- Support Checkerboard Hill on Patreon!
Subscribe via email
Join 380 other subscribersTags
advertising Australia aviation Beijing buses China China Railways construction depots driving East Rail freeways history Hong Kong Hong Kong International Airport KCR Kowloon Kowloon Canton Railway Lantau Island light rail line guide locomotive Macau mainland maintenance Mass Transit Railway MTR mystery New Territories Octopus card on the road on the water Outlying Islands rail operations railway railway signalling Shanghai Shatin to Central Link television commercials tourist trap trains trams tunnels underground Victoria Harbour
Archives
Recent Posts
- Trailer cars on the MTR Light Rail
- The return of cross-boundary freight trains to Hong Kong
- When Hongkong Post rode the rails to China
- Coupling new and old on the East Rail line
- MTR JMD1200FX diesel electric locomotives
- Hong Kong taxi on the streets of Toronto
- Farewell to the MTR Phase 2 Light Rail Vehicles
- KCR ‘Yellow Head’ trains at the MTR Kowloon Bay Depot
- Building Telford Gardens atop the MTR depot at Kowloon Bay
- Traverser and a turntable at Kowloon Bay Depot
Monthly Archives: April 2021
25 kV AC railway electrification in Hong Kong
Hong Kong MTR uses electric trains, powered by two different technologies – 1500 V DC on the ‘urban’ rail lines, and 25 kV AC for the former KCR network. Today we look at 25 kV AC railway electrification across Hong […]
Posted in Transport
Tagged East Rail, Hong Kong, KCR, Kowloon Canton Railway, rail operations, railway, railway electrification
4 Comments
Powering the MTR Light Rail network
The MTR Light Rail system in Hong Kong comprises of 68 stations on 36.2 km of route, served by 150 light rail vehicles. But how are they all powered? How it works The system is electrified using 750V DC overhead […]