Carriage Door Comes Off, Disrupts MTR Services

MTR services between Wan Chai and Quarry Bay stations were suspended for about three hours on Thursday evening after a train carriage door came off.

The railway operator said the incident, which happened at around 6pm, involved a train at Causeway Bay station bound for Kennedy Town.

There were no reports of injuries.

The MTR Corporation said it believes the carriage door hit parts of an advertising panel in the tunnel that had come loose.

“At the site we saw there are signs of the collision of the door and the advertising panel. We initially suspected that some of the parts of the advertising panel may come into contact with the door sets and caused the incident,” the MTR's operating chief, Sammy Wong, said in a media briefing afterwards.

“Yet this is a very initial assessment of the incident. We have to conduct a more detailed and thorough investigation after we close our traffic.”

He said passengers left the train safely within minutes.

MTR staff carried out emergency repair work and the train was later removed from the tracks.

The incident led to the suspension of train services between Wan Chai and Quarry Bay stations for about three hours, during which free shuttle bus services were offered for those affected.

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