Kowloon - Canton Railway (KCR): Hong Kong Section
This project involves modernisation of the 35 km line from
The total cost is about Kowloon to the Chinese border at Lo Wu. £130m. The original timescale for the project has slipped due to funding difficulties and it is not now expected to be completed until 1982.
UK firms have won the major contracts so far awarded.
Following
a feasibility study in 1977, Transmark was awarded a 23m contract to It also has responsibility for oversee the modernisation programme.
the detailed design and supervision of construction of the inter-change
In addition, station (with the Mass Transit Railway) at Kowloon Tong. Het Cam have been awarded the £44m rolling stock contract, Westinghouse Brake and Signal a £6.6m signalling and telecommunica- tions contract, and Balfour Beatty have recently won the £4m contract for supplying and installing the overhead line for electrification.
Island Corridor Extension To Mass Transit
Plans have been announced for the development of a mass transport
The original system on the northern side of Hong Kong Island. intention was an island line extension to the underground Mass Transit Railway (MTR) but the disruption this would cause was considered
Attention is now focussed on a pro- unacceptable in the short term.
posal put forward by the UK based consultants Martin and Voorhees Associates for a 'pre-Metro' surface system based on continental
Recent information suggests single deck light rail vehicles (LRVs).
Met Cam would
that the costs of the two systems are broadly similar. be able to tender for either but would have a substantial advantage were the mass transit solution chosen.
In addition to the IRV system the Martin and Voorhees plan
proposes:
the construction of tunnels to provide an interchange between the LTR and the LRVS at an estimated cost of £125m.
b. the eventual construction in the late 1980s of a new under- ground line.
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