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Hung Hom (Chinese: 紅磡; Cantonese Yale: Hùngham) is a passenger [1] railway station in Hung Hom, Kowloon, Hong Kong.It is an interchange station between the East Rail line and the Tuen Ma line domestic services of the MTR network, as well as the southern terminus of cross-border through-trains to mainland China which has been discontinued.
Starting at Whampoa in Hung Hom and ending at Tiu Keng Leng in Tseung Kwan O, Sai Kung, the route has 17 stations and takes 35 minutes to complete. [3] The Kwun Tong line is one of the busiest railway lines on the network connecting the central and the eastern portions of Kowloon via Wong Tai Sin. The line is mostly underground, but includes a ...
HOM Hung Hom East Rail line: Yau Tsim Mong/Kowloon City: 30 November 1975: HUH East Tsim Sha Tsui: Transfer to Tsuen Wan line via Tsim Sha Tsui station: Yau Tsim Mong: 24 October 2004: ETS Austin: 16 August 2009: AUS [l] Nam Cheong Tung Chung line: Sham Shui Po: 20 December 2003: NAC Mei Foo Tsuen Wan line: MEF Tsuen Wan West: Tsuen Wan: TWW
A Metro-Cammell EMU derailed at Hung Hom station on 17 September 2019. On 17 September 2019 at 08:32, East Rail service L094 carrying around 500 passengers derailed while approaching Platform 1 of Hung Hom station, injuring eight passengers, with five of whom hospitalised. [61]
The Tuen Ma line is a merger of two former MTR lines, the West Rail line and the Ma On Shan line via a new stretch of mostly underground railway known as the "Tai Wai to Hung Hom section" (大圍至紅磡段) of the Sha Tin to Central Link project. It consists of 11 kilometres (6.8 mi) of track and six new intermediate stations.
The first section, named "Tuen Ma line (Phase 1)”, runs from Tai Wai station in the New Territories to Hung Hom station in Kowloon. The Tai Wai–Hung Hom segment connected the Ma On Shan line and West Rail line, forming the new Tuen Ma line. Operation of the Tai Wai to Kai Tak section began on 14 February 2020. [4]
Hung Hom is served by the Hung Hom station of the MTR. The station serves both the East Rail line and Tuen Ma line . This station also previously played host to the Intercity Through Train (and the KTT) serving neighboring Guangdong province and other major cities in mainland China.
直通車), the MTRC and railway companies of mainland China jointly provided cross-border train services from Hung Hom station, Kowloon, sharing most of the tracks with the East Rail line, to destinations in mainland China through neighbouring Shenzhen on three Through Train routes, namely Beijing line (to/from Beijing West), Shanghai line (to ...