West Island Line trackwork complete

Engineers in Hong Kong have completed the trackwork for the 3-kilometre West Island Line.

The line, which will connect Kennedy Town in the west with Sheung Wan station in the north west of Hong Kong Island, is around 80 per cent complete and still on course to open in 2014.

MTR chief executive Jay Walder went underground on September 8 for a ceremony to celebrate the milestone.

Tunnelling work began on the West Island line in 2009 and in just over a year, the trackwork has now been completed.

Major civils works should be finished by the end of the year.




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