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The first mode of rail transport for the public in Hong Kong was the Peak Tram, serving The Peak (at Victoria Gap), the Mid-Levels and the city centre since 1888. This was followed by the Mount Parker Cable Car in 1892, but this system was terminated in 1932 and dismantled.
The light rail will go around Tung Chung, the airport and the Hong Kong–Zhuhai–Macau Bridge and will take only 15 minutes to make the trip, opposed to the 45 minute bus ride along a small, winding road from Tung Chung or Mui Wo. The estimated cost of this proposal is HK$15 billion.
Hong Kong held a vital position in protecting British trading interests in South China. The idea of connecting Hong Kong and China with a railway was first proposed to prominent Hong Kong businessmen in March 1864 by a British railway engineer, Sir Rowland MacDonald Stephenson, who had considerable experience of developing railways in India.
The Kowloon-Canton Railway Corporation (KCRC; Chinese: 九廣鐵路公司) is a Hong Kong wholly government-owned railway and land asset manager. [1] It was established in 1982 under the Kowloon-Canton Railway Corporation Ordinance for the purposes of operating the Kowloon–Canton Railway (KCR), and to construct and operate other new railways.
Two workers changing the sign at East Tsim Sha Tsui station after the merger Ticket gates at key interchange stations were removed one year after the merger. On 2 December 2007, the two major railway companies in Hong Kong, the Kowloon-Canton Railway Corporation, which operated the Kowloon-Canton Railway, and the MTR Corporation, which operated the MTR, merged their operations.
The MTR CRRC Changchun EMU (also known as the TML C-train [a]) is a model of heavy rail electric multiple units of the Mass Transit Railway in Hong Kong.The 8-car sets are manufactured by Changchun Railway Vehicles for the East West Corridor (Tuen Ma Line), to operate alongside extended SP1900 sets (1151) from the West Rail line.
The Clock Tower in Tsim Sha Tsui is a famous landmark of Kowloon.. Kowloon station (Chinese: 九龍車站), colliquially Old Tsim Sha Tsui Terminal, located in Tsim Sha Tsui on the present site of the Hong Kong Cultural Centre, was the former southern terminus of the Kowloon–Canton Railway (KCR).
On 23 September 2018, West Kowloon station and the Hong Kong section of the XRL began commercial operations. MTR-0252 brought the first passengers (including reporters) from West Kowloon station to Shenzhen North station. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Hong Kong government suspended all high-speed rail services from 30 January 2020.