View of Siu Ho Wan Depot from Por Kai Shan
Siu Ho Wan Depot (小濠灣車廠, referred to as SHD) is the depot of MTR Lantau Airport Railway, located in the small waterfront between Siu Ho Wan and Tai Ho Wan, providing train parking tracks, workshops, train maintenance facilities and infrastructure maintenance facilities for Tung Chung Line, Airport Express and Disneyland Resort Line[1].
Introduction[]
Siu Ho Wan Depot is located on the north shore of Lantau Island, which was reclaimed from the sea in the 1990s. It covers an area of about 30 hectares and is about 5 kilometers east of Tung Chung New Town.
Currently adjacent to the southeast of Siu Ho Wan Depot are the Airport Express track, North Lantau Road and the relevant branch road of the Tuen Mun-Chek Lap Kok Link (Shun Long Road) , and its northwest is equipped with a maintenance channel and a barge wharf Satellite image; new trains that have just arrived in Hong Kong will generally unload and be temporarily stored in this depot for testing before being shipped to their respective depots.
After the Disneyland Resort Line train leaves Sunny Bay, it needs to go through a section of Airport Express before arriving at the depot. There are also MTR Modernisation Train spare carriages in the depot.
Future developments[]
The then Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying delivered a policy address on 18 January 2017, which mentioned that the depot is a potential property development project on top of the railway, which can provide no less than 14,000 residential units and related Community Facilities[2]. The MTR’s environmental impact assessment report on the Siu Ho Wan depot development plan was approved by the government in November 2017, and the statutory planning process started in January 2018.
On 25 November 2020, Chief Executive Carrie Lam issued the "Policy Address", proposing to initiate the development of the superstructure of the Siu Ho Wan depot site, believing that the implementation of the above projects will help promote the long-term social and economic development of Hong Kong. The content mentions that an outline zoning plan has been drawn up for the development of the site above the depot. According to the latest assessment, it is expected to provide about 20,000 units in the medium and long term, about half of which will be subsidised sale flats. This is another railway project that utilizes the development of railway facilities to provide public housing after 40 years after the development of Island Line in Kornhill in the 1980s. MTR expressed its great expectation to participate in the development of the Siu Ho Wan depot site as a new community. This new community will accommodate subsidised sale housing and private housing and MTR would work with the government to implement this project of great significance to Hong Kong. [3][4]
The superstructure development covers an area of 30 hectares, providing a gross floor area of over 1 million square meters, a 30,000 square meter shopping mall and various community facilities. Among them are about 20,000 residential units, with private housing and subsidized housing accounting for about half. The first batch of about 6,000 public and private units is expected to be occupied from 2030. [5]
How to get there[]
Members of the public may travel on NLB Route 36 at Tung Chung Town Centre and get off at Pak Mong Village, or rent a bicycle at Yat Tung Estate and head there via Cheung Tung Road and the small path.
References[]
- ↑ MTR website: Depots
- ↑ 2017 Policy Address (5) Housing, Land and Transport: Siu Ho Wan Depot Site and Properties along Railway Lines Development
- ↑ 2020 Chief Executive's Policy Address
- ↑ MTR welcomes the government’s plan to further expand the railway network and develop the Siu Ho Wan depot site
- ↑ "MTR Corporation 2020 Annual Performance Report", page 17, 11 March 2021.
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