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Yearly Archives: 2013
Back from another visit to Hong Kong
It’s taken me three years, but I’ve finally made my way back to Hong Kong, having just returned from a two week visit. I also paid a visit to the mainland, visiting the cities of Shanghai, Beijing and Xian, and travelling between them by high speed train.
Disabled access on the Hong Kong MTR
For a railway network built only a few decades ago, access for disabled people to Hong Kong’s Mass Transit Railway leaves something to be desired. With much of the original network only recently made accessible, why did stairs and escalators rule the system?
Unionised labour and Hong Kong’s Mass Transit Railway
Where are the people who run Hong Kong’s Mass Transit Railway, and are they organised into trade unions? I came across an interesting answer to this question the other day…
Posted in Transport
Tagged Hong Kong, industrial relations, KCR, Kowloon Canton Railway, labour relations, Mass Transit Railway, MTR, rail operations, railway
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Railfanning on the MTR East Rail line
After ‘What should I go and see in Hong Kong?’ the most common question I am asked is ‘Where can I go to take photos of trains in Hong Kong?’. So here is a cleaned up version of an email I sent to a reader some time ago, detailing photography locations along the MTR East Rail Line.
Posted in Transport
Tagged East Rail, KCR, Mass Transit Railway, MTR, New Territories, railfan, railway, trains
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More on the pre-electrification Kowloon Canton Railway
Another great find from YouTube – this time a 30 minute long film containing footage of the KCR during the 1960s and 1970s, in the lead up to the rebuilding and electrification of the line that came in the 1980s.
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Tagged East Rail, history, Hong Kong, KCR, Kowloon Canton Railway, railway, railway archaeology, trains
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