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Charts and plans for Kai Tak Airport

Posted on July 24, 2019 by Marcus Wong

Kai Tak Airport was once the international airport for Hong Kong, with the single runway and eight jetbridges somehow handing 30 million passengers and 1.5 million tonnes of freight per year, before it was replaced by the current Hong Kong […]

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Hong Kong’s Peak Tram and the abandoned station

Posted on June 12, 2019 by Marcus Wong

On the way up to Victoria Peak on the Peak Tram there are four intermediate stations that trains seldom stop at, due to a lack of passengers. But there is also a fifth station that no longer exists – Bowen […]

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MTR train cliffhanger?

Posted on June 28, 2017 by Marcus Wong

Browsing the South China Morning Post website recently I came across a strange sight – what looked to be a MTR train overhanging a building!

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Closure of Kai Tak Airport and the transfer to Chek Lap Kok

Posted on December 28, 2016 by Marcus Wong

The closure of Hong Kong’s Kai Tak Airport in 1998 and the overnight switch to the new airport at Chek Lap Kok always intrigued me – how did they manage such a massive move?

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Farewelling the first generation MTR trains

Posted on November 30, 2016 by Marcus Wong

The first trains ran on Hong Kong’s MTR network way back in 1979, and almost forty years later these trains still remain in service, albeit having been refurbished and upgraded a number of times.

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