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Tai Po Kau 大埔滘 | |||||||||||
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| KCR station | |||||||||||
 The station as seen in 1968 | |||||||||||
| General information | |||||||||||
| Location | Tai Po Railway Pier,[1]Tai Po Road — Tai Po Kau,Tai Po Kau Tai Po District, Hong Kong | ||||||||||
| Coordinates | 22°26′27″N114°10′58″E / 22.44083°N 114.18278°E /22.44083; 114.18278 | ||||||||||
| Owned by | Kowloon-Canton Railway Corporation | ||||||||||
| Operated by | Kowloon-Canton Railway Corporation | ||||||||||
| Line(s) | Kowloon–Canton Railway (British Section) | ||||||||||
| Platforms | 2 (side platforms) | ||||||||||
| Tracks | 2 | ||||||||||
| Connections | Bus, public light bus,kai-to | ||||||||||
| Construction | |||||||||||
| Structure type | At-grade | ||||||||||
| Platform levels | 1 | ||||||||||
| History | |||||||||||
| Opened | 1 October 1910; 114 years ago (1910-10-01) | ||||||||||
| Closed | 2 May 1983; 42 years ago (1983-05-02) | ||||||||||
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Tai Po Kau (Chinese:大埔滘車站), also signed simply asTai Po,[citation needed][2] was arailway station on theBritish section of theKowloon–Canton Railway inTai Po Kau,New Territories, Hong Kong. Its location next toTai Po Hoi and a pier serving the northeast New Territories made Tai Po Kau a transport hub.
The station hadtraditional Chinese architecture.[citation needed][2]
As roads and public transport were improved in the area and as the remote villages depopulated, the importance of the station and the pier declined quickly. The station was abandoned when the railway was electrified in the early 1980s. At this time, two ferry routes serving the adjacent pier (toTap Mun andTung Ping Chau) were moved to theMa Liu Shui Pier nearUniversity station.[3]
In the 1990s, the station structure was removed and replaced with staff quarters of theKCR Corporation. This development is called "Trackside Villas" and is linked toTai Po Market station by a shuttle bus.[4]
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