Passengers made 30 million trips in 2025 with Hong Kong’s high-speed rail line
MTR Corporation also says cumulative patronage since service launch in September 2018 recently surpassed 100 million passenger journeys
Passengers made more than 30 million trips using Hong Kong’s cross-border high-speed rail link last year, with the figure representing a 17 per cent increase from 2024 and setting a record.
The MTR Corporation also revealed on Sunday that the West Kowloon rail terminus set a new single-day ridership record on December 27, when the number of passenger trips reached about 140,000.
The company also described last year’s usage figure as a “record high”, while noting that cumulative patronage since the service launched in September 2018 had recently surpassed 100 million passenger journeys.
“Currently, the majority of [high-speed rail] passengers are short-haul travellers, accounting for approximately 80 per cent of the total,” the company said.
“The proportion of Hong Kong residents [using the service] has steadily increased from about 30 per cent initially to approximately 45 per cent.”
It added that mainland Chinese and overseas travellers accounted for the rest of the figure.