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The Airport Express is one of the lines of the Mass Transit Railway (MTR) serving Hong Kong. It links the principal urban areas of Hong Kong to Hong Kong International Airport and the associated AsiaWorld–Expo exhibition and convention centre. Although a part of the MTR system, the Airport Express is not primarily a rapid transit or metro line. Instead, it provides premium fare express service to and from the airport and exhibition centre every 10 minutes during daytime and evening, and every 12 minutes after 11:28 pm, using specially designed rolling stock intended to provide similar levels of comfort to that found on an airliner. The average maximum speed between stations is . The Airport Express line is the only rail link to the airport's terminal area. However, it is paralleled for most of its length by the Tung Chung Line, a more traditional rapid transit line. The Tung Chung line diverges from the Airport Express line just south of the channel between Lantau Island and Chek Lap Kok island (on which the airport was constructed), and terminates in the adjacent Tung Chung new town. From here bus links serve the various areas of the airport, including the passenger terminals. The journey from Hong Kong Station to the airport takes 24 minutes. The line is coloured teal on MTR system maps. ==History== In October 1989, the Hong Kong government decided to replace the over-crowded Kai Tak Airport, located in Kowloon, with a new airport to be constructed at Chek Lap Kok. The government also invited the Mass Transit Railway Corporation to build an express line to the airport called the Lantau Airport Railway (LAR). The project did not begin until the Chinese government and the British government settled financial and land disagreements in November 1994. The Lantau Airport Railway was developed as two separate MTR lines, the Tung Chung Line and the Airport Express, with the two lines sharing tracks for parts of their journey. It cost $35.1 billion. The Airport Express began service on 6 July 1998, the same date as the new Hong Kong International Airport, and initially terminated at Airport Station. The initial journey time was 23 minutes.〔 With the opening of Sunny Bay Station on the adjacent Tung Chung Line in June 2005, the total journey time between the Airport and Hong Kong Stations increased to 24 minutes. With the opening of AsiaWorld–Expo, Airport Express was extended to AsiaWorld–Expo Station on 20 December 2005. The journey time to this station from Hong Kong is 28 minutes. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Airport Express (MTR)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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