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Monthly Archives: January 2017
Towing MTR trains with diesel locomotives
On my 2013 visit to Hong Kong I came across an odd sight in the sidings at the MTR West Rail line’s Pat Heung Depot – a SP1900 EMU coupled up to a diesel locomotive. So why was such a train assembled?
Dummy railway track and overhead for training MTR staff
Hong Kong is a busy city and any issue with the rail network that serves it causes massive delays. For this reason heaving well trained staff is critical, but there is one problem – it can’t be safely carried out when trains are running. For this reason a number of short pieces of dummy railway track and overhead have been built across Hong Kong, allow this training to be carried out without danger.
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Tagged Hong Kong, KCR, Kowloon, Mass Transit Railway, MTR, rail operations, railway, trains
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