Tai Po Railway Station
Tai Po Kau Station was a now-defunct railway station on the Kowloon-Canton Railway in Hong Kong 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.
When the British section of the railway opened in 1910, it was originally named Tai Po Station. On January 1, 1965, it was renamed Tai Po Kau Station. After the station was dismantled, the site was redeveloped into the MTR staff quarters known as Chek Shing Hin.
Opening date: October 1, 1910
Closure date : May 2, 1983
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.
On May 2, 1983, the second phase of the Kowloon-Canton Railway electrification project was completed, and electric train services were extended to Tai Po Market Station. Tai Po Kau Station was decommissioned on the same day.
After its closure, the station building and toilet facilities on the northbound platform were not immediately demolished; instead, the exit to the tracks was simply blocked off with iron railings.
In the 1990s, the station building and platform were finally dismantled and 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.
After the demolition, the station sign from Tai Po Kau Station was relocated to Chek Shing Hin for preservation. However, during Typhoon York’s strike on Hong Kong in 1999, the sign was crushed by a fallen tree and subsequently removed.
The distinction between Tai Po Market railway station and Tai Po railway station.
In the days before electrification. Tai Po had two rail stops. Perhaps the more famous one…was called Tai Po Market railway station and served the centre of the new market town. Tai Po station on the other hand was on a site now occupied by Trackside Villas in Tai Po Kau.
The former exists in two forms:
1) the current MTRC East Rail station that serves the south side of Tai Po, and
2) the old Chinese style station (built in 1913) that closed down when the line was electrified in 1983 and turned into the small Railway Museum.
Tai Po Station, on the other hand, is a former station about a mile south of modern day Tai Po Market.
References
https://digitalrepository.lib.hku.hk/catalog/3b591f76r
https://industrialhistoryhk.org/tai-kau-railway-station-kcr/
http://industrialhistoryhk.org/tai-kau-station-kcr-ferry-pier-transport-hub/
Tai Po Kau railway station - Wikipedia
The defunct Tai Po Kau Railway Station, KCR – The Industrial History of Hong Kong Group
大埔火车站
大埔滘站是香港九广铁路英段上的一个已废止的火车站，位于新界大埔滘。由于其毗邻大埔海及一个服务新界东北地区的码头，大埔滘曾是一个交通枢纽。
该车站采用传统中式建筑风格。
在1910年九广铁路英段通车时，车站最初被命名为“大埔站”。1965年1月1日，车站更名为“大埔滘站”。车站拆除后，原址被重建为港铁员工宿舍“策诚轩”。
**启用日期：**1910年10月1日
**关闭日期：**1983年5月2日
随着该地区道路和公共交通的改善，以及偏远村落人口的减少，车站和码头的重要性迅速下降。1980年代初铁路电气化时，车站被废弃。此时，原本在附近码头运营的两个渡轮航线（前往塔门和东平洲）被迁至大学站附近的马料水码头。
1983年5月2日，九广铁路第二期电气化工程完成，电气化列车服务延伸至大埔墟站，大埔滘站于同日停用。
车站关闭后，北行月台上的站房和厕所设施并未立即拆除，而是用铁栏杆封闭通往轨道的出口。
1990年代，车站建筑和月台最终被拆除，并改建为九广铁路公司员工宿舍，称为“Trackside Villas”，并通过接驳巴士与大埔墟站连接。
车站拆除后，大埔滘站的站牌曾被移至策诚轩保存。然而在1999年台风“约克”袭港期间，站牌被倒下的大树压毁，随后被移除。
大埔墟站与大埔站的区别
在铁路电气化之前，大埔地区有两个火车站。其中较为知名的是“大埔墟站”，服务于新兴市镇的中心。而“大埔站”则位于现今大埔滘的“Trackside Villas”所在地。
前者现有两个形式：
1）现今港铁东铁线的大埔墟站，服务大埔南部；
2）建于1913年的旧中式车站，在1983年电气化时关闭，并改建为小型铁路博物馆。
而“大埔站”则是一个已废止的车站，位于现代大埔墟以南约一英里处。
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