HONG KONG, 18 March 2019:
A train collision disrupted services in Hong Kong today, threatening commuter chaos during rush hour in the heart of the Asian financial hub, authorities said.
The rare disruption on a network used by nearly 6 million people every weekday brought services to a halt between the stations of Central and Admiralty, rail operator MTR Corp said.
“The repair will take quite a long time and the service between Central and Admiralty … will not be available for the whole day,” its operations director, Lau Tin-shing, told a news briefing.
An investigation into the incident has begun, although the trains carried no passengers at the time of the collision during the trial run of a new signal system.
The drivers of both trains were taken to hospital, the network operator added, urging commuters to use other forms of travel or different rail routes.
- Reuters