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Temporary depot at Mei Foo for the Airport Railway
Building a new railway is a complex operation, involving large quantities of raw materials, and a fleet of heavy construction equipment. All of these need to come from somewhere, which presented difficulties for the MTR when building the Lantau Airport Railway in the 1990s through West Kowloon. The solution – a temporary railway depot at Mei Foo.
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Tagged Airport Railway, Hong Kong, Kowloon, Mass Transit Railway, MTR, property development, rail operations, railway
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Delay certificates on the Hong Kong MTR
An notable aspect of railways in Japan are ‘delay certificates’ – small slips of paper produced by rail operators when a scheduled train doesn’t arrive as timetabled, so that passengers can prove to their superiors at school or work why … Continue reading
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Tagged delays, disruptions, Mass Transit Railway, MTR, rail operations
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Trackwork on the Hong Kong Tramways
When riding the Hong Kong Tramways, I was quite surprised to see how they maintaining their trackwork – by digging them up while trams are still running over the top!
Disneyland Resort Line trains elsewhere on the MTR
For trains on the Disneyland Resort Line the task is pretty simple – shuttle between Sunny Bay and Hong Kong Disneyland all day, with nobody in the driving cab, and the onboard computer doing all of the hard work. But on very rare occasions, they can be seen elsewhere in Hong Kong.
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Tagged Disneyland, Disneyland Resort Line, driverless train, Hong Kong, Mass Transit Railway, MTR, rail operations, railway, trains
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Towing MTR trains with diesel locomotives
On my 2013 visit to Hong Kong I came across an odd sight in the sidings at the MTR West Rail line’s Pat Heung Depot – a SP1900 EMU coupled up to a diesel locomotive. So why was such a train assembled?
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Tagged East Rail, Hong Kong, KCR, Kowloon, Mass Transit Railway, MTR, rail operations, railway, trains, West Rail
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