg|250px|thumb|Platforms 1]]
[[File:University Station platforms 2025 05 part2.jpg|250px|thumb|Platforms 2]]


== Entrances/exits ==
== Entrances/exits ==

Latest revision as of 15:16, 29 December 2025

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History

Early history

Construction of the station, initially named Ma Liu Shui after the locality in which it is situated, began in January 1955.[1] It was completed in August 1955.[2] There had been a longstanding need to build a passing place along the stretch of track between Tai Po and Sha Tin, as the railway was only single-track at that time, and it was convenient to build a station at the same time to serve the new Chung Chi College.

The new station comprised "a single storeyed station building, a flush latrine, 1,250 linear feet of platforms and a loop line of 1,900 linear feet".[2] The opening was delayed due to the late arrival of signalling equipment ordered through the Crown Agents.[2]

The station finally came into operation on 24 September 1956, at that time served by three up-trains and three down-trains daily.[3][4][5] Though the Chinese University of Hong Kong was not founded until 1963, the adjacent Chung Chi College would become part of the new university in 1963, and would form the basis of CUHK's campus. The station was given its present name on 1 January 1967.[6] In 1983, its tracks were electrified along with the rest of the KCR East Rail .

A Chinese goods wagon derailed north of the station at around 2:00 p.m. on 4 June 1988. Nobody was injured, but the derailment led to thousands being stranded at University, Tai Po Market, and Fo Tan stations, leading to an "almost hysterical scramble for road transport".[7] At 5:00 p.m. a lorry overturned in the northbound carriageway of the Lion Rock Tunnel. Together, the accidents caused a "great stoppage" in Kowloon and the eastern New Territories, leading to anger and fights at massive queues for taxi ranks and bus stations.[7] The Police Tactical Unit was dispatched to University station.[8]

2000 expansion

Originally, the station was the smallest in the system. In the early 1990s, the new town of Ma On Shan was developed on the other side of Tolo Harbour, and it seemed inefficient to make residents there go all the way to Template:STN to catch a train. Therefore, university station was expanded at a cost of $72.4 million, becoming an important interchange between buses and minibuses from Ma On Shan and the East Rail line.[9] Construction began in late 1998 and the expanded station, designed by Leigh & Orange, was officially opened in October 2000. The total floor area of the station concourses increased from 800 square metres to 2,000 square metres.[9] Four years later, in December 2004, the Ma On Shan rail opened to provide Ma On Shan with direct railway service. As a consequence, University station's importance to residents of Ma On Shan was strongly diminished.

New station entrance

A new exit D opened at the north end of the station in 2012 to serve several newly opened teaching buildings nearby. The structure was awarded LEED silver precertification for features such as natural daytime lighting, rainwater storage for irrigation, natural ventilation, and furniture made from recycled railway sleepers.[10] The entrance is unusual on the MTR system in that it opens directly onto a platform rather than a concourse level, meaning that it is convenient only for those using northbound trains because there is no way to cross the tracks at that area. To access southbound trains from exit D, passengers must walk the length of the platform to cross the tracks using the exit A/B concourse.

Safety

File:University Station platforms 2025 05 part2.jpg
University station platform

The platform is built along a curve, causing gaps of a range of different sizes to exist while the trains are lined up to the platform. The KCRC responded to these complaints by assuring passengers that they will install plates on the side of platforms to reduce the gap, though this has not been done.

After two incidents of children falling onto the tracks at University station in 1985, the issue was discussed in the Legislative Council. The Secretary for Transport asserted that the gaps were within "international safety limits", and that the gap could not be narrowed due to the curvature of the station as well as the "rather wider bodies" of the Chinese through trains which run through the station daily.[11] A man who fractured his leg boarding a train at the station in 2008 asserted that he fell into a gap of about 35 cm, while the MTR claimed it was only 22 cm at the relevant section of platform.[12]

Today, the station is one of three on the network marked with special signage noting the "gap black spots". The platform edge is outfitted with flashing neon lighting and "Script error: No such module "Lang"." (mind the gap) decals,[12] and typically there are several staff on duty on the platform.Script error: No such module "Unsubst". Constructions of platform edge doors have been completed on 11 May 2025.[13]

Station layout

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Platforms 		West Concourse Exit C, D, Customer Service, CUHK shuttle bus terminus
Side platform, doors will open on the left
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Platform Template:MTR platform ← Template:Rcb East Rail line towards Template:STN (Template:STN race days, Template:STN all times)
Side platform, doors will open on the left
C
Concourse (Ground) 		East Concourse Exit A, B, Customer Service, transport interchange, washrooms
Shops, vending machines, automatic teller machines (HSBC)
Passageway Passageway to both platforms

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File:University Station platforms 2025 05 part1.jpg
Platforms 1
File:University Station platforms 2025 05 part2.jpg
Platforms 2

Entrances/exits

References

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