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Hong Kong’s MTR renames new station to mark Song dynasty link
Station on future Sha Tin-Central link renamed Sung Wong Toi, as To Kwa Wan moves further down the track
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A station on an under-construction rail link in Hong Kong has been renamed to mark the area’s role as a safe haven for the last two emperors of the Song dynasty more than 700 years ago, it was announced on Monday.
What had been known as To Kwa Wan station will now be known as Sung Wong Toi station. A nearby station on the future Sha Tin-Central line – which had been dubbed Ma Tau Wai – will take the name To Kwa Wan instead.
The HK$79.8 billion project links Tai Wai, east Kowloon and Admiralty. The stations’ former names had been used since a public consultation for the project in 2008.
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Sung Wong Toi station will take its name from a local landmark not far from the city’s old Kai Tak airport.
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The Sung Wong Toi boulder, literally the “Terrace of the Song emperors”, stands as a memorial to the last two emperors of the Song dynasty, who fled from Fuzhou to what is now Hong Kong to escape invading Mongol troops in 1277.
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