The ornate Tai Po Market station building, which today serves as Hong Kong's Railway Museum, was not completed until 1913, two years after the railway had opened. For the first two years British soldiers encamped up in the New Territories had to make do with a mat-shed station to shelter from the sun and rain.
Get Gwulo's books
Directory
Click on your area of interest to choose from over 30,000 pages about old Hong Kong:
- Images & photos
- View - View galleries - View new - Create - Forum topics
- View - Create - Places & buildings
- View map - View new - Create - Streets
- View map - View new - Create - People
- View - View new - Create - Organisations
- View all - View new - Create - Diaries & memoirs
- View - View new - Create diary - Create page - Events
- View - View new - Create - Jurors lists
- View - Type a page
Or choose a popular article:
Comments
Tai Po Market Station original building
Thanks Chinarail. Some could be also in this photo - https://gwulo.com/atom/30374 . Regards, Peter