Disneyland Resort line

The rail link was constructed by Gammon Construction and completed in April 2005.[3]

In preparation for the opening of Hong Kong Disneyland on 12 September, the line started operating on 1 August 2005. The rolling stock is distinctive on account of its Mickey Mouse windows, interior couch seating, and Disneyland figurines displayed in the carriages.

On 4 September 2005, the Disneyland Resort line served nearly 40,000 passengers. Peak patronage occurs around 08:00–10:00 and 21:00–23:00 hours, at the parks' respective opening and closing times.

The Disneyland Resort line is 3.5 kilometres long, and has a travel time of around 6 minutes. Its track gauge is 1,432 mm (4 ft 8+3⁄8 in). The MTR designed a new driverless train and produced it by refitting existing M-Trains for the line which is designed with a Disney theme in mind. Bronze statues of well-known Disney characters, such as Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck, are included inside of the trains, and the windows are shaped like Mickey Mouse's head, instead of the rounded rectangles found on trains of other lines.

All of the trains used on the Disneyland Resort line were originally ordered from 1994-1998 as subtype H-Stock train (Phase 3 EMU, A/C 270-291, B/C 486-496). MTR contracted Alstom for these trains, but they were made in England, much like the Phase 1 and 2 trains ordered from 1979–1989 and made by Metro-Cammell (also in England), which was acquired by GEC Alsthom (now Alstom) in 1989. Units A/C274 A/C281 A/C284 A/C289 A/C291 and B/C490 are now used on the Disneyland Resort line; they were refurbished in 2005 by United Goninan, the same company that modernized the Urban Line trains from 1998-2001.

These trains are the first on the MTR to use automatic train operation during normal operation, followed by the CNR Changchun EMUs in service on the South Island line. However, unlike the South Island line, the operator's cab area has been retained, visible through glass windows at each end of the train.

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  The handrails resemble Mickey Mouse.
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  The platforms of the Disneyland Resort station shows conspicuous Victorian features.
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  Inside the Disneyland Resort line MTR M-trains
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  M-Train at Disneyland Resort station

This is a list of the stations on the Disneyland Resort line.

List

Livery	Station Name		Images	Interchange; Adjacent transportation	Opening	District
	English	Chinese
Disneyland Resort Line (DRL)
	Sunny Bay	欣澳		Tung Chung line	1 June 2005; 18 years ago	Tsuen Wan
	Disneyland Resort	迪士尼		—	1 August 2005; 18 years ago

Disneyland Resort station was designed in Victorian architecture, while Sunny Bay was designed to be modern. This contrast in design was done to make passengers feel like they are travelling through time between the fantasy world of the Disneyland Resort and the rest of the city.

• Rail transport in Walt Disney Parks and Resorts

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Disneyland Resort line.

• Environmental reports of the Disneyland Resort Line (Penny's Bay Rail Link) Project Archived 2007-11-02 at the Wayback Machine
• Disneyland Resort Line project website Archived 2007-11-11 at the Wayback Machine
• A brochure of the Penny's Bay Rail Link project Archived 2005-04-13 at the Wayback Machine (Adobe Systems Acrobat (pdf) format)
• HKDL Source - The Premiere Hong Kong Disneyland Fansite - MTR Page