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Yearly Archives: 2020
Photos from my 2019 trip to Hong Kong
It has taken me a bit over a year, but I have finally finished uploading the photographs I took on my 2019 trip to Hong Kong. My itinerary. Day 1: arrival and Airport Express train Day 2: Wong Tai Sin […]
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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Extending West Rail line trains from 7 to 8 cars
Hong Kong’s rail network is being transformed by the Shatin to Central Link project, with one of those changes being the expansion of trains on the West Rail line from 7 to 8 cars. Some history The story of West […]
Platform gap fillers on the MTR East Rail line
The East Rail line has the widest gaps between train and platform on the MTR network, the route having opened to passengers in 1910 as the Kowloon-Canton Railway. In the years that followed and the system modernised, with attempts made […]