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hunghom pier from air 1980.png

hunghom pier from air 1980.png
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The Hunghom-Central pier was active with a star ferry boat and buses were going up from Gilles road to the train station which opened end of 1975. The Hunghom bay center was not yet built. Therefore  the picture was taken between 1976 and 1978.

Date picture taken (may be approximate): 
Tuesday, January 1, 1980

Comments

The pedestrian footbridge over the rail tracks was probably just an artist's impression - the supporting columns had never been in Y-shape. I studied in the then HK Polytechnic 1971-74 and had watched the building of the cross harbour tunnel and Hung Hom Station.

I am a little surprised it is not an actual photograph. But the picture above was taken around 1978. There is another picture here around 1990  which shows the same bridge with the same supporting columns.

https://gwulo.com/atom/41549/zoom

And another 1979 one posted not by me:

https://gwulo.com/atom/15937

Thanks simtang, for the two additional photos.  It looks to me the centre span was supported by two vertical columns, and the other supports were of Y-shape but more likely V-shape design.  Regards,  Peter

Thanks for the clarifications. That bridge wsa a genuine picture, not an artisrt's impression as I thought. I mistook that for the one over the vehicular road leading to the tunnel.

It may be useful to compare it with  picture taken during the 1968 industrial expo at hunghom.

That part of reclaimed land was usually empty before and after the exposition. That building at the corner where the coastline changes direction already existed in 1968. Quite a number of years before the footbridges and railroad tracks were built.

The industrial expo took place there from 1963 to 1969 every year in winter.

 

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1968 hunghom.jpg
1968 hunghom.jpg, by simtang

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