Pat Heung Depot Entrance (April 2012)
Pat Heung Depot (八鄉車廠, PHD; formerly known as the 
KCR West Rail Pat Heung Maintenance Centre) is located east of Yuen Long. The depot is in the small town of Pat Heung, Yuen Long District, namely southeast of the Tuen Ma Line Kam Sheung Road Station.
Due to the remote location of the Pat Heung Depot, MTR provides Staff Shuttle Bus services between the depot and Kam Sheung Road Station Public Transport Interchange as well as a shuttle train to/from Kam Sheung Road Station for drop-on drivers using a locomotive. These are in place to ensure staff can get to and from work.
Overview[]
Pat Heung Depot covers an area of 32.5 hectares, equivalent to two Victoria Parks, and is one of the largest railway depots in Southeast Asia[1]. When the depot was completed, it provided 27 open-air parking tracks and 6 maintenance tracks. The MTR has expanded the number of parking tracks to 43 in response to the additional demand on the Tuen Ma Line. There are also 4 maintenance pits in the depot building, providing maintenance services for the trains on this line 24 hours a day. After the opening of Kowloon Southern Link, the MTR IKK-Train of East Rail Line and Ma On Shan Line were overhauled at Pat Heung Depot.
The depot also has 8 sets of controllers responsible for the environmental monitoring of the depot, which helps to increase the energy efficiency, temperature regulation and air quality control of the depot. [2]
In order to coordinate with the Sha Tin to Central Link project, the depot is undergoing expansion works on the east sidings[3]. The East Rail Line and Ma On Shan Line IKK-Trains were successively transferred to Pat Heung Depot for refitting works from 2015 to 2021, and will be operated on the Tuen Ma Line. Trains that needed to be overhauled were transferred by diesel locomotives due to differences between signal systems on the East Rail Line and the Tuen Ma line, through a former track connection at the old Hung Hom Station platforms.
The first trains on the two lines to be refitted arrived at the depot in the early hours of July 3 2015 and November 3 2015.
Future Development[]
The Chief Executive’s 2017 Policy Address mentioned that the depot will develop a property development project above the railway, and it is expected to provide 6,000 units in the medium and long term. The Government will continue to take forward the relevant planning work. [4]
References[]
- ↑ "Fax Agency" claims to be "intimidated" for news? Do you not believe it?
- ↑ Environmental Monitoring System of Baxiang Repair Center, Miceeng Computer Engineering Co., Ltd. website
- ↑ MTR - Sha Tin to Central Link - Engineering Construction, Contract No.: 1117
- ↑ 2017 Policy Address Chapter 2 Land, Housing and Transport: Increasing Land Supply
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