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Yearly Archives: 2018
Building the Shatin to Central Link tunnels at Shek O
On my 2016 trip to Hong Kong I headed to the beach at Shek O and found something odd along the way – a sign for the MTR’s new Shatin to Central Link railway project, despite the nearest piece of track being on the opposite side of Hong Kong Island. So what was the deal?
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Tagged construction, Hong Kong, Mass Transit Railway, MTR, Sha Tin to Central Link, Shek O, tunnels, Victoria Harbour
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A nostalgic return for Hong Kong’s cross harbour car ferries
In such a fast paced city, finding pieces of ‘Old Hong Kong’ is difficult. But back in 2016 the Hongkong and Yaumati Ferry company launched something interesting – a return of Hong Kong’s cross harbour car ferries, to celebrate the […]
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Tagged ferries, Hong Kong, nostalgia, on the water, vehicular ferries, Victoria Harbour
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Travelling the ‘wrong’ way down the East Rail Line
Given the British influence on Hong Kong road and rail have one thing in common – traffic runs to the left. However for trains this isn’t always so, as this video shows. Filmed at University Station, we see a southbound […]
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Tagged East Rail, Hong Kong, KCR, Kowloon Canton Railway, Mass Transit Railway, MTR, rail operations
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An Australian ship in Hong Kong
Hong Kong has been the home of the busiest container port in the world for many years, seeing vessels from many countries. Here we see the Australian National Line’s “Australian Enterprise” underway on Victoria Harbour, with a 1970s Hong Kong […]
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Tagged Australia, Hong Kong, maritime, on the water, Port of Hong Kong
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The Hong Kong ferry that came to Australia
This is the story of a Hong Kong vehicular ferry called 民安（Man On）that once carried cars across Victoria Harbour, but ended up reconnecting the Australia city of Hobart. Photo by John Craike; via the Maritime Museum of Tasmania collection Double […]
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Tagged Australia, ferries, Hong Kong, maritime, on the water, Tasmania, vehicular ferries, Victoria Harbour
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