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PARLIAMENTARY QUESTION

For WRITTEN ANSWER on

November. 5th 1986

Head of HKD

Please submit

a draft Answer

& Background

:-

to Parliamentary Unit

before RB. Noon. Nov. 4th.

TEXT OF QUESTION :

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210 Mr Robert Parry (Liverpool, Riverside): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what plans the Hong Kong Government has for extending the mass transit railway to the satellite towns in the New Territories of Sha Tin, Tuen Mun, Tai Po and Yuen Long; and if he will make a statement.

P/S

to MRS RENTON

(Minister)

for approval by

NOON Spoveda

POS REPLY(S)

for answer by

MR. RENTON

(Minister)

ANSWER

There are no plans at

present to extend the mass

However, Sha Tin and Tai Po

transit railway to Sha Tin.

new towns are at present served by the Kowloon Canton

Railway, which provides a full, electric service.

A light rail transit system is

being

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Private Secretary

PS.

(Minister)

Parliamentary

constructed by the Kowloon Canton Railway Corporation to

serve Tuen Mun and Yuen Long in the Western New

Territories, and will

will be operational in the latter half

of 1988. Both the Kowloon Canton Railway Corporation and

the Mass Transit Railway Corporation are investigating

the possibility of constructing a rail link to join the

Tuen Mun-Yuen Long light rail

rail system with the existing

mass transit railway terminal at Tsuen Wan, thereby

providing a direct rail link with the urban area.

Clerk

authorised

Coltum...

(Head of Dept)