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Tag Archives: rail operations
Navigating the gates at MTR/KCR interchange stations
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.
Fixing a power failure on the MTR
On my recent visit to Hong Kong I was travelling by train on the Tung Chung Line when a power failure stopped trains. But how long did it take to fix? 4:20pm – power failure detected delaying services. 1620 Major […]
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Tagged Hong Kong, maintenance, Mass Transit Railway, MTR, rail operations, railway, Tung Chung Line
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Travelling the ‘wrong’ way down the East Rail Line
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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Tagged East Rail, Hong Kong, KCR, Kowloon Canton Railway, Mass Transit Railway, MTR, rail operations
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Flood doors at MTR station entrances
You will find MTR station entrances all across Hong Kong – but there is one important thing that all of these have in common – a way to keep floodwaters out. When entrances reach ground level, whether in the middle […]
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Tagged Hong Kong, Mass Transit Railway, MTR, mystery, rail operations
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1970s KCR proposal for double deck carriages
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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Tagged Australia, Comeng, double decker, East Rail, Hong Kong, KCR, Kowloon Canton Railway, New Territories, rail operations
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