MTR to provide overnight service on Lunar New Year's Eve

MTR announced Friday that overnight train service will be provided on Lunar New Year’s Eve (Jan 21), while the service of five railway lines will also be enhanced in the lead up to and during the Lunar New Year holidays.

For overnight service, all MTR railway lines, except the Airport Express, Disneyland Resort Line and journeys to or from Lok Ma Chau Station on the East Rail Line, will run trains overnight on January 21, while service will be stepped up starting from 8pm on that day on the Island Line, Tsuen Wan Line and Kwun Tong Line. 

Seven Light Rail routes 505, 507, 610, 614P, 615P, 706 and 751 will also provide overnight service on that day. MTR Bus routes 506, K51 and K54, meanwhile, will extend their service hours for Lunar New Year’s Eve.

Separately, service on the Island Line, Tsuen Wan Line, Kwun Tong Line, South Island Line and Tuen Ma Line will be enhanced during different periods today, this weekend, next Friday and during the first four days of the new year on the Lunar calendar.

There will be a total of more than 1,800 additional train trips with train frequencies enhanced to between 2.3 and about 6 minutes, said the railway operator.