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Hong Kong Railway Network Key to lines Hong Kong East Rail Line Tseung Kwan O Line Racecourse is only open Disney Resort Line Railway Network during race days or when large events are held at Sha Tin st South Island Line With information as at 21 Jan 2020 Racecourse. Lo Wu & Lok Ma Chau are Airport Express only available to passengers Free in-town check-in services travelling to mainland China or available to passenger. with special permit only. Hung Hom to Admiralty will open in 2022. Intercity train services connect- ing Guangdong Province, Kwun Tong Line Shanghai, and Beijing. Tsuen Wan Line High Speed Rail Available to passengers Island Line travelling to mainland China Tung Chung Line only. West Rail Line Peak Tram Kai Tak to Hung Hom section Details available separately. will open in 2021 and becomes Tram part of the Tuen Ma Line. Details available separately. Ma On Shan Line Light Rail Tai Wai to Kai Tak section will Details available separately. open on 14th Feb 2020, and the line will be renamed to Tuen Ma Line Phase 1. Kai Tak to Hung Hom section will open in 2021 and becomes part of the Tuen Ma Line. 300m Under construction 400m Under construction 300m Interchange Station Covered separated walkway - via Non-Paid Area with Airport Express connection outside station - Distance between interchange, for * Mong Kok-Mong Kok East 550m ©HKRail.Net 2020 http://www.hkrail.net 300m over 200m only * Kowloon-Austin 650m * Sheung Wan-Hong Kong 500m This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. Key * Sheung Wan-Central 800m To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/. Interchange Station (Tsim Sha Tsui & * Central-Admiralty 400m Ver. 2020.01-E-F East Tsim Sha Tsui) via Non-Paid Area * Tsuen Wan-Tsuen Wan West 1,200m.
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