Tag Archives: Kowloon Canton Railway

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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1970s KCR proposal for double deck carriages

Posted on February 7, 2018 by Marcus Wong

For decades the Kowloon–Canton Railway was a quiet single track railway, with a handful of passenger trains heading along the line linking the villages of the New Territories to the urban heart of Kowloon. But the development of the New […]

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Extending the Ma On Shan line from 4 to 8 car trains

Posted on January 24, 2018 by Marcus Wong

Since the Ma On Shan line opened in December 2004 it has operated as a branch line in the New Territories of Hong Kong, connecting to the rest of the network at Tai Wai station. But nothing stays still in […]

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