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- Transferring from land to sea at Hong Kong International Airport
- Aircraft registration in China, Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan
- 1970s trip on the pre-electrification Kowloon Canton Railway
- Delivering new trains to Hong Kong’s rail network
- Hidden track connections between MTR lines
- Photos from my 2019 trip to Hong Kong
- Operating divisions of the MTR rail network
- Refurbishing the MTR Phase I Light Rail Vehicles
- Extending West Rail line trains from 7 to 8 cars
- Platform gap fillers on the MTR East Rail line
Monthly Archives: August 2017
Digital art by Josef Bsharah – inspired by Hong Kong?
I recently came across the digital artwork created by Josef Bsharah and thought to myself – I swear this is a photo of the streets of Hong Kong.
Scale model of a MTR works train
Found over at Wikipedia – a scale model of a MTR works train, located in their head office in Kowloon Bay.
Photo by TeaLaiumens, via Wikimedia Commons
Posted in Transport
Tagged Hong Kong, locomotive, maintenance, Mass Transit Railway, MTR, rail operations, railway
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