Shau Kei Wan station

MTR station on Hong Kong Island

Shau Kei Wan

筲箕灣

MTR rapid transit station

Platform 2

Chinese name

Traditional Chinese

筲箕灣

Simplified Chinese

筲箕湾

Hanyu Pinyin

Shāojīwān

Cantonese Yale

Sāaugēiwāan

Literal meaning

Bamboo basin bay

Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyin	Shāojīwān
Yue: Cantonese
Yale Romanization	Sāaugēiwāan
Jyutping	Saau1gei1waan1

General information

Location

Mong Lung Street, Shau Kei Wan
Eastern District, Hong Kong

Coordinates

Tram
Bus, minibus

Construction

Structure type

Underground

Platform levels

Accessible

Yes

Other information

Station code

SKW

History

Opened

31 May 1985; 38 years ago (1985-05-31)

Services

Preceding station	MTR			Following station
Sai Wan Ho towards Kennedy Town		Island line		Heng Fa Chuen towards Chai Wan

Track layout

Legend

					to Heng Fa Chuen

			1
			2


					to Sai Wan Ho

Location
Shau Kei Wan Location within the MTR system Show map of MTR Shau Kei Wan Shau Kei Wan (Hong Kong Island) Show map of Hong Kong Island

Shau Kei Wan (Chinese: 筲箕灣; Cantonese Yale: Sāaugēiwāan) is a station on the Hong Kong MTR Island line in the neighborhood of Shau Kei Wan. Its concourse is located underground, and an island platform is used to serve trains on the Island line, to and from Kennedy Town and Chai Wan. Its station livery is blue.

The retrofitting of platform screen doors was completed in October 2005.

History

Construction of the station commenced in May 1982 on a newly reclaimed area of Aldrich Bay, and was carried out by Gammon Construction. Approximately 110,348 cubic metres (3,896,903 cu ft) of material was excavated during the course of construction. The station is around 12 metres (39 ft 4 in) deep and 190 metres (623 ft 4 in) long, and was built "bottom-up" within a steel sheet piled cofferdam. The structure was designed to support the new Island Eastern Corridor, an elevated motorway, directly above it.^[1]

Shau Kei Wan station opened on 31 May 1985 as part of the first phase of the Island line.

Station layout

Platforms 1 and 2 share the same island platform.

G	Ground level	Exits
C/L1	Concourse	Customer Service, MTRShops
		Vending machines, ATM
P Platform	Platform 1	→ Island line towards Chai Wan (Heng Fa Chuen) →
	Island platform, doors will open on the right
	Platform 2	← Island line towards Kennedy Town (Sai Wan Ho)

^[2]

Entrances and exits

A1: Perfect Mount Gardens
A2: Po Man Street
A3: Shau Kei Wan Bus Terminus
B1: Shau Kei Wan Main Street East
B2: Hong Kong Museum of Coastal Defence
B3: Aldrich Bay Road
C: Mong Lung Street
D1: Tam Kung Temple, Hong Kong Art School
D2: Aldrich Garden^[3]

Transport connections

Hong Kong Tramways (Exit B1)

Hong Kong Island's tram system terminates at Shau Kei Wan. The terminus can be accessed from Exit B1 along Shau Kei Wan Main Street East.

References

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Shau Kei Wan Station.

^ MTRC Island Line Opening Commemorative Book. Mass Transit Railway Corporation. 1985. pp. 15–17.
^ "Shau Kei Wan Station layout" (PDF). MTR Corporation. Retrieved 31 July 2014.
^ "Shau Kei Wan Station street map" (PDF). MTR Corporation. Retrieved 31 July 2014.