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Monthly Archives: May 2020
Operating divisions of the MTR rail network
To the everyday passenger Hong Kong’s Mass Transit Railway network comes across as a single system. But from an operational and technology perspective, it is actually a number of smaller systems. One grouping is the “Urban Lines” (URL) or 市區綫 […]
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Tagged Hong Kong, KCR, Kowloon Canton Railway, Mass Transit Railway, MTR, rail operations, railway, trains
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Refurbishing the MTR Phase I Light Rail Vehicles
In 2008 the MTR Corporation accounted the refurbishment of oldest members of the Light Rail fleet – the Comeng-built Phase I Light Rail Vehicles that entered serivce in 1988. The 8 July 2008 media release marking their 20 years of […]
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Tagged Hong Kong, KCR, Kowloon Canton Railway, light rail, Mass Transit Railway, MTR
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