Passengers on Hong Kong’s high-speed rail link will go through five-step ticket and security process before boarding
Rail bosses stopped short of estimating how long the process would take, while announcing details of the plans on Thursday
Passengers who want to cross the border on Hong Kong’s high-speed rail link will have to go through five steps at the terminus before they board the train, but the MTR Corporation on Thursday stopped short of providing the time required for the process.
The rail giant unveiled the details ahead of the scheduled opening of the HK$84.4 billion Guangzhou-Shenzhen-Hong Kong Express rail link in September, when mainland laws will be applied in part of the West Kowloon terminus under a controversial joint checkpoint arrangement.
Departing passengers who have not bought their tickets in advance will have to buy or collect the tickets at the ticket hall on the B1 level. They will then show terminus officers their personal documents and tickets for an identity check on the same floor.
Next they go to the ticket gates to get into the security-checking zone on the same floor, where there are 15 X-ray machines and seven metal detector gates. Security officers will conduct a luggage check, which will take about 20 seconds excluding the queuing time.