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South China Morning Post
01-08-2025
- Entertainment
- South China Morning Post
20,000 Hongkongers ride Disneyland Resort line as it opens in 2005 – from the SCMP archive
This article was first published on August 2, 2005. Disney isn't open, but 20,000 pay to ride Mickey's caboose By Dennis Eng Advertisement Disneyland has yet to open and they could not buy tickets when they got there – but nearly 20,000 people tried out the train service from Sunny Bay to the theme park on Monday (August 1, 2005). The only glitch came early in the day, when one of the driverless automated trains stopped at the wrong point along the platform of the Disneyland Resort station at 8am, leaving it out of alignment with the platform screen doors and delaying passengers for two minutes. The MTR's head of operations, Wilfred Lau Cheuk-man, played down the incident, saying that the six weeks left until the park's opening gave time to work out 'a few teething problems'. Part-time female 'customer service ambassadors' were on hand at both stations to assist passengers and answer any questions. Children excitedly look through a Mickey Mouse-shaped window on a Disneyland Resort line train on August 1, 2005. Photo: Dustin Shum By 8pm, 18,500 passengers had used the line, which will be able to carry 10,800 passengers an hour when the park opens on September 12.
BBC News
16-07-2025
- Business
- BBC News
Direct East Sussex-London train to be reinstated
A rail link between two East Sussex towns and London discontinued during the pandemic is being brought back, a train company has announced. Govia Thameslink Railway said from December a direct train will run in the morning between Eastbourne, Lewes and London Bridge and return in the evening, after calls by service, which will run Monday to Thursday, is set to make commuting to the capital "much easier", the rail operator said. Eastbourne MP Josh Babarinde - making the announcement alongside Thamelink - said he had campaigned for direct train service to be restored following its withdrawal in 2020. The Liberal Democrat, who took a giant ticket-shaped petition to Eastbourne station while campaigning, said the change would have a "positive impact" on the town."This is a huge victory," he added. Thameslink said the Covid pandemic had had a "devastating impact" on the rail industry. Jenny Saunders, Thameslink customer services director, said the company was doing everything it could do to encourage people back to using rail services, which it called the "most sustainable form of public transport". The new Monday to Thursday service will depart from Eastbourne at 06:48, arriving at London Bridge for 08:25. The return service will leave London Bridge at 17:03 and reach Eastbourne at 18:34.
