Diamond Hill (MTR)
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Diamond Hill Station is an MTR
MTR
Mass Transit Railway is the rapid transit railway system in Hong Kong. Originally opened in 1979, the system now includes 211.6 km of rail with 155 stations, including 86 railway stations and 69 light rail stops...

 station located in Diamond Hill
Diamond Hill
Diamond Hill is a hill in Kowloon, Hong Kong. The name also refers to the area on or adjacent to the hill. It is surrounded by Ngau Chi Wan, San Po Kong, Wong Tai Sin and Tsz Wan Shan. Its northeast is limited by the ridge. It is principally a residential district.-Etymology:Contrary to its name,...

, Northern Kowloon
Kowloon
Kowloon is an urban area in Hong Kong comprising the Kowloon Peninsula and New Kowloon. It is bordered by the Lei Yue Mun strait in the east, Mei Foo Sun Chuen and Stonecutter's Island in the west, Tate's Cairn and Lion Rock in the north, and Victoria Harbour in the south. It had a population of...

. It is on the Kwun Tong Line. This station's livery
Livery
A livery is a uniform, insignia or symbol adorning, in a non-military context, a person, an object or a vehicle that denotes a relationship between the wearer of the livery and an individual or corporate body. Often, elements of the heraldry relating to the individual or corporate body feature in...

 is dark gray with silver stones symbolising diamond
Diamond
In mineralogy, diamond is an allotrope of carbon, where the carbon atoms are arranged in a variation of the face-centered cubic crystal structure called a diamond lattice. Diamond is less stable than graphite, but the conversion rate from diamond to graphite is negligible at ambient conditions...

s. The station is incorporated into the large Plaza Hollywood
Plaza Hollywood
Plaza Hollywood is one of the largest shopping centres in the Diamond Hill area, New Kowloon, Hong Kong. Featuring four floors surrounding a central atrium, its main advertising scheme involves everything similar to Hollywood. It was developed by the Wharf Holdings.-Facilities:The main...

 development.

Station layout

G
Ground
- Exits
C
Concourse
Concourse Customer service, MTRshops, vending machines
Hang Seng Bank
Hang Seng Bank
Hang Seng Bank Limited is the second largest bank in Hong Kong. It is a listed company but it is majority owned by the HSBC Group via The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation. Hang Seng is also one of the constituent shares of the Hang Seng Index...

, automatic teller machines
P
Platforms
Platform 1 towards Tiu Keng Leng
Island platform
Island platform
An island platform is a station layout arrangement where a single platform is positioned between two tracks within a railway station, tram stop or transitway interchange...

, doors will open on the right
Platform 2 towards Yau Ma Tei


Platforms 1 and 2 share the same island platform. Space was reserved for the platforms of the East Kowloon Line when this station was built in the 1970s. This can be seen behind the advertising panels for each platform. The reserved platforms are rugged rocks/stones which remain untrimmed behind the advertising panels. This station will also be a station on the proposed Sha Tin to Central Link
Sha Tin to Central Link
Shatin to Central Link is a proposed railway line in Hong Kong which will run from Tai Wai Station in Tai Wai to Hung Hom. The original proposal had this line running to Central, but this will now be an extension of the East Rail Line....

 (with two new island platform
Island platform
An island platform is a station layout arrangement where a single platform is positioned between two tracks within a railway station, tram stop or transitway interchange...

s and two new platforms).

Entrances/Exits

  • A1: Lung Poon Street
  • A2: San Po Kong
    San Po Kong
    San Po Kong is an area in New Kowloon in Hong Kong. South of Wong Tai Sin and Diamond Hill, and north of the former Kai Tak International Airport, the area is bounded by Choi Hung Road and Prince Edward Road. San Po Kong is largely industrial and partly residential. Administratively, it belongs...

  • B: Rhythm Garden
    Rhythm Garden
    Rhythm Garden is a Home Ownership Scheme and Private Sector Participation Scheme court in San Po Kong, Wong Tai Sin District, Kowloon, Hong Kong, jointly developed by the Hong Kong Housing Authority and New World Development. Formerly a part of the site of former British Forces Overseas Hong...

  • C1/C2: Plaza Hollywood
    Plaza Hollywood
    Plaza Hollywood is one of the largest shopping centres in the Diamond Hill area, New Kowloon, Hong Kong. Featuring four floors surrounding a central atrium, its main advertising scheme involves everything similar to Hollywood. It was developed by the Wharf Holdings.-Facilities:The main...


Plaza Hollywood Bus Terminus (Exits C1 and C2)

Minibus Routes
To Diamond Hill Cemetery:

To Grand View Garden:

To Hill Top Garden:

To San Po Kong:

To Tsz Wan Shan:

To Tai Kok Tsui

Bus Routes

To Kowloon Station
Kowloon Station
Kowloon Station may refer to:*Kowloon Station, a station on the MTR Tung Chung Line and Airport Express, near West Kowloon Cultural district*Kowloon Station , the south terminus of the British Section of the Kowloon-Canton Railway at Tsim Sha Tsui , southmost of Kowloon, demolished in 1974*Former...

  • 11


To Chevalier Garden via City One Shatin:
  • 84M


To Kam Ying Court via Chevalier Garden & Ma On Shan Town Centre:
  • 85M


To Ma On Shan Town Centre:
  • 85C via Ravana Garden, 286M via Kam Tai Court


To Ravana Garden via Kwong Yuen Estate & City One Shatin:
  • 82X


To Tai Po Central:
  • 74X


To Tai Po Fu Shin Estate:
  • 75X


To Sai Kung:
  • 92


To Clearwater Bay via HKUST:
  • 91


To Po Lam via HKUST & Hang Hau:
  • 91M


To Wong Shek Ferry Pier via Sai Kung:
  • 96R


To Ap Lei Chau(Lei Lok Street via Eastern Cross-Harbour Tunnel and Aberdeen Tunnel):
  • 671

Future development

Diamond Hill Station will become an interchange station on the East-west Line and Kwun Tong Line, after the completion of the Hung Hom to Tai Wai section of the Sha Tin to Central Link
Sha Tin to Central Link
Shatin to Central Link is a proposed railway line in Hong Kong which will run from Tai Wai Station in Tai Wai to Hung Hom. The original proposal had this line running to Central, but this will now be an extension of the East Rail Line....

in 2018. The current station will expand.

Neighbouring stations

Future neighbouring stations

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