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Hong Kong West Rail, China



Platforms have straight boarding areas with minimum platform gap as well as platform screen doors.


  • The West Rail route.

  • Station concourses incorporate automated ticketing systems.

  • Sufficient lifts and escalators allow for ease of passenger handling.

  • Platforms have straight boarding areas with minimum platform gap as well as...

  • Cross section configuration of a typical West Rail station.

  • West Rail will be one of the quietest railways in the world.

  • The interior of the trains are spacious and able to carry 335 passengers.

  • The trains will be formed of 7 cars, due for delivery during 2001.

  • 11.5km of the new line will be in tunnel.

  • The first new train is delivered to the Hong Kong West Rail project.

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