Yearly Archives: 2020

Firefighters and a fake MTR station

Posted on April 1, 2020 by Marcus Wong

Near the Hong Kong district of Tseung Kwan O is a MTR stop that you can’t catch a train to – Pak Shing Kok station at the Fire and Ambulance Services Academy. Photo by Exploringlife, via Wikimedia Commons When the […]

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A fire door for trains in the Tai Lam tunnel

Posted on March 18, 2020 by Marcus Wong

I’ve written about the heavy steel gates used to protect the MTR cross harbour tunnels from flooding – but how about even bigger sets of gates used to protect them from fire? The longest railway tunnel in Hong Kong is […]

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Flood gates inside the MTR cross harbour tunnels

Posted on March 4, 2020 by Marcus Wong

MTR trains passes beneath Hong Kong’s Victoria Harbour through four immersed tube tunnels – but should one of these tunnels be breached, massive flood gates are ready to be deployed, to protect the rest of the network. They hide inside […]

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A history of MTR train control centres

Posted on February 19, 2020 by Marcus Wong

The MTR network has grown since the first train ran in 1979, and so has the systems used to control the network. The initial MTR system In 1979 the first part of the Mass Transit Railway system opened, between Kwun […]

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Fire training simulator at Hong Kong Airport

Posted on February 5, 2020 by Marcus Wong

Hong Kong International Airport is located on the island of Chek Lap Kok, with the 12.48 square kilometres covered with everything needs to support operations at one of the world’s busiest airports – including a fire training simulator. Two fire […]

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