The new MTR Mainland China Mainland Mainland Mainland Eight Trucks Sunday (January 28) is put into service on the Hong Kong Island Line.
Comprehensive Sing Tao Daily and Hong Kong 01 reported that Q-TRAIN replaced the first generation of trains invested in service since 1979, namely British M-TRAIN, which is a new train after the Guantang Line.Urban line in service.
According to reports, when the first class Q-TRAIN drove at the platform 2 of Chaiwan Station at 9:48 in the morning, a lot of railways cheered at the scene and shouted "Q-TRAIN! Q-TRAIN"" ", Warmly welcome Q-TRAIN Hong Kong Island line bus, and many people excitedly shouted" Sesame Open ".
A railway fans present said that he was reluctant to retire with the British trains (M-TRAIN), which has been serving for more than 40 years, but he believed that the British train was noisy and the maintenance costs of maintenance after the old car were aging.The safety issues need to be followed, and the change of the car is also inevitable.
A spokesman for MTR said that there are many improvements in facilities in the design of the new train, such as a wider carriage space design, a dynamic roadmap display in the car, the LED lighting and the train are equipped with "intelligent intelligence and the train equipment.Server "can monitor the status of the train in real time, while helping big data analysis to strengthen the preventive maintenance of the train.
Q-TRAIN was manufactured by CRRC Qingdao Sifang locomotive.The MTR Corporation approved the contract in 2015, and purchased the new trains of the 93 -column urban line at the price of 6 billion yuan (Hong Kong dollars, about S $ 1.031 billion) at that time, in order to replace the first -generation urban line trains with the asset period.This is the biggest investment in trains in the MTR.
