Siu Sai Wan Extension was a proposed extension of the

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Siu Sai Wan Siu Sai Wan () is a residential area in the northeastern part of Hong Kong Island in Hong Kong. It is located in the eastern part of Chai Wan, and is administratively under the Eastern District. The population was 59,729 in June 2011. Loca ...

on the eastern end of the Hong Kong Island. A plan was revealed in 2001 after many calls from the

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(later District Council) since 1991. Although the population size in Siu Sai Wan is large enough to support a station, the plan was later shelved, despite continued calls from the

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Proposals

In February 2013 review and update of the Railway Development Strategy 2000, Highway Departments proposed three schemes to extend the current railway network to Siu Sai Wan area, either by extending after the current Chai Wan terminus, branching off from

Heng Fa Chuen station Heng Fa Chuen is a station on the of the MTR in Hong Kong. The station is located in the heart of the Heng Fa Chuen housing development. The livery of the station is orange-red. It is the only station on the line that is on the ground leve ...

or constructing a new medium capacity railway system from Heng Fa Chuen.

Extension

An extension would have extended the Island line from the current south-eastern terminus

Chai Wan station Chai Wan () is the eastern terminus of the MTR on Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong. It is the only station on the Island line that is elevated. The station is located at the junction of Chai Wan Road and Island Eastern Corridor, and it serves Si ...

to Siu Sai Wan. The alignment of the existing Island line, however, made it difficult to extend the line from the terminus Chai Wan station. Such an extension would have required a U-shaped tunnel passing through

Pottinger Peak Pottinger Peak () is a mountain on the eastern side of Hong Kong Island. It is located south of Chai Wan and Siu Sai Wan and north of Big Wave Bay. Initially known as Ma Tong Peak, it was renamed Pottinger Peak after Henry Pottinger, the first G ...

. Certain nearby buildings would have needed to be demolished to make space for the extension.

Bifurcation

An alternative plan was to build a Y-shaped branch from

. A bifurcation would require reclamation of the Chai Wan Cargo Handling Basin. However, because of the spur line, some trains would not stop at Chai Wan station, resulting in a lower train frequency.

Feeder

Siu Sai Wan residents using this feeder line would have needed to interchange at

to the

. This is similar to other road-based transport systems. While reclamation might not be required, private land and land for recreational purposes will need to be used for the construction of the feeder line. As the feeder line was planned to have run on a

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, there were concerns on the visual and noise impacts to nearby buildings.

References

{{coord missing, Hong Kong MTR stations on Hong Kong Island Siu Sai Wan Proposed railway stations in Hong Kong