Sunny Bay Station

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Sunny Bay 欣澳

Sunny Bay Station

Line Tung Chung Disneyland Resort Code SUN Service hours 0609/0109 Connections Bus

District Tsuen Wan Area Sunny Bay

Map MTR Website

Opened 1st June 2005 Type of station Ground Level Type of platforms Side (Platform 2) / Island (Platform 1,3) No. of platforms 3 No. of exits 1 No. of escalators 4 No. of lifts 4 No. of shops None

A signpost in Sunny Bay Station, backed by shrubs on the slope behind

Platform 1 (right) and Platform 2 (left); the middle are the tracks for Airport Express and the emergency platforms.

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Sunny Bay (MTR)

Sunny Bay is an MTR station in Yam O (陰澳). 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).

The station is the first MTR station to have automatic platform gates (APG) installed on the edge of the 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 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.

The Airport Express line passes through the center of the station without stopping.

This station features emergency platforms.

[edit] 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.

[edit] Entrance/Exit

• 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. As of 2006, the interchange is solely used by residents of Discovery Bay as a bus route runs from the interchange to Discovery Bay.

[edit] Transport

[edit] Bus Routes

To Discovery Bay:

• DB03R

[edit] Neighbouring stations