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Transport
Rail Transport
MTR
Railways are safe, reliable, efficient, comfortable and environment-friendly mass carriers. Hong Kong's railway system forms the backbone of the public transport system and is essential to the city's continued economic, social and land development. It carries a daily average of some 5.4 million passengers, accounting for about 42 per cent of public transport passenger travel and about 55 per cent of land-based passenger trips to the Mainland.
The railway system is operated and managed by the MTR Corporation Limited (MTRCL), a publicly listed company of which the government is the majority shareholder. It comprises:
⚫ the Kwun Tong Line (Tiu Keng Leng-Whampoa)
• the Tsuen Wan Line (Tsuen Wan-Central)
⚫ the Island Line (Chai Wan-Kennedy Town)
⚫ the Tseung Kwan O Line (Po Lam/Lohas Park-North Point)
⚫ the South Island Line (South Horizons-Admiralty)
• the Tung Chung Line (Hong Kong-Tung Chung)
⚫ the Disneyland Resort Line (Sunny Bay-Disneyland Resort)
⚫ the Airport Express Line (Hong Kong-AsiaWorld-Expo)
⚫ the East Rail Line (Hung Hom-Lo Wu/Lok Ma Chau)
⚫ the West Rail Line (Tuen Mun-Hung Hom)
⚫ the Ma On Shan Line (Wu Kai Sha-Tai Wai)
• the Hong Kong Section of the Guangzhou-Shenzhen-Hong Kong Express Rail Link (XRL)
⚫ the Light Rail
The 256.9km system is made up of 94 heavy rail stations, including a 35.2km Airport Express connecting the urban areas to Hong Kong International Airport and AsiaWorld-Expo, and 68 Light Rail stops spread across a 36.2km network in the north-western New Territories. The entire system is complemented by Light Rail feeder buses.
The MTRCL also provides three types of cross-boundary train services. Intercity through-train services operate from Hong Kong's Hung Hom Station to Beijing, Shanghai and cities in Guangdong, and carried a daily average of 9,900 cross-boundary travellers in 2018. The Lo Wu and Lok Ma Chau stations, which are connected by the East Rail Line, allow travellers to reach the Shenzhen control points and together handled a daily average of 321,800 cross-boundary
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