The Disneyland Resort line is a

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line connecting Sunny Bay to the

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, coloured pink on the network diagram. It is the seventh line of the former MTR network before the merger of MTR and KCR, and the world's first metro line designed to service a

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. There are only two stations on this line, Sunny Bay and

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, and the line operates as a shuttle service between these two stations. Sunny Bay station is an interchange station with the Tung Chung line between

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and

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stations. Administratively, the entire line is in

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, despite being situated on Lantau Island, and is the only MTR line in Hong Kong to run within a single district.

Construction

The rail link was constructed by

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and completed in April 2005. In preparation for the opening of

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on 12 September, the line started operating on 1 August 2005. The rolling stock is distinctive on account of its Mickey Mouse windows, interior couch seating, and Disneyland figurines displayed in the carriages. On 4 September 2005, the Disneyland Resort line served nearly 40,000 passengers. Peak patronage occurs around 08:00-10:00 and 21:00–23:00 hours, at the parks' respective opening and closing times.

Train design

The Disneyland Resort line is 3.5 kilometres long, and has a travel time of around 6 minutes. Its track gauge is . The MTR designed a new driverless train and produced it by refitting existing M-Trains for the line which is designed with a

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theme in mind. Bronze statues of well-known Disney characters, such as

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and

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, are included inside of the trains, and the windows are shaped like Mickey Mouse's head, instead of the rounded rectangles found on trains of other lines. All of the trains used on the Disneyland Resort line were originally ordered from 1994-1998 as subtype H-Stock train (Phase 3 EMU, A/C 270-291, B/C 486-496). MTR contracted

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for these trains, but they were made in England, much like the Phase 1 and 2 trains ordered from 1979–1989 and made by

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(also in England), which was acquired by GEC Alsthom (now Alstom) in 1989. Units A/C274 A/C281 A/C284 A/C289 A/C291 and B/C490 are now used on the Disneyland Resort line; they were refurbished in 2005 by United Goninan, the same company that modernized the Urban Line trains from 1998-2001. These trains are the first on the MTR to use automatic train operation during normal operation, followed by the CNR Changchun EMUs in service on the

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. However, unlike the South Island line, the operator's cab area has been retained, visible through glass windows at each end of the train. File:HKMTRDisneyresortstation2.jpg, The handrails resemble

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Stations

This is a list of the

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on the Disneyland Resort line. List Disneyland Resort station was designed in

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, while Sunny Bay was designed to be modern. This contrast in design was done to make passengers feel like they are travelling through time between the fantasy world of the Disneyland Resort and the rest of the city.

References

External links

Environmental reports of the Disneyland Resort Line (Penny's Bay Rail Link) Project

A brochure of the Penny's Bay Rail Link project
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Acrobat (''pdf'') format)
HKDL Source - The Premiere Hong Kong Disneyland Fansite - MTR Page
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Construction

Train design

Stations

See also

References

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