Tai Po Kau railway station

Preceding station	KCR			Following station
University towards Kowloon		KCR British section		Tai Po Market towards Lo Wu

Location
Tai Po Kau Location within the current MTR system

Tai Po Kau (Chinese: 大埔滘車站), also signed simply as Tai Po,^{[citation needed][2]} was a railway station on the British section of the Kowloon–Canton Railway in Tai Po Kau, New Territories, Hong Kong. Its location next to Tai Po Hoi and a pier serving the northeast New Territories made Tai Po Kau a transport hub.

The station had traditional 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 (to Tap Mun and Tung Ping Chau) were moved to the Ma Liu Shui Pier near University station.^[3]

In the 1990s, the station structure was removed and replaced with staff quarters of the KCR Corporation. This development is called "Trackside Villas" and is linked to Tai Po Market station by a shuttle bus.^[4]

References

AreasIslandsLandmarksTransport

MTR stations	Tai Po Market Tai Wo Closed Tai Po Kau

Education

Primary/secondary	American School Hong Kong Carmel Pak U Secondary School Hong Kong Japanese School International School Law Ting Pong Secondary School Malvern College Hong Kong NTHYK Tai Po District Secondary School Norwegian International School Tai Po Sam Yuk Secondary School
Higher education	Education University of Hong Kong Chinese University of Hong Kong (portion)

Culture