Tag Archives: Kowloon Canton Railway

Navigating the gates at MTR/KCR interchange stations

Posted on May 15, 2019 by Marcus Wong

Until 2007 Hong Kong’s rail network was managed by two separate operators – the MTR Corporation that run the predominately underground network, and the Kowloon–Canton Railway Corporation that ran the above ground lines. A side effect of this was two separate fare structures, and a peculiar situation at one interchange station – ‘double sided’ ticket gates.

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Hong Kong’s ghost station at Kwu Tung

Posted on April 17, 2019 by Marcus Wong

Since the 1970s the Mass Transit Railway network has expanded to cover much of Hong Kong, but at Kwu Tung in the northern New Territories there is something different – a ghost station that has no trains stopping at it. […]

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Travelling the ‘wrong’ way down the East Rail Line

Posted on September 19, 2018 by Marcus Wong

Given the British influence on Hong Kong road and rail have one thing in common – traffic runs to the left. However for trains this isn’t always so, as this video shows. Filmed at University Station, we see a southbound […]

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Hong Kong transport by the brush of Kong Kai Ming

Posted on May 30, 2018 by Marcus Wong

Back in 2016 something at Hong Kong International Airport caught my eye – a wall covered with incredibly detailed sketches of Hong Kong streets, with transport front and centre. Buses at Aberdeen. A road tunnel at To Kwa Wan. A […]

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Finding the last KCR ‘Yellow Head’ train

Posted on March 7, 2018 by Marcus Wong

For almost two decades, the mainstay of the Kowloon Canton Railway was their fleet of Metro Cammell EMUs, nicknamed ‘Yellow Head’ (黃頭) for the colour of their driving cabs. Photo by Joseph K.K. Lee / gakei.com As originally built, each […]

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