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Two high-speed trains of the Guangzhou-Shenzhen-Hong Kong Express Rail Link are open for journalists at the Shek Kong depot in Hong Kong on July 9, 2017. were previously shipped to Hong Kong from Qingdao, in Shandong province, where they were manufactured, as the railway tracks were not ready at that time. Currently, a train journey from Kowloon to Guangzhou takes around two hours, but the high-speed model will whisk passengers from West Kowloon to Guangzhou South in 48 minutes, even though it was unlikely to be travelling at its maximum speed of 350km/h. (Dominic Chan/EyePress)

Two high-speed trains of the Guangzhou-Shenzhen-Hong Kong Express Rail Link are open for journalists at the Shek Kong depot in Hong Kong on July 9, 2017. were previously shipped to Hong Kong from Qingdao, in Shandong province, where they were manufactured, as the railway tracks were not ready at that time. Currently, a train journey from Kowloon to Guangzhou takes around two hours, but the high-speed model will whisk passengers from West Kowloon to Guangzhou South in 48 minutes, even though it was unlikely to be travelling at its maximum speed of 350km/h. (Dominic Chan/EyePress)

Two high-speed trains of the Guangzhou-Shenzhen-Hong Kong Express Rail Link are open for journalists at the Shek Kong depot in Hong Kong on July 9, 2017. were previously shipped to Hong Kong from Qingdao, in Shandong province, where they were manufactured, as the railway tracks were not ready at that time. Currently, a train journey from Kowloon to Guangzhou takes around two hours, but the high-speed model will whisk passengers from West Kowloon to Guangzhou South in 48 minutes, even though it was unlikely to be travelling at its maximum speed of 350km/h. (Dominic Chan/EyePress)