Tag Archives: Hong Kong

United Group Rail in Hong Kong

United Group is an Australian rail engineering company, which has been involved in the Hong Kong market for a quarter century. The most noticeable project was the modernisation of the MTR Metro-Cammel ‘M-Train’ EMU fleet in 1999-2001. But they were […]

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My miniature slice of Hong Kong

In case you haven’t noticed, I’ve been a little slack on updates to this side, and this is the reason – crafting a miniature version of Hong Kong from my home in Australia! My 1:160 scale slice of Hong Kong […]

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Testing the MTR Urban Lines Vision Train in Mainland China

The newest trains on the MTR network as the ‘Urban Lines Vision Train’ which entered service in November 2022 on the Kwun Tong Line. However that isn’t the only place they have been spotted – they’ve also appeared on the […]

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Trailer cars on the MTR Light Rail

Out in the New Territories of Hong Kong the MTR Light Rail system operates a relatively homogeneous fleet of light rail vehicles, split up into five ‘Phases’ delivered between 1988 and 2022. But there is one oddity in the fleet […]

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The return of cross-boundary freight trains to Hong Kong

The COVID-19 pandemic has changed the world greatly in the past few years, and in March 2022 it saw the return of something gone for a decade – freight trains between Hong Kong and China. Hong Kong Government photo The […]

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