History
In construction stages of this station, the station was named West Kowloon Station (Chinese: 西九龍站).
As this station was proposed as the terminus of the unbuilt East Kowloon Line, there is a reserved confined space under the Tung Chung Line platform. This space is not used because the alignment was changed and the Kowloon Point (to the south-east of the station) Reclamation Scheme was shelved.
Apart from this station, people can also walk to Austin Station to take the West Rail Line trains. In the future, when the Guangzhou-Shenzhen-Hong Kong Express Rail Link completes, passengers will be able to walk to the West Kowloon Terminus, the terminus of the rail link, to take the rail link.
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