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Wikipedia has a good history of the site at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_University_of_Hong_Kong#History
It says that the first college buildings here were those of Chung Chi College, which moved to Ma Liu Shui in 1956.
Later, the new Chinese University was inaugurated in October 1963. Following that, development of the University's campus began, incorporating the existing Chung Chi College.
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1960
In the early 1960s, it looked like this. The Ma Liu Shui train station was already there.
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In 1946, before the ma liu shui station was built. The station was only constructed around 1955-1956 when Chung Chi college moved there. The college was founded by representatives of Protestant Churches in Hong Kong in 1951. It was the only college with religious background among the 3 colleges of the Chinese University with financial support from religious organizations in the US and UK . After the Communist takeover in 1949, all Christian universities in China had to close down. Many of their members fled to Hong Kong.
A brief history of the college can be found here:
https://en-academic.com/dic.nsf/enwiki/3328350
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1955 picture of Ma Liu Shui. Train station seems mostly completed. It should be near the end of 1955 according to news reports. The person was the president of Chung Chi College.
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News report 1956-1-28 about the constuction of campus and planned move of Chung Chi college to Ma Liu Shiu in the end of 1956 and the completion of the train station there.
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According to a news report of 香港工商日報, 1956-09-24 at https://mmis.hkpl.gov.hk/
1956-09-24 is the exact date when the station officially opened.
1956-10-01 is the date when Chung Chi college started the fall term at the new campus there shortly after the opening of station.
(華僑日報, 1956-09-24 Wah Kiu Yat Po at https://mmis.hkpl.gov.hk/)
1971
CU campus on 1971-6-14 almost completed. Students from the 3 colleges of the university were ready to move in. According to United college alumni magazine, United college first opened their student dormitory in 1971-12. Other departments started to move in from 1972-1-3. The last to move in was the science faculty. They moved in 1972-4 from their old campus at Caine Lane.The other colleges also moved in around the same time. Of course Chung Chi College had been there since 1956. They didn't have to move very far if at all.
https://www.uc.cuhk.edu.hk/publication/september-2020-issue-73/
https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%B4%87%E5%9F%BA%E5%AD%B8%E9%99%A2
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1966
How it looked like in 1966
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1973
how it looked like in 1973
ma liu shui train station 1960s
ma liu shui train station in the1960s before it was renamed university station
new asia college 1949
Chinese university had 3 foundation colleges at the time of its establishment in 1963. One of them, the New Asia College, had the longest history. It started in 1949 by a group of university academics fleeing from the mainland. It had a very humble beginning. It began as the Asia Evening College of Arts and Commerce, and three classrooms were rented for evening classes at Wah Nam Middle School 4th floor (華南中學) on 22-36 Wai Ching Street (偉晴街 22-36, now Wai Ching court 偉晴閣 ). See photo above.
It was renamed on 1950-3 as New Asia College when it moved to Kweilin street 61-65 3rd and 4th floors (above photo). It is now a little garden called New Asia College memorial garden. A plaque in the garden (photo below) with the words "new asia old location".
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A 2009 google map photo of the former New Asia college location at Kweilin street. It was demolished around 2010.
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In 1956, with financial support from the Ford Foundation, it moved to the new campus on Farm road (picture below). In 1973, it moved to Shatin to join the other colleges.
http://www.na.cuhk.edu.hk/zh-hk/aboutnewasia-zhhk/history-zhhk.aspx
Today the campus on farm road has become the New Asia middle school:
Founding of the university
The founding ceremony of the university took place on Oct 17 1963 in the music hall of City Hall. It was opened by Governor Robert Black. The picture shows the governor leaving after the ceremony with the chairman of university board Cho-Yiu Kwan.
News report about the ceremony