Disneyland Resort Line

For the monorail system in Tokyo Disney Resort, see Disney Resort Line.

Disneyland Resort Line 迪士尼綫

A Disneyland Resort Line train

No. of stations 2 Type Heavy rail Line length 3.8 km Districts Tsuen Wan Opened 1 August 2005 Voltage DC 1500 V Track gauge 1432 mm

Tung Chung Line, Airport Express  Siu Ho Wan Depot Sunny Bay (Tung Chung Line)  Airport Express   Tung Chung Line  Disneyland Resort

Disneyland Resort Line
Traditional Chinese	迪士尼綫
Simplified Chinese	迪士尼线
Transcriptions Mandarin - Hanyu Pinyin Díshìní xiàn Cantonese - Jyutping dik6 si6 nei4 sin3

Geographically accurate map of the MTR Disneyland Resort Line.

The Disneyland Resort Line is an MTR line connecting Yam O to the Hong Kong Disneyland Resort. It is the MTR's seventh line, and the world's first metro line designed to service a Disney theme park, and also the world's first driverless heavy transit line.^{[citation needed]} There are only two stations on this line, Sunny Bay and Disneyland Resort. 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 (see also below) 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 and peak patronage occurs around 0800-1000 and 2100–2300 hours.

Train design

The Disneyland Resort Line is 3.5 kilometres long, and has a travel time of three and a half minutes. 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 are included inside of the trains, such as Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck, 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.

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  The handrails resemble Mickey Mouse.

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  The platforms of the Disneyland Resort station shows conspicuous Victorian features.

Stations

This is a list of all the stations on the Disneyland Resort Line. The coloured boxes holding the station names represent the unique colour motif for the station.

Livery and Name		District	Connection(s)	Date opened
Disneyland Resort Line
	Sunny Bay	Tsuen Wan	Tung Chung Line	June 1, 2005
	Disneyland Resort			August 1, 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.

References

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