bodyType

customContents

entityId

entityUuid

articlePageQuery

filter

article

articleBaseAdvertisingInfoArticle

articleListArticle

articleSeoArticle

hooksArticleAcknowledgementGateOverlayArticle

hooksTrackPageViewArticle

hooksContentInterestArticle

articleLinkingDataContent

hooksAmpRedirectArticle

articleSchemaContent

liveArticle

advertZone

sentiment

contentLock

topics

types

sections

paywallTypes

createdDate

publishedDate

sponsorType

urlAlias

moreOnThisArticles

commentCount

authorLocations

authors

corrections

displaySlideShow

multimediaEmbed

printHeadline

seriesContainer

articleSpeeches

socialHeadline

headline

images

flag

firstTopic

glossary

flattenTypeIds

image

relatedLinks

relatedNewsletters

__typename

sponsor

pdfFiles

seriesReverseOrder

series

disableOffPlatformContent

published

updatedDate

summary

subHeadline

body

keywords

readingTime

customTimezone

liveContents

Kanis Leung

Hong Kong’s embattled rail operator has temporarily suspended a driver from getting behind the wheel after a train hit a buffer at Admiralty station.
No passengers were on board when the light collision happened on Tuesday.
At about 12.40am, the MTR Corporation’s operations control centre sent the train from Tsuen Wan station to a sidetrack of Admiralty station, to get ready for the next day’s morning service.
But when the captain drove the train to a designated parking area on the siding at Admiralty, it went beyond the intended end point and hit the buffer.




“No one was injured in the incident. No damage was found on the train and the track, while there were some light scratches left on the buffer stop,” the MTR Corp said in a statement on Thursday.
The firm said it would send the train back to a depot for a check-up and it had told the government about the incident.
The captain was temporarily suspended from driving duties to assist an investigation into what happened, it added.
Tam Kin-chiu, vice-chairman of the Hong Kong Federation of Railway Trade Unions, said the incident was not serious as the train had gone just beyond the designated mark by a small distance and the train had been moving at a very slow speed.
He suspected the driver might have been distracted during the manual driving.
“Driving manually requires more energy to control the train than when using a computer system. So it’s a bit more difficult,” he said.
“Whenever machines are manually controlled, there is a chance of mistakes being made.”
The MTR has over the past year been mired in controversies over the scandal-hit Sha Tin-Central rail link, and its first-ever crash in March.
Wild boar injures woman inside subway station amid gory stand-off
That collision, which happened overnight while the MTR was closed, led to an unprecedented suspension of service between two of the busiest stations on the network, Admiralty and Central, on the Tsuen Wan line for 48 hours.


Hong Kong’s West Kowloon arts hub secures HK$3 billion, 10-year loan facility

Critical review needed to keep Hong Kong’s rail operations on track

Hong Kong braces for 11.38 million trips during Lunar New Year travel rush

MTR Corp under pressure to explain if human error behind Island line shutdown

MTR Corporation

Driver overshoots and hits buffer at Admiralty station on Hong Kong’s MTR network

An MTR train hit a buffer at Admiralty station on Tuesday. Photo: Alamy

Hong Kong’s embattled rail giant MTR Corp to roll new features for mobile app to improve services and rebuild image

MTR Corp officials introduce the new features for its mobile application. Photo: Handout

MTR delay causes long queues at Prince Edward station. Because of a signaling fault, the MTR services were slowed down more than 10 hours. 05AUG17 SCMP / Edward Wong

Hong Kong’s scandal-plagued Sha Tin to Central rail link set to partially open in three months as MTR Corporation resumes signalling tests

Works are ongoing on the Sha Tin to Central link, but there could be a partial opening in mid-September. Photo: Sam Tsang

View of the construction site of Hung Hom MTR station of the Sha Tin to Central Link. 31JAN19 SCMP / Sam Tsang

Defective construction work at Hung Hom station tunnel ‘was subcontractor’s fault, not ours’, says main contractor at MTR commission of inquiry

View of a building site at the Wan Chai Exhibition Centre station overseen by Leighton Contractors (Asia), for the MTR Sha Tin-Central link. Photo: Dickson Lee

Paul Shieh Wing-tai, Senior Counsel for Leighton leaves the Tsuen Wan Law Courts Building after the commission of inquiry into the diaphragm wall and platform slab construction works at the Hung Hom Station extension under the Shatin to Central Link Project substantive hearings. 22OCT18 SCMP / Edward Wong

Philip Boulding, Counsel for MTR Corporation Limited, appears at the former Tsuen Wan Magistrates' Courts, Tsuen Wan, for the MTR Inquiry opening on missing documents related to the Sha Tin-Central rail link inquiry. 27MAY19 SCMP / K. Y. Cheng

Rebars and connectors photographed during the MTR press conference on the Sha Tin to Central Link at the MTR Headquarters Building, in Kowloon Bay. MTR Corporation revealed that on five occasions between August and December 2015 the operator found that steel bars were cut to make it seems as if they had been screwed correctly into couplers on the platform. 06JUN18 SCMP / Dickson Lee

View of the MTR Shatin to Central Link, Hung Hom Station, Hung Hom. 05DEC18 SCMP / Dickson Lee

News

Hong Kong

Transport

No passengers were on board when the late-night collision happened
The worker has been suspended


No passengers were on board when the late-night collision happened. The worker has been suspended.


Accidents and personal safety in Hong Kong

Transport and logistics

Driver overshoots and hits buffer at Admiralty station on Hong Kong’s MTR network

.css-1mniedq{color:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-size:inherit;font-family:inherit;line-height:inherit;}No passengers were on board when the late-night collision happened The worker has been suspended

No passengers were on board when the late-night collision happened

The worker has been suspended