[1] The new station was designed by Arthur Benison Hubback and built on reclaimed land overlooking the harbour.

It was designed in a Edwardian Classical Revival style, and built had a steel frame with red brick cladding as well as white granite columns, architraves and pediments.

The Heritage Society escalated lobbying effort, and petitioned Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II[7] with a file containing some 15,000 signatures in February 1978, hoping for royal intervention.

Six pillars of the station building were moved to the Urban Council Centenary Garden in Tsim Sha Tsui East.

After decades at other locations, including the East Rail depot at Ho Tung Lau, the clock tower's bell was returned to its original home in September 2010.