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30-632: Po Lam is named after one of the first roads in Tseung Kwan O, the Po Lam Road , whose name was taken from the Chinese translation of the first name of Barbara B. Whitener (寶琳), Rev. Sterling H. Whitener's wife. Rev. Whitener was a missionary based at the Haven of Hope Tuberculosis Sanatorium (now Haven of Hope Hospital ) at the time. When Po Lam Estate was under planning, it was named "寶林邨", with

60-702: A connection with the Sha Tin to Central Link extension of the North South Corridor (East Rail Line to Admiralty) . Construction is not expected to begin before 2021. Under an earlier proposal, called the "swap scheme", the line would have taken over the section of the Island line from Fortress Hill to Kennedy Town ; with the remaining section east of Tin Hau being transferred to the Tung Chung line. This

90-618: A different second character but pronounced in the same way. The Po Lam MTR station, on the contrary, used "琳". Government documents have used both names, referring to the area as "寶琳" in a brochure issued by the Planning Department, but also using "林" for the Po Lam Sports Centre within Po Lam Estate. Residents generally use both name interchangeably. Same as Hang Hau , Po Lam was developed as part of

120-434: A frequency of 2.5 minutes between Tseung Kwan O and North Point. The Tseung Kwan O line is the first MTR line with no tracks on viaducts . It was the only line with tracks completely in tunnels until the completion of LOHAS Park station, which there are two short sections nearby that are not in tunnels. The stations of Yau Tong , Po Lam and LOHAS Park are at ground level, but are completely shielded to minimise noise to

150-575: A number of public amenities, including the Tseung Kwan O Sports Centre, the Tseung Kwan O Public Swimming Pool and the Tseung Kwan O Public Library, all of which are located close to each other. Also in close proximity to the trio is Po Hong Park, where the annual Lunar New Year Fair takes place. These facilities and the Po Tsui Park, situated next to Po Lam Estate , are all managed by the Leisure and Cultural Services Department . The neighbourhood

180-624: A station serving the East Kowloon neighbourhood of the same name , using the rail tunnel of the Eastern Harbour Crossing . From Yau Tong, the line passes through the Black Hill Tunnels to enter Tseung Kwan O New Town at Tiu Keng Leng . Within Tseung Kwan O new town, the line splits into two branches east of Tseung Kwan O station . One branch reaches Hang Hau and Po Lam stations in the northern part of

210-547: Is Charles Alexander Anderson , Commander British Troops in Southern China who proposed the construction of passage between Customs Pass (now near Fei Ngo Shan Road ) and Devil's Peak to move the troops, which resembles much of the old Anderson Road. The original road was longer than at present. After reaching Lau Tong , present-day Ma Yau Tong, it ran south to western slope of Black Hill and Hai Wan (present-day Chiu Keng Wan Shan ). It further went south to near

240-479: Is a list of the stations on the Tseung Kwan O line. List The Tseung Kwan O line will probably be extended to Tamar station and interchange with an extended Tung Chung line there. This is according to the "interchange scheme" devised for the North Island line , which would also see the line serve stations at Fortress Hill , Causeway Bay North and Exhibition Centre , the latter of which would provide

270-473: Is also home to the Metro City Plaza , claimed to be the largest shopping complex in East Kowloon and which, same as the private housing development of which it is a part, comprises three phases: MCP One (formerly Metro City Plaza Phase 1), MCP Central (formerly Metro City Plaza Phase 2) and MCP Discovery (formerly Metro City Plaza Phase 3). Po Lam Road North and Po Hong Road are two major roadways in

300-445: Is on the ridge surrounding Kowloon , visible from much of urban Hong Kong, but was ultimately deemed to damage the beauty and the fungshui of Victoria Harbour . Planning for a major development of the 40-hectare site (called 'ARQ' or 'ARQS') for around 9400 private and subsidised housing flats serving a residential population of 25,000 is in progress. The development is expected to accept its first residents in 2023–24. The road

330-589: Is one of earliest roads built by British Army after the British got the lease of New Territories from the Qing in 1899. It is unclear after whom the road is named. While some claimed William John Anderson, Controller of Stores in Government Supplies of Hong Kong Government , others believe unlikely as Anderson Road was named by 1924, 14 years before the appointment of the person. Another likely origin

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360-403: Is only provided during rush hour ; during non-peak periods, LOHAS Park is only served by "shuttle trains" that terminate at Tiu Keng Leng , operating at 12-minute intervals. Passengers travelling to and from LOHAS Park during non-peak hours are required to change trains at Tiu Keng Leng or Tseung Kwan O in order to continue their journey. Train headways are as follows: The Tseung Kwan O line

390-707: Is served by the K-Stock and M-Trains . The K-Stock trains were manufactured by a consortium of Hyundai Rotem and Mitsubishi Corporation , and were expected to be quieter and to use energy generated from deceleration. Although tailor-made for the line, the K-Stock trains actually ran on the Kwun Tong line temporarily from launch through April 2010, and the original M-Trains ran on this line instead. The K-Stock trains were finally transferred to this line in April 2010. This

420-818: Is the only rail and subway station in the neighbourhood. In the Railway Development Strategy 2014, the government proposed the East Kowloon line will connect Po Lam station to Diamond Hill station . It is expected to open in 2025. Po Lam Road Anderson Road is a road on the eastern border of the New Territories and New Kowloon in Hong Kong. It starts near the junction of Clear Water Bay Road and New Clear Water Bay Road , above Shun Lee Estate , then continues southeast to Tseng Lan Shue ( 井欄樹 ) and eastward through

450-577: The Anderson Road bus stop. 22°19′37″N 114°14′11″E  /  22.3269°N 114.2363°E  / 22.3269; 114.2363 Tseung Kwan O line The Tseung Kwan O line ( Chinese : 將軍澳綫 ) is one of the ten lines of the MTR system in Hong Kong , indicated by the colour purple. It is currently 12.3 kilometres (7.6 mi) long, taking 15 minutes to travel throughout

480-555: The Hong Kong Executive Council on 20 October 1998. Construction commenced on 24 April 1999 and the line opened on 18 August 2002, at a cost of HK$ 18 billion. The new line took over the cross-harbour segment, via the Eastern Harbour Crossing to North Point station, from the Kwun Tong line . The Kwun Tong line was extended to Yau Tong and Tiu Keng Leng stations to interchange with the new line. The line

510-415: The Tseung Kwan O New Town was conceived. Po Lam is designated Tertiary Planning Units 836 in the 2016 Population By-census. It is home to 88,272 people, where major ethnic groups are Chinese (95.2%), Indonesians (2.3%) and Filipino (1.5%). Most households live in subsidised home ownership housing (such as Home Ownership Scheme and Sandwich Class Housing Scheme projects) and private housing. Po Lam hosts

540-601: The Tseung Kwan O line was approved by the Hong Kong Government in 1985 and under the 1985 plan, a 7 km (4.3 mi) branch line from Lam Tin station to Tseung Kwan O station , consisting of 5 or 6 stations, was to be built beginning in 1992 and to open by the end of 1996. This plan was cancelled by the MTR Corporation in August 1990. MTR re-proposed the line in 1993, and the plan was approved by

570-479: The area of Rennie's Mill , some churches were built along part of the road, which was extended from the southern end of the present-day Anderson Road to the present-day Po Lam Road South ). Until the late 1980s, this road was only used by residents of Rennie's Mill. In the late 1980s, when the first two public housing estates in Po Lam , Tseung Kwan O New Town - Po Lam Estate and Tsui Lam Estate were built, it

600-495: The entire line. The line runs from North Point on the Hong Kong Island to the new town of Tseung Kwan O . It bifurcates east of Tseung Kwan O station into two branches, one northward to Po Lam and one southward to LOHAS Park . The Tseung Kwan O Depot at LOHAS Park is responsible for the maintenance of the line's rolling stock. During the morning peak period, the Tseung Kwan O line uses 15 trains to maintain

630-507: The first phase of the Tseung Kwan O New Town . Its first population intake came in 1988 with the opening of Po Lam Estate . Before 2002, there was no railway access to or from Po Lam. The Tseung Kwan O line , including Po Lam station , opened in August 2002. In addition to the new town area, two villages, Tseung Kwan O Village and Yau Yue Wan Village, are also considered part of Po Lam, although their histories date back to long before

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660-624: The hills above Sau Mau Ping , and finally ends at Po Lam Road ( 寶琳路 ) in Ma Yau Tong . To the east of the road is Tai Sheung Tok hill. From 1964, the hilltop was developed as a large quarry , Anderson Road Quarry ( 安達臣道石礦場 ), highly visible from much of Kowloon and Hong Kong, which supplied construction aggregate to Hong Kong until July 2017, operated by the K.Wah Group , when it was one of only three quarries still operating in Hong Kong, along with those in Shek O and Lam Tei . The quarry site

690-401: The neighbourhood, with most of the developments sandwiched between them. Po Lam Road North is the extension of Po Lam Road, where the area of Po Lam got its name. Po Lam Road opened in 1956 to connect the Haven of Hope Tuberculosis Sanatorium (now Haven of Hope Hospital ) to Tiu Keng Leng and Ma Yau Tong . During the Tseung Kwan O New Town development, Po Lam Road was extended eastward, into

720-858: The new town, and westward, to Sau Mau Ping . The extension within the new town, which starts from Mau Wu Tsai Village and leads into Po Lam, was named Po Lam Road North. The other extension was still called Po Lam Road. The old section from Tiu Keng Leng to Ma Yau Tong was renamed to Po Lam Road South. Public transportation in Po Lam is served by the MTRC , Kowloon Motor Bus (KMB) (NWFB) and Citybus . Citybus operates cross-harbour routes to Central (690) and Siu Sai Wan (694). Citybus also operates routes to Hong Kong International Airport Tung Chung , and Shatin . KMB runs routes to Mei Foo , Tsim Sha Tsui East , Mong Kok and Tsuen Wan , among others. The MTRC only runs Tseung Kwan O line , on which Po Lam MTR station

750-513: The new town, whereas the southward branch connects LOHAS Park station in Area 86. LOHAS Park is a large residential development built above the Tseung Kwan O Depot , where the trains of the line are maintained. Operation of the line is relatively complex because of the split into two branches at Tseung Kwan O. The majority of trains on the line run through from Po Lam to North Point and vice versa. Through service between LOHAS Park and North Point

780-534: The surrounding development. The rest of the line has its tracks located underground. The western terminus of the line is North Point , providing cross-platform interchange with the Island line . However, the next station, Quarry Bay , still interchanges with the Island Line but does not provide such a cross-platform interchange. East of Quarry Bay, the line passes under Victoria Harbour to Yau Tong station ,

810-586: The top of Devil's Peak and ended near Sam Ka Tsun (present-day Sam Ka Tsuen ). This road section later partly overlapped with the Stage 3 of Wilson Trail , and part of the final section to Sam Ka Tsuen is now an access road to the Junk Bay Chinese Permanent Cemetery . The road was described in military materials as "a road suitable for manhandled guns". In 1950s, when the Hong Kong Government sent Kuomintang refugees to

840-505: Was planned to serve the new town of Tseung Kwan O and was first proposed in 1981 as part of the Junk Bay New Town Transport Study . The report proposed four corridors, all of which called for the Kwun Tong line to be extended to Lam Tin station and placed the terminus of the Tseung Kwan O line at the vicinity of Tsui Ping Estate . The construction cost was estimated at HK$ 3 billion. The construction of

870-596: Was rejected as the existing Island line would be interrupted and require an interchange. In the Chief Executive's 2022 Policy Address, it was announced that the Tseung Kwan O line would be extended southwards to Tseung Kwan O Area 137, an 80 hectare plot of land the Development Bureau has identified suitable for the development of 50,000 new housing units. Area 137 is expected to take in new populations in 2030, but there has been no expected timeline for

900-576: Was the only link to Po Lam until the Tseung Kwan O Tunnel was opened in 1990. Nowadays, although Po Lam Road is no longer the main road to Tseung Kwan O, some bus routes from Tseung Kwan O still use Po Lam Road. Only a few stores, farmland, the quarry and warehouses are located beside the road. Haven of Hope Sunnyside School is sited at the Po Lam end of the road. Since the 1996 cancellation of KMB Bus Route 90 ( Tiu Keng Leng <-> Choi Hung ), no public transport routes use Anderson Road. However, buses via Po Lam Road and Clear Water Bay Road include

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