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Cable hauled trains under Shanghai’s Huangpu River
Shanghai seems to be the China’s home of gadgetbahns – modes of public transportation that are unnecessary complicated. The Shanghai Maglev and the Zhangjiang Tram are two examples, but Shanghai has a third – the cable hauled trains that run […]
Posted in Transport
Tagged cable car, China, Shanghai, The Bund, tourism, tourist trap, tunnels, underground
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Exploring the Shanghai Metro
It’s time for another leg of my journey into ‘Mainland’ China – a tour of the Shanghai Metro. The first line opened in 1993, and is now the largest metro network by route length, as well as one of the […]
Posted in Transport
Tagged China, rail operations, railway, Shanghai, trains, tunnels, underground
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Hong Kong’s road-rail fire trucks
Hong Kong’s Fire Services Department has a diverse fleet of firefighting apparatus that can handle any situation, and today I’m looking at their ‘Road Rail Fire Appliances’. Photo by 廣九直通車, via Wikimedia Commons This pair of fire trucks can operate […] Continue reading
Posted in Everyday Life
Tagged emergency, Fire Services Department, firefighting, Hong Kong, MTR, rail operations, railway, tunnels
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Extending the MTR using a tunnel *dismantling* machine
Normally when building a new underground railway, a tunnel boring machine will be used to excavate the subterranean path for trains to run along. But in the case of the MTR West Island Line project, they needed to do the […]
Posted in Transport
Tagged construction, Mass Transit Railway, MTR, rail operations, television commercials, tunnels, underground, West Island Line
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Hong Kong’s most useless road – Airport Tunnel on Chek Lap Kok
Hong Kong has dozens of road tunnels passing under Victoria Harbour and through the numerous mountain ranges. But there is one road tunnel that is absolutely useless – the Airport Tunnel on Chek Lap Kok. and was built as part […]