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- Delivering new trains to Hong Kong’s rail network
- Hidden track connections between MTR lines
- Photos from my 2019 trip to Hong Kong
- Operating divisions of the MTR rail network
- Refurbishing the MTR Phase I Light Rail Vehicles
- Extending West Rail line trains from 7 to 8 cars
- Platform gap fillers on the MTR East Rail line
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Tag Archives: MTR
Delivering new trains to Hong Kong’s rail network
Hong Kong doesn’t build their own rail vehicles, so they need to be imported from overseas. But how do they arrive? Off the boat Trains for the pre-merger KCR network have historically been unloaded at the wharf at Hung Hom, […]
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Tagged Hong Kong, KCR, Kowloon Canton Railway, Mass Transit Railway, MTR, rail operations, railway, trains
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Hidden track connections between MTR lines
Thanks to the sheer size of the network, travelling from one side of Hong Kong to another on the MTR usually involves a change of train somewhere along the way. But what if it was possible to stay on one train the entire way? This is actually possible – but with a number of caveats.
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Tagged Hong Kong, interchange stations, KCR, Kowloon Canton Railway, maintenance, Mass Transit Railway, MTR, mystery, rail operations, railway, trains
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Operating divisions of the MTR rail network
To the everyday passenger Hong Kong’s Mass Transit Railway network comes across as a single system. But from an operational and technology perspective, it is actually a number of smaller systems. One grouping is the “Urban Lines” (URL) or 市區綫 […]
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Tagged Hong Kong, KCR, Kowloon Canton Railway, Mass Transit Railway, MTR, rail operations, railway, trains
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Refurbishing the MTR Phase I Light Rail Vehicles
In 2008 the MTR Corporation accounted the refurbishment of oldest members of the Light Rail fleet – the Comeng-built Phase I Light Rail Vehicles that entered serivce in 1988. The 8 July 2008 media release marking their 20 years of […]
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Tagged Hong Kong, KCR, Kowloon Canton Railway, light rail, Mass Transit Railway, MTR
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Extending West Rail line trains from 7 to 8 cars
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 […]