The Sheung Shui to Lok Ma Chau (LMC) Spur Line was commissioned on 15 August 2007. The 7.4 km long LMC Spur Line is the second cross-boundary railway between Hong Kong and Shenzhen. It helps to relieve the congestion at other land boundary crossings and cater for the increasing cross-boundary traffic demand. For more information, please <click here>.

REGISTRATION FORM

To visit LMC spur line which is Frontier Closed Area, all visitors must hold Closed Area Permit from The Hong Kong Police Force. Please submit (1) the completed registration form and (2) copy of Hong Kong Identity card or copy of passport to Ms. Connie Lam, Hong Kong Society for Transportation Studies Limited, c/o Department of Civil and Structural Engineering, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hunghom, Kowloon, Hong Kong. Fax: (852) 2334-6389, Email: secretary@isttt18.org by 8 July 2009. The organizers will apply Closed Area Permit for all visitors. Visitors without the Closed Area Permit are not allowed to visit LMC spur line. Please click here to download the <registration form> for this technical tour.

NOTES

* All technical tours are subject to change, upon further confirmation by the hosts. 

* Participants to ISTTT18 who are flexible with their travel schedules are invited to consider also the technical tours in the CASPT09 conference which will be held on 21 July 2009 (Tuesday) afternoon. For details and registration, please kindly refer to www.caspt09.org.