Ngau Tau Kok station

MTR station in Kowloon, Hong Kong

Ngau Tau Kok

牛頭角

MTR rapid transit station

Ngau Tau Kok Station (2021)

Chinese name

Traditional Chinese

牛頭角

Simplified Chinese

牛头角

Jyutping

Ngau4tau4gok3

Hanyu Pinyin

Niútóujiǎo

Literal meaning

Cow Head's Corner

Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyin	Niútóujiǎo
Yue: Cantonese
Yale Romanization	Ngàutàugok
IPA	[ŋɐu˩tʰɐu˩kɔːk̚˧]
Jyutping	Ngau4tau4gok3

General information

Location

Between Kwun Tong Road and Ngau Tau Kok Road, Ngau Tau Kok
Kwun Tong District, Hong Kong

Coordinates

Bus, minibus

Construction

Structure type

Elevated

Platform levels

Accessible

Yes

Other information

Station code

NTK

History

Opened

1 October 1979; 44 years ago (1979-10-01)

Electrified

1,500 V DC (Overhead line)

Services

Preceding station	MTR			Following station
Kowloon Bay towards Whampoa		Kwun Tong line		Kwun Tong towards Tiu Keng Leng

Track layout

Legend

					to Kowloon Bay

					to Kowloon Bay Depot






			1
			2



					to Kwun Tong

Location
Ngau Tau Kok Location within the MTR system

Ngau Tau Kok (Chinese: 牛頭角; Cantonese Yale: Ngàutàugok) is a station on the Hong Kong MTR Kwun Tong line. It is located in the Ngau Tau Kok area of Kowloon East, between Kwun Tong and Kowloon Bay stations. It was among the earliest stations in the network, becoming operational on 1 October 1979.

Ngau Tau Kok is one of three stations to be located above ground on the line, the others being Kwun Tong and Kowloon Bay. The majority of passengers use Ngau Tau Kok station to commute.

Due to difficulties in installing platform screen doors (PSDs) in above ground stations, the MTR decided not to install PSDs in this station, instead installing automatic platform gates (APGs) on the station's platforms in 2011.

History

Contract 211 consisting the construction of the stations and adjacent line sections was awarded to Hip Hing Construction Limited.

Ngau Tau Kok station opened when the Kwun Tong line opened on 1 October 1979.

Station layout

Platforms 1 and 2 share the same island platform, and the east parts are curved, so the gap between platform and train is large.

U1 Platforms	Platform 1	→ Kwun Tong line towards Tiu Keng Leng (Kwun Tong) →
	Island platform, doors will open on the right
	Platform 2	← Kwun Tong line towards Whampoa (Kowloon Bay)
G	Concourse	Exits, customer service, MTRshops
		Vending machines, automatic teller machines
-	Subway	Subway to Garden Estate and Kwun Tong industrial area

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Gallery

Station Platforms (March 2021)
Concourse, near Exit A (2020)
Paid area of the concourse (2020)
Exterior of the station (2021)
Both platforms of Ngau Tau Kok station in March 2014
Ngau Tau Kok station platform 1 in March 2014
Ngau Tau Kok station in January 2008, before platform gates were installed.

Entrances/exits

A: Millennium City
B1: Lotus Tower
B2: Garden Estate
B3: Ngau Tau Kok Road
B4: Kwun Tong Road
B5: How Ming Street
B6: Lai Yip Street^[2]

References

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Ngau Tau Kok Station.

^ "Ngau Tau Kok Station layout" (PDF). MTR Corporation. Retrieved 25 July 2014.
^ "Ngau Tau Kok Station street map" (PDF). MTR Corporation. Retrieved 25 July 2014.