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The West Rail Line () is one of the MTR lines in Hong Kong, indicated by the colour dark magenta. It was formerly known as the KCR West Rail (). The line connects Hung Hom Station in Kowloon and Tuen Mun Station in Tuen Mun, 35.4 km away, in 37 minutes.〔 The railway runs through the cities of Kowloon, Castle Peak and Tsuen Wan. Currently the West Rail Line only provides a local service at three-minute peak headway, resembling a metro more than a commuter railway. However the line was built to commuter railway standard, anticipating freight and intercity services to Mainland China which were cancelled and superseded by the Guangzhou–Shenzhen–Hong Kong Express Rail Link Hong Kong section. The line was originally built and operated by the Kowloon-Canton Railway Corporation (KCRC) prior to its merger with the MTR Corporation (MTRC), which took over the line on 2 December 2007 under a 50-year lease. == History == A railway to the northwestern New Territories from the urban area in Kowloon was recommended as early as 1978 in a Tuen Mun Transport Study by Scott Wilson Kirkpatrick & Partner; The 1994 Hong Kong Government Railway Development Strategy report envisaged a domestic passenger service between the North West New Territories (NWNT) and urban Kowloon, a cross-boundary passenger service for passengers travelling between Hong Kong and China, and container freight transport between ports in China and Hong Kong.〔 In January 1995, the Government invited the Kowloon-Canton Railway Corporation (KCRC) to submit a proposal for the design, construction and operation of the proposed Western Corridor Railway. KCRC submitted a full proposal in November 1995, as did MTRC, and twelve months later the Government adopted KCRC’s proposal.〔 Tuen Mun residents clamoured for a direct connection (or failing that, a costly alternative coastal alignment), and the terminus was duly extended along Tuen Mun Nullah. Along with the Light Rail network, which was reconfigured as a feeder system, the railway was designed to serve 1.08 million residents in northwestern New Territories, 25% of whom lived within walking distance to stations compared to 80% along the Tseung Kwan O Line.〔p. 39 Originally conceived and carried through to the technical design phase as a 12-car system, parallelling the KCRC-operated East Rail Line, the West Rail project was re-evaluated by the KCRC in autumn of 1998; the present nine-car capacity (of which seven are run) is a result of improved ultimate headway from 120 seconds to 90. The first phase of construction included a double-track commuter railway connecting Tuen Mun Station and Nam Cheong Station in newly reclaimed West Kowloon, at a cost of HK$46.4 billion〔 in 2002 prices which was some 28% lower than the original estimate in 1998; later reports cite $51.7 billion in money of the day prices. 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「West Rail Line」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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