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6 unusual facts about MTR


Canada Water station

The station, which was the first to be designed in the Jubilee Line Extension project, has been described by the Hong Kong MTR's chief architect Roland Paoletti as "the only station on the JLE that has been built to the strict engineering economies of the specification of a Hong Kong interchange station."

Early 2012 Hong Kong protests

In January 2012, Ken Wai, a Hong Kong passenger, asked a Mainland Chinese woman and her child to stop eating on an MTR subway in Mandarin Chinese on a train bound for Mong Kok East Station.

North East MRT Line

This kind of design can be seen in other subway stations built during this period like the Shenzhen Metro and Hong Kong MTR's Tseung Kwan O line.

Parallel trading in Hong Kong

Targeting the problem, MTR hired hundreds of staff, erected barriers and gates in attempt to control the situation.

SACEM

The Système d'aide à la conduite, à l'exploitation et à la maintenance is an embedded automatic speed control system used on railway systems, including the RER A suburban railway of Paris and some of the MTR and Santiago Metro lines

SBB-CFF-FFS Re 460

The MTR also operates two Re 460 variants for its cross-boundary service to Guangdong from Hong Kong to Guangzhou.


Affluence Stop

The Affluence Stop (Chinese: 澤豐站), formerly Ho King Stop (Chinese: 河景站), is a MTR Light Rail stop located on the ground between Affluence Garden (Chinese: 澤豐花園) and Tuen Mun River (Chinese: 屯門河) in Tuen Mun District.

Automatic Warning System

Hong Kong, MTR East Rail Line (only used by intercity through trains; local trains use TBL as of 2012, enhanced with ATP)

Beijing-Kowloon Through Train

Services use the East Rail Line in Hong Kong, cross the boundary between Hong Kong and mainland China at Lo Wu and then continue along China's railway network via the Guangshen railway and the Jingguang railway to Beijing.

Canton Road Station

Canton Road Station (Trad. Chinese: 廣東道站) was a planned railway station on the Kowloon Southern Link of West Rail Line between East Tsim Sha Tsui Station and Austin Station, beneath the shopping mall, Harbour City in Tsim Sha Tsui, by replacing the existing underground car park.

Causeway Bay North Station

KCR has also proposed adding Causeway Bay North Station as part of Shatin to Central Link, to be situated between Exhibition Station and Hung Hom Station.

Cheung Sha Wan Station

Cheung Sha Wan Station is an underground station located underneath Cheung Sha Wan Road in Sham Shui Po District on the Tsuen Wan Line of Hong Kong MTR, between Sham Shui Po and Lai Chi Kok.

Fare avoidance

In the MTR system of Hong Kong, Lo Wu and Lok Ma Chau Station of East Rail Line serve as checkpoints for rail passengers between Hong Kong and mainland China and vice-versa.

Fo Tan Station

Fo Tan Railway House (formerly called KCRC House), MTR Ho Tung Lau Maintenance Centre and Depot, Jubilee Garden, Jubilee Court, IVE (Sha Tin), Hong Kong Sports Institute, Jockey Club Ti-I College, a bus stop, a minibus stop, a taxi stand, Lok King Street, Tai Po Road

History of transport in Hong Kong

The Kowloon Canton Railway (now the East Rail Line on the MTR system) was built from the southern tip of Kowloon to Canton (now Guangzhou) in the Kwangtung Province (now Guangdong Province) in the 1900s.

Lai Chi Kok Station

These bus routes are terminating near Lai Chi Kok MTR Station, but on Cheung Sha Wan Road there are many more routes that are available.

Lantau Link

The upper level is open, 3-lane separated highway in both directions, while the lower level is the track for MTR Airport Express and Tung Chung Line, and two single-lane roads for emergency in both directions.

Line 2, Wuhan Metro

The configuration for the two stations is similar to that of Mong Kok and Prince Edward stations in Hong Kong's Mass Transit Railway.

Lo Wu Control Point

The control point is connected with MTR's Lo Wu Station, whereas the Luohu Port is connected to Shenzhen Railway Station Plaza, Luohu Commercial City and Shenzhen Railway Station, as well as Shenzhen Metro's Luohu Station.

Ma On Shan

Ma On Shan Station, a station of the MTR Ma On Shan Line in Ma On Shan town

Metropolis Daily

The paper is distributed from Monday to Friday (except for public holidays), by hand or from the newspaper stands in 49 MTR stations and 11 other key central locations, such as big shopping malls owned by MTR Corporation Limited like Paradise Mall, Telford Plaza, and Luk Yeung Galleria (綠楊坊 Pinyin: lǜ yáng fāng).

Mong Kok Station

The station was named Argyle after Argyle Street, a major thoroughfare in its vicinity, during the planning stage of the MTR system.

MTR Professional Audio

Apart from manufacturing 'problem-solver' audio products such as the RaxX expandable 19" rack-mounting system, MTR distributes the Dutch stageClix digital wireless system for guitars, basses, microphones etc., Mcgregor UK-made mixer-amplifiers, power amplifiers, speakers, karaoke systems, the Californian A-Designs boutique audio products including the REDDI valve DI box, Pacifica microphone preamplifier, Hammer valve EQ.

MTR Rotem EMU

MTR anticipated that the opening of the Disneyland Resort and Ngong Ping 360 would have an increase in passenger demand and therefore ordered four new trains for Tung Chung Line.

North Island Line

The existing Tung Chung Line will be extended along the northern coast of Hong Kong Island, with Tamar, Exhibition and Causeway Bay North Stations along the path.

Sai Wan Ho Station

Sai Wan Ho is a station in Sai Wan Ho on the Hong Kong MTR Island lineIsland line.

Shanghai-Kowloon Through Train

The Shanghai-Kowloon Through Train is an intercity railway service between Kowloon Station (also known as Hung Hom Station) in Hong Kong and the Shanghai Railway Station, jointly operated by the MTR of Hong Kong and China's national rail service (Shanghai Railway Bureau).

Shau Kei Wan Station

Shau Kei Wan Station is a station on the Hong Kong MTR Island lineIsland line in the neighborhood Shau Kei Wan.

Suruli Falls

In November 2009, Minister of Environment and Forests, Jairam Ramesh, in a letter to Anil Kakodkar, Secretary, Department of Atomic Energy (India) (DAE) and Chairman, Atomic Energy Commission of India (AEC), denied permission for the Department of Atomic Energy to set up the India-based Neutrino Observatory (INO) project at Singara in Nilgiris, as it falls in the buffer zone of the Mudumalai Tiger Reserve (MTR).

Tai Koo

Tai Koo Station, a station on the Island Line of the MTR, the underground railway system in Hong Kong

Tai Koo Station

The Island Line opening ceremony was held in this station in May 1985 and was officiated by then-MTR chairman Sir Wilfrid Newton and Governor of Hong Kong Sir Edward Youde, who unveiled the commemorative plaques at the concourse level.

Tsing Yi

Tsing Yi Station, at the northeastern part of Tsing Yi Island, in Tsing Yi Town, is served by MTR Tung Chung Line and Airport Express.

Tsuen Wan Station

This was because the station was actually at the northern edge of Tsuen Wan town by then, and the infrastructure was also incomplete, meaning it was unable to attract many people in the town centre to take MTR.


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