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Daily ridership of over 3.8 million people in the MTR,yesterday morning,7 occurred rarely serious accident,Tsuen Wan Line a harbor to Central train,into the Yau Ma Tei station due to overhead wires to break,resulting in Tsuen Wan by the Yau Ma Tei Harbour train services,gold during peak hours 3 hours break,tens of thousands of passengers disrupted; engineers describe the incident rare,estimated to be off the hook wire and lead to overheating or foreign body.
Challenged the Legislative Council,Hong Kong or aging rail system,requiring the Government to establish the accident can be punished MTR scoring system.
MTR to the incident last night,cause not yet been announced,saying only that the overhead lines daily visual inspection every 3 days in one,broken wires in the day before the incident had to check equipment every year for all wires will carry out a large check.
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Secretary for Transport and Housing Eva Cheng said,has asked the MTR-depth and thorough investigation is required to identify causes of accidents,including the external factors are,or maintenance problems.The Transport Department said it has asked the MTR report within 3 days.
7:00 yesterday morning incident,the train entering the station platform during the Yau Ma Tei,drivers found that the roof has a strange sound,the cab display power system problems and tripping of power,the train station platform into the Yau Ma Tei,the arrangements for passengers to get off and notify the control center.Since then,a large number of engineering staff rushed to the MTR,climbed the roof,it was discovered broken on the platform for some overhead lines,the passengers had seen the spark that fire was present alert.
Accident resulted in Yau Ma Tei and Jordan suspended trains between stations,during the train,Tsuen Wan,Yau Ma Tei to 4 minutes per class,Jordan Harbour to Central Trains for 6 minutes,a time when work,school peak hours,an estimated tens of thousands people affected by the emergency repair to 3 hours until the morning of 10 replies.
Sent 60 MTR feeder bus,carrying passengers in Yau Ma Tei and Tsim Sha Tsui to Jordan,but the first class bus about 1 hour after the incident out of many passengers on the bus during the rush,the situation is chaotic.
Engineer:Suspected overheating or foreign body off the hook
Head of Operations of MTR Choy like to apologize for the incident to the affected people,and that broken wires are rare,but acknowledged that similar failures have occurred in the past,he stressed that the MTR has regularly check the cable,and will investigate the cause,after the MTR is the first notice to the feeder bus operators,but the deployment would take time.
MTR spokesman pointed out that over the broken wires in front of the train,the role is to supply to the overhead lines,life of up to several decades,to the wire last night,unknown whether the opening is about 30 years ago is still in use,being also unknown wires break location,proximity to pantograph (the train to take power from the cable device).
Engineers refer to the former president Edmund Leung,the broken wire is solid copper wire,diameter,or a few millimeters thick,may be broken for two reasons:a sudden strong current through the wires caused by overheating of soft and broken; or wires or by pantographs other foreign matter off hook.
Members of the Legislative Council Panel on Transport chi criticized recent spate of large-scale failures of MTR,questioned whether the railway system in aging or poorly maintained,requiring a comprehensive inspection system,MTR,and publicly accountable cause of the accident.He also urged the Government to establish rail accident scoring system,each level of failure at different points,a certain fraction can be penalties incurred MTR