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Ho Tung Lau Depot Entrance (July 2009)
Ho Tung Lau Depot (HTD) is a MTR East Rail Line depot located in Fo Tan, Sha Tin District, New Territories, and is near Fo Tan and Racecourse Stations on the East Rail Line. The depot is right below Jubilee Garden, Royal Ascot, The Palazzo and the Fo Tan Railway Building, with the entrance and exit located on the side of the public transport interchange of Fo Tan Station on Au Pui Wan Street.
History[]
The original site of Ho Tung Lau Depot is a famous building called Ho Tung Lau, which is the villa owned by Hong Kong tycoon Ho Tung. In 1964, the Engineering and Development Division of the Public Works Department planned to build a maintenance centre on land reclaimed from Ho Tung House, Sha Tin[1]; In 1966, the land of Ho Tung House was repurchased, and two years later the depot and staff quarters of the English section of the Kowloon-Canton Railway (Currently the East Rail Line) were built, which was later named "Ho Tung Lau Rolling Stock Maintenance Centre".
On 2007 December 12, the two railways merged and the Ho Tung Building Maintenance Centre, formerly operated by the Kowloon-Canton Railway Company, was granted to MTR Corporation Limited for continued operation and was renamed Ho Tung Lau Depot.
In addition, from 2nd of Febuary to the 9th of May, 2020, the depot was also the site for the dismantling of MTR Mid-Life Refurbishment Train.
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- ↑ In 1987, a Yellow Head train (58 car of E458 formation) accidentally crashed during dispatching at this depot, and car No. 458 which was involved was seriously damaged, and it was immediately scrapped and replaced by car no. 45 for the original E445 formation (the number was changed to 458 and retired on the 4th April 2022).