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Light Rail Route 705 loops between Tin Shui Wai South and Tin Shui Wai North, passing through Tin Tsz, Tin Shui Wai Town Centre, Tin Yat and Tin Yiu in a counterclockwise manner, operating in the form of an infinite loop, providing Tin Shui Wai residents with light rail services connecting to the Tuen Ma Line.
Its predecessor, Route 701, was put into service in December 2003. In order to meet the passenger demand of the new school year starting in September 2004, KCRC extended the original Route 701 Tin Shui Wai South Circular to Tin Shui Wai North at the end of August, and renamed it Route 705.
History[]
- 22 August 2004: Route 701 Tin Shui Wai South Circular was extended to Tin Shui Wai North and renamed Route 705.
- 24 December 2004: Overnight service was introduced on Christmas Eve.
- 31 December 2004: Overnight service was introduced on New Year's Eve.
- 8 February 2005: Overnight service was introduced on Chinese New Year's Eve (Lunar Calendar).
- 8 October 2006: Route 761 was cancelled and the LRT route map replaced with a change in colour from pink to cyan.
- 14 September 2008: Overnight service was introduced for the Mid-Autumn Festival.
- 24 December 2014: Overnight service on Christmas Eve was cancelled.
- 31 December 2014: Overnight service on New Year's Eve was cancelled.
- 28 March 2015: One additional trailer train was added during morning peak hours, daytime and evening on Saturdays, with the frequency increased from 5.5 minutes to 4.5 minutes during morning peak, from 6.5 minutes to 5.5 minutes during daytime and from 7 minutes to 5.5 minutes during evening.
- 27 September 2015: Overnight service was cancelled on Mid-Autumn Festival.
- 5 to 12 October 2019: MTR suspended services of this route for one week due to the large number of Light Rail stops that were damaged.
- 25 January 2020: Overnight service was cancelled on Lunar New Year's Eve.
- 20 June 2021: The last train from Tin Shui Wai was delayed to 01:02 due to the delay in the departure time of the West Rail Line to coincide with the full opening of the Tuen Ma Line a week before.