Exhibition Centre station (MTR)

Exhibition Centre (Chinese: 會展) is an MTR interchange station currently under construction on the East Rail line and the proposed North Island line. It will be an underground station located underneath the existing Wan Chai North public transport interchange, Harbour Road Sports Centre and Wan Chai Swimming Pool. It will serve the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre at Wan Chai North, Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong. Its location is within walking distance to Wan Chai station of the Island line. The station is set to be completed in 2021 or 2022.[1]

Exhibition Centre 會展
Future MTR rapid transit station
Construction in February 2016
Chinese name
Traditional Chinese	會展
Simplified Chinese	会展
Transcriptions Standard Mandarin Hanyu Pinyin Huìzhǎn Yue: Cantonese Yale Romanization wui5 jin2 Jyutping wui5 zin2
General information
Location	Intersection of Fleming Road and Convention Avenue, Wan Chai Wan Chai District, Hong Kong
Coordinates	22°16′54″N 114°10′31″E
Owned by	KCR Corporation (East Rail line); MTR Corporation (Tseung Kwan O line)
Operated by	MTR Corporation
Line(s)	East Rail line      Tseung Kwan O line
Platforms	2 (2 side platforms)
Tracks	2
Construction
Structure type	Underground
Other information
Station code	EXH
History
Opening	2021 (2021) (East Rail line)
Previous names	Exhibition
Services
Preceding station MTR Following station Future (Sha Tin to Central Link) Admiralty Terminus East Rail line Sha Tin to Central Link Hung Hom towards Lo Wu or Lok Ma Chau Planned (North Island Line extension) Tamar Terminus Tseung Kwan O line North Island line Causeway Bay North towards Po Lam or LOHAS Park
Location
Exhibition Centre Location within the MTR system

Description

The station serves the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre, the Wan Chai Sports Ground, and various nearby office towers in Wan Chai North.

It will be an interchange station between the North Island Line (the extension of Tseung Kwan O Line) and the North South Corridor of the Sha Tin-Central Link, offering cross-platform interchange between the two lines. Initially, only the North South Corridor platforms will be open, as the North Island Line is still under planning.

The station is designed by Farrells. In January 2015, MTR awarded a contract to Leighton in a joint venture with China State Construction to construct the station and western approach tunnel. The Wan Chai Bus Terminus, where the station will be built, was relocated to newly reclaimed land and the station groundbreaking took place on the former bus station site on 20 April 2015.

The station will be built on the site of the existing Harbour Road Sports Centre, Wan Chai Swimming Pool, and a bus terminus, which must all be demolished and reprovisioned elsewhere before construction shall begin. The swimming pool and sports centre are being rebuilt on the car park site immediately to the south. The bus terminus has temporarily relocated to the reclamation area near the new Wan Chai Ferry Pier.[2]

On top of the station, a Convention Centre will be built as an expansion of the nearby Convention and Exhibition Centre. The enabling works for this topside development are included during the station construction.[3]

Entrances/Exits

• A: Wan Chai North Public Transport Interchange
• B: Harbour Road Sports Centre[4]

History

Renaming

This station was formerly named Exhibition Station, but in late 2017 was renamed to Exhibition Centre Station, while the Chinese name remained the same.[5]

WWII bombs discovery

On 27 and 31 of January 2018, two American-made AN-M65 bombs, believed to be dropped during World War Two weighing about 450 kg (990 lb) each, were discovered by workers at its construction site. The construction was suspended for bomb disposal work. Nearly 5000 people in the surrounding area are evacuated. Each operation took nearly 24 hours for preparation and disposal. No injuries were reported.[6]

See also

• East Rail Line
• Sha Tin to Central Link

References

1. "政府全資374億建沙中線(A4)". Ming Pao. 12 March 2008.
2. "Hong Kong Island Section Newsletter" (PDF). MTR Corporation. May 2015.
3. Transport and Housing Bureau (June 2016). "Progress Update of the Construction of the Shatin to Central Link (As at 31 March 2016)" (PDF). Legislative Council Panel on Transport Subcommittee on Matters Relating to Railways. p. 8. Retrieved 4 November 2016. To allow flexibility for the construction of convention facilities above Exhibition Station, a certain part of the enabling works for the topside development would be incorporated into the underground structure of Exhibition Station.
4. MTR Corporation (November 2011). "Shatin to Central Link - Hung Hom to Admiralty Section Environmental Impart Assessment". Retrieved 25 July 2012.
5. "Progress Update of the Construction of the Shatin to Central Link" (PDF). Transport and Housing Bureau. November 2017. p. Annex 2. Retrieved 28 November 2017. [...]as well as the additional cost for the late handover of construction sites at Exhibition Centre Station (formerly known as Exhibition Station), the previously unbudgeted foundation works for top-side development at Exhibition Centre Station and other factors such as the shortage of labour in the construction sector. [...]
6. Ng, Naomi; Kao, Ernest (1 February 2018). "Hong Kong police disarm second 450kg wartime bomb after 'dirty, difficult and dangerous' operation".

• This article draws some information from the corresponding article in Chinese Wikipedia.