Light Rail Route 701

## **KCR Light Rail Route 701** **九廣輕鐵701綫**

Before the cancellation of Route 701, services were mainly provided with a 1-car service

## Technical Information

### Max speed Limit

50 Km/h

The discontinued  **KCR Light Rail** **Route 701** Tin Shui Wai South Circular, is the first circular route of the Light Rail . This route runs via Locwood and Tin Yiu, which operate in the form of an infinite loop, aim to provide residents with **Light Rail** services connected to the **West Rail**.

This route was put into service with the opening of West Rail in December 2003. In order to meet the demand of passengers starting from the new school year 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 as Route **705** .

## History

* An amended version of the 2003 Light Rail Transit Reconfiguration Plan was planned for this route.
* This route was originally scheduled to operate on 20 December 2003 when the Template:Kowloon West Rail opened.
* December 14, 2003: a free trial day was held on Route ****701**** .
* December 16, 2003:  **KCR West Rail** held a trial ride day and Route ****701**** was put into service earlier on the same day.
* December 24, 2003: Additional overnight service will be provided on Christmas Eve.
* December 31, 2003: Additional overnight service on New Year's Eve.
* January 21, 2004: Additional overnight service on New Year's Eve (Chinese calendar).
* August 22, 2004: ****701**** extended to Tin Shui Wai North, renamed Route **705** .

### Pre-closing (August 2004) Information

 05:27-00:44 | 6-9

## Service

### Vehicles

In the early days of this route (December 2003), when KCR overestimated the patronage of Tin Shui Wai South, at one time four coupled-set Light Rail Vehicles were deployed, which were later reduced to three single cars.

### Series application

This route uses 9 trains, with train sequence numbers 101-109.

When it was introduced in December 2003, it used 4 sets of coupled-set Light Rail Vehicles during peak hours and before it ceased operation (August 2004), it used 3 sets of single cars during peak hours.

## Alignment

This route runs only in the southern part of Tin Shui Wai and only within **Fare Zone 4**, the only route ever to serve only one toll zone.

It also has the lowest number of platform stops per interchange, with only 9 per interchange.

This route was then a separate zone from Chestwood to Tin Shui (previously used by **720**, **721** route).

The number of platforms per turn is 10 and the total right turn angle is 360 degrees less than the left turn angle, i.e. counter-clockwise on the track.

The bold text in the table below represents facilities that are only used on this route (before route cancellation).

1. **Tin Shui Wai Stop Platform 1**, T405
2. Tin Tsz Stop Platform 1
3. Tin Wu Stop Platform 1
4. Ginza Stop Platform 1, T412, W571 (**Right**)
5. **Tin Wing Stop Platform 5, T221**, T222, T223, crossover, W633 (left), T408
6. Chestwood Stop Platform 2, W623 (**Left**), T224
7. Tin Shui Stop Platform 2
8. Locwood Stop Platform 2
9. Tin Yiu StopPlatform 2, W592 (**left**), T403, T404, W611 (**left**)
10. **Tin Shui Wai Stop Platform 1**

### Contact routes

At least one Stop shared with the relevant route, this list includes full day routes only, italics indicate no shared platforms.

* December 16, 2003: **751**, **761**, **761P**
* April 9, 2004:  ***706*** , **751**, **761**, **761P**

## Related events

More Info: **Light Rail Accidents**
* April 16, 2004: The first train of this route (No. 1063) derailed before entering the Tin Wing Stop former terminus platform, no one was injured.

## Related articles

* Light Rail Route 705
* Light Rail Route 702 (Cancelled)

## External links

* Light Rail Route 701, USHB

1. ↑ LCQ2: Light Rail to increase short feeder services, 27 October 2004
2. ↑ List of Light Rail Schedules, Discuss
3. ↑ 輕鐵出軌二十人搶修, Apple Daily, April 17, 2004