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  "id": 3953687,
  "title": "MTR Corp to deploy a world-first use of skidding method for Hung Shui Kiu station",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/28/mtr-corp-to-deploy-a-world-first-use-of-skidding-method-for-hung-shui-3953687",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-08-28T11:21:18.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "South China Morning Post - Hong Kong",
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    "url": "https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/transport/article/3365627/mtr-corp-deploy-world-first-use-skidding-method-hung-shui-kiu-station"
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  "summary": "Hong Kong’s rail operator will use a skidding method – the first worldwide for a heavy-rail project – to build Hung Shui Kiu station, helping to overcome time constraints and ensure completion by 2030. The MTR Corporation said on Friday that the station structures, each weighing about 10,000 tonnes, would be assembled from prefabricated components at worksites on either side of an operational…",
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      {
        "outlet": "RTHK News",
        "title": "MTR to use 'skidding construction' for Hung Shui Kiu",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/28/mtr-to-use-skidding-construction-for-hung-shui-kiu",
        "published": "2026-08-28T04:53:03.000Z"
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      {
        "outlet": "South China Morning Post",
        "title": "MTR Corp to deploy a world-first use of skidding method for Hung Shui Kiu station",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/28/mtr-corp-to-deploy-a-world-first-use-of-skidding-method-for-hung-shui",
        "published": "2026-08-28T11:21:18.000Z"
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