Kwai Hing (MTR)
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Kwai Hing station is an elevated railway station on the Tsuen Wan Line of Hong Kong
Hong Kong
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 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...

 system. It is named after the nearest public housing
Public housing
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 estate
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, and is between Kwai Fong
Kwai Fong (MTR)
Kwai Fong station is an elevated railway station on Tsuen Wan Line of Hong Kong MTR, opened in 1982. It is located between Lai King and Kwai Hing stations....

 and Tai Wo Hau
Tai Wo Hau (MTR)
Tai Wo Hau is an MTR station between Tsuen Wan and Kwai Hing stations on the Tsuen Wan Line. It serves the areas of Kwai Yin Court and Tai Wo Hau Estate in the Kwai Tsing District, and some resited villages in the Tsuen Wan District of Hong Kong...

 Stations.

Opened in 1982, it forced most direct bus
Bus
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 services into Kowloon
Kowloon
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 be cancelled. Nevertheless, the station provided convenient transport
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 service to local residents, also attracting some local shuttle
Public transport
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 services with nearby settlements and factories.

Below the platforms
Railway platform
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 is a small transport interchange. This interchange is saturated with traffic, due to traffic diverted from the increasingly crowded Kwai Fong Station.

Station layout

P
Platforms
Side platform
Side platform
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, doors will open on the left
Platform 1 towards Tsuen Wan
Tsuen Wan (MTR)
Tsuen Wan is the northern terminus of the MTR Tsuen Wan Line in Hong Kong. It is the only station on the line that is at ground level. It is located at the northern central part of Tsuen Wan New Town, and its next station is Tai Wo Hau....

Platform 2 towards Central
Central (MTR)
Central station is an MTR station located in the Central area of Hong Kong Island. The station's livery is firebrick red, except for the station's Tsuen Wan Line platform where its livery is dark brown...

Side platform
Side platform
A Side platform is a platform positioned to the side of a pair of tracks at a railway station, a tram stop or a transitway. A pair of side platforms are often provided on a dual track line with a single side platform being sufficient for a single track line...

, doors will open on the left
C
Concourse
(Ground)
Concourse Exits, transport interchange
Customer services, MTRshops
Hang Seng Bank
Hang Seng Bank
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, vending machines, automatic teller machines


The tracks of platform 1 and 2 are located right next to each other right in the middle of the station. Passengers have to ride different escalators up according to the platform they want to go to.

Kwai Hing Station is one of the three elevated stations in the Tsuen Wan line. (The other ones are Lai King and Kwai Fong Stations), and the structure of Kwai Hing Station is very similar to Kwai Fong Station.

Entrances/Exits

  • A: Kwai Hing Road, Millennium Trade Center, Kwai Chung Center, Kwai Chun Court
  • B: Transport Interchange, Kwai Hing Govt Office Bldg
  • C: Tai Wo Hau Road
  • D: New Kwai Hing Gardens
  • E: Kwai Ching Road Crossbridge

Kwai Hing MTR Station Transport Interchange (Exit B)

Minibus Routes
  • 89 [Kwai Shing West Estate <> Tsuen Wan Ho Pui Street]
  • 89A [Kwai Hing MTR Station <> Tsuen Wan Ho Pui Street]
  • 89B [Kwai Shing West Estate <> Tsuen Wan Skyline Plaza]
  • 94 [Kwai Shing - Shek Wai Kok Circular]
  • 94A [Kwai Shing <> Lei Muk Shue]


Bus Routes terminating at Kwai Hing Station Transport Interchange
  • 37M [Kwai Hing MTR Station > Kwai Shing Circular]
  • 44M special departures [Cheung On > Kwai Hing MTR Station via Tsing Yi North Bridge]
  • 61M special departures [Kwai Hing MTR Station > Yau Oi (South)]


Bus Routes that have a stop at Kwai Hing MTR Station Transport Interchange
  • 30 [Allway Gardens <> Cheung Sha Wan]
  • 38 [Kwai Shing East <> Ping Tin]
  • 43 [Cheung Hong <> Tsuen Wan West Station]
  • 43A [Cheung Wang <> Shek Lei]
  • 40X [Wu Kai Sha Station <> Kwai Chung Estate]
  • 44M [Cheung On <> Kwai Chung Estate]
  • 68A [Tsing Yi AR Station <> Long Ping Estate]
  • A31 [Airport <> Tsuen Wan Discovery Park]
  • N31 [Airport <> Tsuen Wan Discovery Park]

Neighbouring stations

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