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THURSDAY, OCTOBER 9, 1975

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SPECIAL TRAIN SERVICES FOR CHUNG YEUNG FESTIVAL

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SPECIAL PASSENGER TRAIN SERVICES WILL BE OPERATED TO WO HOP SHOCK

DURING THE CHUNG YEUNG FESTIVAL PERIOD, ON OCTOBER 12 (SUNDAY) AND OCTOBER

13 (MONDAY), TO COPE WITH THE EXPECTED INCREASE IN COMMUTERS.

ELEVEN ADDITIONAL UP-TRAINS WILL RUN AT ABOUT HOURLY INTERVALS

BETWEEN TSIM SHA TSUI AND WO HOP SHEK BETWEEN 6.15 A.M. AND 4.44 P.M. ON

THE TWO DAYS. THE SAME NUMBER OF ADDITIONAL DOWN-TRAINS WILL ALSO BE

OPERATED AT ABOUT HOURLY INTERVALS BETWEEN 7.40 A.M. AND 6.14 P.M. THESE

SPECIAL TRAINS WILL NOT PICK UP PASSENGERS AT THE MONG KOK STATION.

PASSENGERS NORMALLY BOARDING AT MONG KOK ARE ADVISED TO GO TO

TSIM SHA TSUI STATION DURING THIS PERIOD AND HOLDERS OF MONTHLY TICKETS

WILL BE ALLOWED TO BOARD AT TSIM SHA TSUI WITHOUT EXTRA CHARGE.

A SPOKESMAN FOR THE KOWLOON-CANTON RAILWAY SAID THAT MORE SPECIAL

TRAINS MIGHT BE OPERATED IN THE LATE EVENINGS IF DEMAND WARRANTED.

HE SAID ALL THE UP-TRAINS FROM KOWLOON TO THE NEW TERRITORIES

WOULD BE EXPECTED FULL BETWEEN 6 ..M. AND 3 P.M., WHILE DOWN-TRAINS WOULD

PROBABLY BE FULL FROM 3 P.M. TO 9 Pal.

ALTHOUGH THERE WILL BE NO ADVANCE BOOKING OF RAILWAY TICKETS,

SPECIAL CONCESSION RETURN TICKETS WILL BE AVAILABLE AT THE TSIM SHA TSUI

STATION ON THE TWO DAYS, FOR ORDINARY CLASS ONLY FROM KOWLOON TO WO HOP SHEK,

AND FOR BOTH FIRST AND ORDINARY CLASS FROM KOWLOON TO LO WU, AND THEN TO

SANDY RIDGE.

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