Light Rail Route 506

## **KCR Light Rail Route 506** **九廣輕鐵506綫**

The  **KCR Light Rail** **Route 506**, which is now out of service, connects Tuen Mun Ferry Pier and Yau Oi. It is the First **Light Rail** route in Tuen Mun District. It was replaced by MTR Bus Route 506 in July 2002 and was in service for 5,042 days.

During the operation of this route, green is the representative colour, which is the same as the representative colour of the current Route **507** and Kwun Tong Lines.

## History

* September 23, 1988: **Route 506** was put into service between Tuen Mun Ferry Pier and On Ting, replacing KCR Bus Route 59B.
* September 1990: In order to cooperate with the construction of Tuen Mun Ferry Pier to Yau Oi branch line, this route was temporarily changed to the loop at Yau Oi Stop.
* February 2, 1992: Changed to Yau Oi as the terminus.
* July 14, 2002: In conjunction with the Pui To Road overhead track project, this route was suspended and temporarily changed to Light Rail feeder buses.
* August 31, 2003: The overhead track project of Pui To Road was completed, but there were not enough Light Rail trains at that time, so service did not resume.

It was planned to display the route number to 506D for the return train with San Shek Wan as the terminal stop on this route, but it was not implemented in the end.

The new Light Rail vehicles have been put into service since 2009. Most Tuen Mun District councillors hope that this line can be resumed by Light Rail as soon as possible, but it has not been implemented for a long time. Until 2021, when a new Light Rail is put into service, the district councillors in the district once again expressed their appeal to resume the Light Rail , but it was also rejected.

Although this route has been canceled in name, but for the convenience of setting up a turnout for trains to travel from Kin On Stop to Tsing Wun Stop, the Light Rail system still has the route data of Route 506.

## Route

When this line was opened to traffic, it was the only line without an independent section, but from February 2nd 1992 (Route **611** was canceled) to this line, it was changed to bus operation, Jian'an to Technical College (now Tsing Wn) is the only independent section of this route.

The number of platforms that this route stops at each turn is 22, and the total right-turn angle is 360 degrees more than the left-turn angle, that is, the clockwise route on track.

The bold in the table below represent the facilities used by this route only (before the route was cancelled).

### Northbound (To Yau Oi)

1. Tuen Mun Ferry Pier Stop **Platform 1**, T106, W491 (Right)
2. Melody Garden Stop Platform 1
3. Butterfly Stop Platform 1, T109
4. LRT Depot Stop Platform 1, W311 (Left), T112
5. San Shek Wan Stop Platform 1
6. Tsing Shan Tsuen Stop Platform 1
7. Technical Institute Stop Platform 1, W341（**Right**）, Cross, Cross, T114
8. Kin On Stop Platform 2, W683 (Right), Cross, Cross, T422
9. San Fat Stop Platform 2, W673 (Right), Cross, Cross, W661 (Right)
10. Town Centre StopPlatform 3, T142, W471 (Right), Cross
11. Yau Oi Stop Platform 1

### Southbound (To Tuen Mun Ferry Pier)

1. Yau Oi Stop Platform 1, T143
2. On Ting Stop Platform 1, Cross, W451 (Left)
3. Town Centre Stop Platform 1, T426, W672 (Left), T423
4. San Fat Stop Platform 1, W682 (Left), T421
5. Kin On Stop Platform 1, W342(**Left**), T113
6. Technical Institute Stop Platform 2
7. Tsing Shan Tsuen Stop Platform 2
8. San Shek Wan Stop Platform 2, W331 (Right), Cross, Cross, T110
9. LRT Depot Stop Platform 2, T108, T107
10. Butterfly Stop Platform 2
11. Melody Garden Stop Platform 2
12. Tuen Mun Ferry Pier StopPlatform 7, T101, W301 (Left), W302 (Left), W303 (Left), W304 (Left), W305（**Left**）
13. Tuen Mun Ferry Pier Stop **Platform 1**

### Contacting Routes

It shares at least one stop with related routes. This list only includes full-day routes.

* September 23, 1988: **511**, **610**, **611**, **612** (All Routes)
* September 24, 1988: **505**, **511**, **610**, **611**, **612** (All Routes)
* June 4, 1989: **505**, **507**, **511**, **610**, **611**, **612** (All Routes)
* July 22, 1990: **505**, **507**, **610**, **611**, **612** (All Routes)
* February 2, 1992: **505**, **507**, **610**, **612**, **614** (All Routes)
* January 10, 1993: **505**, **507**, **610**, **612**, **614**, **615**
* March 13, 1994: **505**, **507**, **610**, **614**, **615**, **720**

## Usage status

In the early days, this route was the only Light Rail from On Ting, city center to Tuen Mun Ferry Pier. Later, the Tuen Mun Branch Line Yau Oi to Tuen Mun Ferry Pier section was opened to traffic on November 17, 1991. Passengers could use Route **507** to get to. This route became circular; and at that time San Shek Wan has not yet been developed, and the service area is small. In the later period, Hong Kong’s industry moved northward, and the number of people using Jian’an Station continued to decline. Therefore, the passenger volume was only average to low, and the number of vehicles was light at that time. The least of the railway lines, only 4 to 6 trains, and operate with a single card.

## References

1. ↑ 輕の鐵人- Information system (PIDS/OPIS)