Two MTR stations were hit by power cuts on Wednesday afternoon, hours after a wider outage on Hong Kong Island.

The railway company said the two outages were unrelated to the overnight blackout on Hong Kong Island, and stressed that train services were not affected.

The MTR Corporation said both power cuts started at around noon, with the outage at Kowloon Station ending at 1:25pm and the one at Hong Kong Station being fixed before 3pm.

The company said the outages affected electricity supply to shops, elevators and air conditioning at the stations.

It said it's investigating the cause of the two incidents.

At Hong Kong Station, at least a dozen shops were plunged into darkness.

“We couldn’t open on time at noon and could only start doing business again at around 3pm. We lost quite a lot of money," said a health food shop worker surnamed Mak.

She complained that she received no useful information from station officials about what was going on.

“I asked them how long it would take them to fix the power, but they said they didn't know and told me to just wait. I then waited for over an hour and nothing happened.”