Sunny Bay station

Sunny Bay (Chinese: 欣澳; Cantonese Yale: Yān ou) is an MTR station in Yam O. It is between Tung Chung and Tsing Yi stations. The station is an interchange station between the Tung Chung Line and the Disneyland Resort Line to Hong Kong Disneyland. The station was originally to be named Yam O (陰澳). Yam O was not used probably because of its ominous connotations (Cantonese Yam is more commonly known to English speakers as Mandarin yin, which means darkness or a negative quality. Yam O is yin since it is at the north side of a mountain).

Sunny Bay 欣澳
MTR rapid transit station
Disneyland Resort Line platform in 2005
Chinese name
Chinese	欣澳
Cantonese Yale	Yān ou
Literal meaning	Glad Bay
Transcriptions Standard Mandarin Hanyu Pinyin Xīn'ào Yue: Cantonese Yale Romanization Yān ou Jyutping Jan1 ou3
General information
Location	Sunny Bay Road, Yam O, Lantau Island Tsuen Wan District, Hong Kong
Coordinates	22°19′54″N 114°01′44″E
Operated by	MTR Corporation
Line(s)	Tung Chung line      Disneyland Resort line
Platforms	3 (1 island platform and 1 side platform)
Connections	Bus
Construction
Structure type	At-grade
Platform levels	1
Disabled access	Yes
Other information
Station code	SUN
History
Opened	1 June 2005 (2005-06) (Tung Chung Line) 1 August 2005 (2005-08) (Disneyland Resort Line)
Services
Preceding station MTR Following station Tsing Yi towards Hong Kong Tung Chung line Tung Chung Terminus Terminus Disneyland Resort line Disneyland Resort Terminus      Airport Express does not stop here Proposed Tsing Yi towards Tamar Tung Chung line Tung Chung East towards Tung Chung West
Track layout to Tsing Yi to Disneyland Resort Bidirectional track 2 3 1 to Tung Chung or Airport
Location
Sunny Bay Location within the MTR system

The station was the first MTR station to have automatic platform gates (APG) installed on the edge of its platforms. These gates range from ​¹⁄₂ to ​³⁄₄ the height of the platform screen doors found in other MTR stations. In line with ground level and above-ground MTR stations, Sunny Bay and Disneyland Resort Station are not air conditioned, and rely on their open architecture to keep the temperature low.

Services to the station commenced on 1 June 2005. The transfer facilities to the Disneyland Resort Line opened on 1 August 2005. The livery of the station is slate grey. Platforms 1 (Tung Chung Line towards Tung Chung) and 3 (Disneyland Resort Line) are located opposite to each other to allow easy interchange of trains for passengers travelling from the urban areas. Architecture firm Aedas was the architect for the Disneyland Resort Line and the architect for the Sunny Bay and Disneyland Resort Stations.[1]

The Airport Express passes through the centre of the station without stopping. This station features emergency platforms for the Airport Express.

History

On 22 June 1998, Tung Chung line opened. Airport Express opened two weeks later on 6 July. However, Sunny Bay station has not built at the time.

On 1 June 2005, in order to prepare for the opening of the Hong Kong Disneyland Resort, Sunny Bay station was opened initially for the staff of the resort. Two months later, 1 August 2005, Disneyland Resort Line also opened to the public.

Station layout

Passengers travelling from Hong Kong can disembark and board Disneyland Resort trains departing from the opposite platform. Passengers returning from Disneyland Resort must cross a footbridge to reach platform 2 to board Tung Chung Line trains heading towards Hong Kong. The exit gates are located on the same level and on the same side of the rail tracks as Platform 2.[2]

U1	Footbridge	Footbridge between currently-in-use platforms
G	Concourse	Exit, transport interchange
		Customer services, automatic teller machines
L1 Platforms	Side platform, doors will open on the left
	Platform 2	→      Tung Chung line towards Hong Kong (Tsing Yi) →
	Island platform, not in service, used for emergencies only
	Airport Express	→      Airport Express does not stop here →
	Airport Express	←      Airport Express does not stop here
	Island platform, not in service, used for emergencies only
	Platform 1	←      Tung Chung line towards Tung Chung (Terminus) →
	Island platform, doors will open on the left for Tung Chung Line, right for Disneyland Resort Line
	Platform 3	→      Disneyland Resort line towards Disneyland Resort (Terminus) →

[2]

Entrance/exit

Platform

• A: Transport interchange

Situated in reclaimed land near Yam O, the area is uninhabited and the sole exit leads to an emergency car park and transport interchange.[3] As of 2005, the interchange is solely used by residents of Discovery Bay as the only bus routes run from the interchange to Discovery Bay, and as of late 2018, local passengers use this station in order to change for border route B5 (Operated By Citybus) in order to change for buses to Macau and Zhuhai.

Public transport interchange

Bus routes

To Discovery Bay:[3]

• DB03R
• DB03P

To Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macau Bridge:

• B5

See also

• Rail transport in Walt Disney Parks and Resorts

References

1. "HKIA (Merit), Green Building Award". HKTDC Research.
2. "Sunny Bay Station layout" (PDF). MTR Corporation. Retrieved 5 March 2015.
3. "Sunny Bay Station street map" (PDF). MTR Corporation. Retrieved 5 March 2015.