Austin station was built as part of the
Kowloon Southern Link project, built to connect the West Rail line and .
KCR Corporation originally planned two stations along the new section of line: Austin and
Canton Road stations. The latter station was cancelled due to failed negotiations with private landowners. As a result, Austin was the only new station built as part of the Kowloon Southern Link scheme. It is also the first KCR-owned station to be opened after the MTR took over operations of the KCR network. During the planning and early construction stages, the station was called "West Kowloon station" (). The construction contract KDB200 (West Kowloon Station and Tunnels – Jordan Road to East Tsim Sha Tsui Station) was awarded to the Leighton-Balfour Beatty-Kumagai-John Holland Joint Venture (renamed to "Link 200 Joint Venture" on 9 August 2005) for an estimated contract sum of
HK$2.018 billion. This station is part of this contract. Construction was finished in July 2009 and the station opened on 16 August that year. It was named after
Austin Road. It was located adjacent to the Canton Road Government Offices until that structure was demolished in 2011. An MTR residential property development, The Austin, was subsequently constructed on the site of the former government offices. A direct connection between Austin station and the
West Kowloon Terminus was opened on 23 September 2018. A new underground pedestrian link between Austin station and Xiqu Centre, a Chinese opera house, was opened on 21 March 2021. On 27 June 2021, the officially merged with the (which was already extended into the
Tuen Ma line Phase 1 at the time) in
East Kowloon to form the new , as part of the
Shatin to Central link project. Hence, Austin was included in the project and is now an intermediate station on the Tuen Ma line. ==Station layout==