Tsuen Wan station
MTR metro station
Tsuen Wan (Chinese: 荃灣; Cantonese Yale: chyùhnwāan) is an MTR station on the Tsuen Wan line. It is the only station on the Tsuen Wan line at ground level. It is located in the northern central part of Tsuen Wan New Town, New Territories West. The preceding station is Tai Wo Hau. Its livery is dark red.
History
The station opened as part of the line opening on 10 May 1982. A commemorative plaque in the station concourse, near exit A, was unveiled by Acting Governor Sir Philip Haddon-Cave. The station was designed as an intermediate station with two side platforms, with trains terminating at Tsuen Wan West, further northwest near Tsuen King Garden, different from the present Tuen Ma line Tsuen Wan West station. It was built by Dragages, along with the line's depot.
The area around the proposed terminus had a poor development record and it was decided to not build a station there, causing the station to use different platforms for loading and unloading.
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Maps, plans, fabric surveys and administrative records can establish how the site’s name, extent and function changed over time. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 21, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q838783. Authority coordinates are 22.374, 114.118. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1982.
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