Disneyland Resort line

This article is about the MTR line serving the Hong Kong Disneyland Resort. For the monorail lines at other Disney theme parks, see Disney monorail.

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A Disneyland Resort Line train at Sunny Bay Station
Overview
Locale	Districts: Tsuen Wan
Termini	Sunny Bay Disneyland Resort
Stations	2
Service
Type	Rapid transit
System	MTR
Ridership	11,000 daily average (2010)
History
Opened	1 August 2005
Technical
Line length	3.8 km (2.4 mi)
Track gauge	1,432 mm (4 ft 8+3⁄8 in)
Route map Tung Chung line to Tung Chung Airport Express to AsiaWorld–Expo Siu Ho Wan Depot Tung Chung line and Airport Express to Hong Kong Sunny Bay      North Lantau Highway Sunny Bay Road Penny's Bay Highway Magic Road Disneyland Resort Ferry transfer ( via short walk from Disneyland Resort station )

Disneyland Resort line
Traditional Chinese	迪士尼綫
Simplified Chinese	迪士尼线
Transcriptions Standard Mandarin Hanyu Pinyin Díshìní xiàn Yue: Cantonese Yale Romanization dihk sih nèih sin Jyutping dik6 si6 nei4 sin3

Geographically accurate map of the MTR Disneyland Resort Line.

The Disneyland Resort Line is a heavy rail MTR line connecting Sunny Bay to the Hong Kong Disneyland Resort, 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 Disney theme park. There are only two stations on this line, Sunny Bay and Disneyland Resort, 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 Tsing Yi and Tung Chung stations.

The rail link was completed in April 2005. In preparation for the opening of Hong Kong Disneyland theme park 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, 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 three and a half minutes. Its track gauge is 1,432 mm (4 ft 8+3⁄8 in). The MTR designed a new driverless train and produced it by refitting existing M-Trains for the line, which is designed with a Disney theme in mind. Bronze statues of well-known Disney characters, such as Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck, are included inside of the trains, and the windows are shaped not like squares but like Mickey Mouse's head.

Some of the M-Train cars used in 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 Alstom for these trains, but they were made in England (as compared to the Phase 1 and 2 trains ordered from 1979–1989 and made by Metro-Cammell (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.

These trains are normally operated automatically without drivers; this is a first for the MTR network, although the trains for the future South Island Line will also be driverless.

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  The handrails resemble Mickey Mouse.
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  The platforms of the Disneyland Resort station shows conspicuous Victorian features.
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  Inside the Disneyland MTR
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  Disneyland Resort Line M-Train at Disneyland Resort station

Stations

This is a list of the stations on the Disneyland Resort Line.

Livery and name		District	Connections	Opening date
colspan="5" style="border-top:5px solid #Template:HK-MTR color; border-bottom:5px solid #Template:HK-MTR color;"| Disneyland Resort Line
	Sunny Bay	Tsuen Wan	Template:HK-MTR box	1 August 2005
	Disneyland Resort			1 August 2005

Disneyland Resort station is designed in a Victorian style. On the other hand, Sunny Bay station is designed in a futuristic style. It was intended for passengers travelling along this line to experience a feeling of time travel.

See also

• Rail transport in Walt Disney Parks and Resorts

External links

• Environmental reports of the Disneyland Resort Line (Penny's Bay Rail Link) Project
• Disneyland Resort Line Project website
• A brochure of the Penny's Bay Rail Link project (Adobe Systems Acrobat (pdf) format)
• HKDL Source - The Premiere Hong Kong Disneyland Fansite - MTR Page