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It was owned and operated by the Kowloon–Canton Railway Corporation (KCRC) until 2007. Rapid transit services, a light rail system, feeder bus routes within Hong Kong, and intercity passenger and freight train services to China on the KCR network, have been operated by the MTR Corporation since 2007.
The Kowloon-Canton Railway Corporation (KCRC; Chinese: 九廣鐵路公司) is a Hong Kong wholly government-owned railway and land asset manager. [1] It was established in 1982 under the Kowloon-Canton Railway Corporation Ordinance for the purposes of operating the Kowloon–Canton Railway (KCR), and to construct and operate other new railways.
Opening in 1910 as the Kowloon–Canton Railway (British Section), the line is the first heavy rail line in Hong Kong. [8] Prior to the MTR–KCR merger in 2007, the line (then known as KCR East Rail) formed part of the Kowloon–Canton Railway (KCR) network and was managed by the Kowloon-Canton Railway Corporation (KCRC).
The East Rail line Metro Cammell EMU (also known as Mid-Life Refurbishment Train, Chinese: 港鐵中期翻新列車; or MLR Train) was a model of electric multiple unit built in 1980–1990 by Metro-Cammell for the original Kowloon–Canton Railway (now the East Rail line) in Hong Kong.
The SP1900 trains started service on the KCR East Rail in 2001; the first train cars were delivered on 22 March 2001, [2] and the first train entered operation on 4 September 2001. [3] Of the 250 cars ordered, 96 cars were assigned to the East Rail line and arranged into eight trainsets of 12 cars each, which operated alongside the existing ...
MTR Light Rail (formerly operated by KCR/KCRC) 1,435 mm (4 ft 8 + 1 ⁄ 2 in) (Standard gauge) 750 V DC: overhead cable: Siemens Trainguard IMU 100: 910 mm (35.8 in) 2650: 2670 5250 mm (with pantograph folded) 5300 mm (nominal and minimum) Guangzhou-Shenzhen-Hong Kong Express Rail Link Hong Kong section: 1,435 mm (4 ft 8 + 1 ⁄ 2 in)
Originally conceived and carried through to the technical design phase as a 12-car system, paralleling the KCRC-operated East Rail line, the West Rail project was re-evaluated by the KCRC in autumn of 1998; the present nine-car capacity (of which trains of eight-cars are currently run) is a result of improved ultimate headway from 120 seconds ...
The MTR, the rapid transit system of Hong Kong, encompasses 10 heavy rail lines and 98 stations as of May 2022. The following list sorts the stations according to their service line. In addition to the 98 metro stations listed on this page, the MTR system also consists of 68 light rail stops and one high-speed rail terminus in the city. [1]