📋 Tender Overview
The Lands Department today January 8 posted notices for the creation of rights of temporary occupation of land in accordance with section 21 of the Railways Ordinance Chapter 519 for the construction of the Northern Link NOL Main Line
Three private lots will be temporarily occupied until January 11 2030 starting from the expiry of a threemonth period from the date of affixing the notices ie April 9 2026 The Government will closely liaise with the relevant land owners and affected parties and properly handle their compensation matters
The Government executed the Part 1 Project Agreement of the NOL Project comprising both the NOL Main Line and the NOL Spur Line with the MTR Corporation Limited MTRCL in July 2025 to commence works on the NOL Main Line that are more ready and timecritical The Government also required the MTRCL to carry out the detailed planning and design of the NOL Spur Line including relevant statutory procedures in parallel The NOL Main Line will become the public transportation backbone for multiple new development areas in the Northern Metropolis and connect the existing Tuen Ma Line and East Rail Line forming a railway loop linking the New Territories and the Kowloon urban area This will substantially enhance the coverage and resilience of the railway network and also unleash the development potential of the Northern Metropolis The NOL Spur Line as a crossboundary bifurcation of the NOL Project would connect the metro networks of Hong Kong and Shenzhen offering both local commuting functions within Hong Kong as well as crossboundary railway services
