Causeway Bay North or Victoria Park () is a proposed station of the MTR

rapid transit Rapid transit or mass rapid transit (MRT), also known as heavy rail or metro, is a type of high-capacity public transport generally found in urban areas. A rapid transit system that primarily or traditionally runs below the surface may be c ...

network in Hong Kong, which would be situated at the northern part of

Causeway Bay Causeway Bay is list of buildings, sites and areas in Hong Kong, an area and Victoria Park, Hong Kong, a bay on Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong, straddling the border of the Eastern District, Hong Kong, Eastern and the Wan Chai District, Wan Chai ...

to the northwest of

Victoria Park Victoria Park may refer to: Places Australia * Victoria Park Nature Reserve, a protected area in Northern Rivers region, New South Wales * Victoria Park, Adelaide, a park and racecourse * Victoria Park, Brisbane, a public park and former golf ...

Hong Kong Island Hong Kong Island is an Islands and peninsulas of Hong Kong, island in the southern part of Hong Kong. Known colloquially and on road signs simply as Hong Kong, the island has a population of 1,289,500 and its population density is 16,390/km ...

. The station is part of the

North Island line The North Island line is a proposal to provide rapid transit service for the area between the existing MTR Island line and the northern coast of Hong Kong Island in order to relieve the already congested Island line. Originally, according to th ...

(NIL) proposal,沙田至中環線－立法會鐵路事宜小組委員會會議簡報
KCR, 16 February 2004 (in Chinese). Retrieved 17 August 2014. which includes the extension of the from its present terminus to

Tamar station Tamar () is a station on MTR's proposed North Island line (NIL) on the north shore of Hong Kong Island. It will be located on the former site of HMS ''Tamar'' on Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong. Tamar station will be the eastern terminus of t ...

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. The KCRC also proposed adding Causeway Bay North station as part of the

Sha Tin to Central Link The Sha Tin to Central Link (abbreviated SCL; ) is an extension of the MTR rapid transit network. It is divided into two sections. The first section, named "Tuen Ma line (Phase 1)”, runs from Tai Wai station in the New Territories to Hung ...

(SCL), to be situated between and . However, a major drawback was that road traffic would be severely impacted, as this would involve closing Gloucester Road for 5 years. Eventually, this station was eliminated from the SCL plan altogether after the

MTR–KCR merger Two Hong Kong railway companies merged operations in 2007: the Kowloon-Canton Railway (KCR) and the Mass Transit Railway (MTR). Background There had already been some discussion of merging the KCRC itself, which was also government-owned, ...

, and will only be part of the NIL if it is constructed. In 2013, the name "Causeway Bay North" was mentioned in the Review and Update of the Railway Development Strategy 2000 as an intermediate station on the North Island line, instead of "Victoria Park".

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*This article draws some information from the corresponding article in Chinese Wikipedia.

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Victoria Park interchange station
MTR stations on Hong Kong Island Proposed railway stations in Hong Kong Causeway Bay {{MTR-stub

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