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Transport

comprehensive service network. The entire system carries an average of around five million passengers each day.

In addition, the MTRCL provides intercity through-train services from Hong Kong to Beijing, Shanghai and cities in Guangdong. It carried a daily average of 12,300 travellers in 2014.

There are two rail-based crossing points at the boundary between Hong Kong and the Mainland at Lo Wu and the Lok Ma Chau Spur Line control points, which are connected by the East Rail Line. The Lo Wu Control Point operates daily between 6.30 am and midnight, handling a daily average of 239,000 passengers in 2014, and more than 343,000 on a holiday. The Lok Ma Chau Spur Line Control Point, which connects to Futian Port in Shenzhen, operates between 6.30 am and 10.30 pm daily for travellers by rail and specified road-based public transport. In 2014, the Lok Ma Chau Spur Line Control Point handled an average of about 150,000 passengers daily, and more than 201,000 travellers on a holiday.

The map below shows the existing railway network and five railway projects under construction.

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Tuen Mun

Tung Chung

Lantau Island

Yuen Long

Shenzhen

Lo Wu

Lok Ma

Chau

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Tsing Yi

WEST ISLAND LINE

Tsuen Wan

Sheung Shui

Tai Po

New Territories

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Existing Railway

Rail Project under Construction

|HONG KONG SECTION OF GUANGZHOU-SHENZHEN-

| HONG KỌNG EXPRESS RAIL LINK

Ma On Shan

Shatin

SHA TIN TO CENTRAL LINK

KWUN TONG LINE EXTENSION

Kowloon

Hong Kong

Island

SOUTH ISLAND LINE (EAST)

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