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Extending West Rail line trains from 7 to 8 cars

Posted on April 29, 2020 by Marcus Wong

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 […]

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Platform gap fillers on the MTR East Rail line

Posted on April 15, 2020 by Marcus Wong

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 […]

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A fire door for trains in the Tai Lam tunnel

Posted on March 18, 2020 by Marcus Wong

I’ve written about the heavy steel gates used to protect the MTR cross harbour tunnels from flooding – but how about even bigger sets of gates used to protect them from fire? The longest railway tunnel in Hong Kong is […]

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A history of MTR train control centres

Posted on February 19, 2020 by Marcus Wong

The MTR network has grown since the first train ran in 1979, and so has the systems used to control the network. The initial MTR system In 1979 the first part of the Mass Transit Railway system opened, between Kwun […]

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MTR CKD0A diesel electric locomotives

Posted on December 25, 2019 by Marcus Wong

The list of diesel locomotives in Hong Kong keeps on growing now that I’m digging into the MTR maintenances and work train fleet – the latest entry is the Chinese built CKD0A diesel electric locomotives. The units were ordered in […]

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