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SPECIAL TRAIN SERVICES DURING LUNAR NEW YEAR HOLIDAYS ****

FIVE SPECIAL UPTRAINS AND SIX DOWNTRAINS WILL BE OPERATED DURING THE LUNAR NEW YEAR HOLIDAYS (FEBRUARY 18-21) TO COPE WITH THE EXPECTED INCREASE IN COMMUTERS.

THE FIVE UPTRAINS WILL LEAVE KOWLOON (HUNG HOM) STATION AT 7.54 A.., 12.40 P.M., 2.13 P.M., 3.43 P.M. AND 4.47 P.M.

THESE TRAINS, TOGETHER WITH 13 REGULAR TRAINS DEPARTING AT VARIOUS TIMES BETWEEN 6.30 A.M. AND 3.12 P.M. WILL NOT STOP FOR PASSENGERS AT MCNG KOK STATION DURING THESE FOUR DAYS.

ALL PASSENGERS FOR THESE TRAINS ARE REQUESTED TO GO TO KOWLOON RAILWAY STATION. MONTHLY TICKET HOLDERS WILL BE ALLOWED TO BOARD THESE TRAINS WITHOUT EXTRA CHARGES.

THE SIX DOWNTRAINS WILL START THEIR SOUTHBOUND JOURNEY FROM DIFFERENT STATIONS IN THE NEW TERRITORIES.

TWO WILL DEPART FROM LO WU AT 1.50 P.M. AND 5.12 P.H., TWC FROM FANLING AT 12.44 P.M. AND 3.51 P.M., ONE FROM TAI PO MARKET AT 1.57 P.S. AND ONE FROM THE UNIVERSITY AT 5.40 P.)

THE LAST SPECIAL TRAIN, LEAVING LO WU, WILL ARRIVE AT KOWLOON AT 6.50 P.K.

TICKETS FOR TRAINS TO KOWLOON WILL NOT BE AVAILABLE FOR SALE AT MONG KOK RAILWAY STATION.

MR. REGINALD GREGORY, MANAGER OF KOWLOON CANTON RAILWAY, SAID THAT ON THESE FOUR DAYS THE TRAINS FROM KOWLOON TO THE NEW TERRITORIES WOULD PROBABLY BE FULL BETWEEN 6 A.M. AND 3 P.. WHILE THE DOWNTRAINS WOULD PROBABLY BE SO BETWEEN 3 P.M. AND 9 P.M.

HE SAID, HOWEVER, THAT FURTHER SPECIAL TRAINS WOULD ZE RUN IN THE LATE EVENINGS IF THERE WAS PUBLIC DEMAND,