A signaling glitch between the MTR Corp's Tsing Yi and Sunny Bay stations early yesterday caused delays of up to 37 minutes on the Tung Chung line and a temporary suspension of the Airport Express service.
About 400 passengers heading for the airport had to be transported by 14 shuttle buses.
Train services returned to normal at 8.06am after engineers completed repairs, nearly an hour after the glitch occurred at 7.15am and nearly half an hour after the Airport Express service was suspended for safety reasons.
"MTR trains traveling between Tung Chung and Tsing Yi stations were delayed, running at 15-minute intervals instead of the normal eight minutes," MTRC's corporation relations manager May Wong said.
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"Train services between Hong Kong and Tsing Yi stations remained normal, running at four-minute intervals."
However, an anonymous caller to RTHK said he boarded a train at Tung Chung at 7.20am but it did not leave until 7.57am.
Other callers had mixed reactions to the halt.
One said the delay had caused him great inconvenience, while another, who was heading to the airport, said she was not significantly affected since she had made provisions for delays.
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