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1954 KCR Train at Tai Po Market Station

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1954 KCR Train at Tai Po Market Station
Submitted by moddsey. View the original image on Flickr.
Authors: 
Eternal1966

Locomotive No. 51 'Sir Alexander' at Tai Po Market Station

Date picture taken (may be approximate): 
Friday, January 1, 1954
Gallery: 
1950s Hong Kong
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Submitted by pepepeterleo on Fri, 2016-08-05 21:08.

This KCR station is definitely not Yau Ma Tei (or Mong Kok).  This was the old Tai Po Market station, now the location of the Railway Museum. I know both the Yau Ma Tei and TPM stations well as I used to commute regularly between the two stations to my school in Kowloon. The YMT station has a curvature whereas the (old) TPM station tracks are dead straight.  This station area was one of my regular haunts – I used to fly kites on the headland near the locality.  See the sheltered waiting area on the left of the picture ?  You can see a narrow path behind it.  If you walked up that path in those days you could go up a small hill to look over the whole town, all 12 -15 streets in all of Tai Po Market!   

Submitted by pepepeterleo on Sat, 2016-08-06 03:57.

Similar view of the station from Andrew Suddaby's 1959 collection

http://gwulo.com/atom/22175

Submitted by moddsey on Sat, 2016-08-06 06:57.

I forgot about the curvature of the tracks at Yau Ma Tei. Thanks and amended.