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Historic photograph of Fanling train station @ Hong Kong Railway Museum

Submitted by Klaus on Sun, 2022-04-24 01:10

Also shows a train on the Sha Tau Kok extension railway.

Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1914
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train station
Fanling
kcr

1967 Hunghom new land

Submitted by Klaus on Mon, 2022-04-18 03:25

aerial view of the KCR turntable and a fair on reclaimed land.

Not sure about the date, the buildings on this photo look different to the ones of the 1968 fair.

Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1967
Tags: 
aerial photographs
hung hom
kcr

TST map 1922_KCR

Submitted by Klaus on Fri, 2022-02-25 00:03
Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1922

The map shows the "Railway from KCR terminus to Kowloon Wharves [c.1934-c.1956]". Looks as if the tracks were in use earlier than 1934.

Tai Po Kau Station 1985

Submitted by Klaus on Tue, 2022-01-04 21:45
Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1985
Tags: 
kcr
station
Tai Po

KCR clock tower... under restoration

Submitted by joybot on Tue, 2021-10-05 17:57

The KCR clock tower in Tsim Sha Tsui, under scaffolding.

13 February 2001. Taken with an Olympus C1000-L digital camera.

Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
2001
Tags: 
clock
tower
kcr
Tsim Sha Tsui
scaffolding
restoration
renovation
尖沙咀
kowloon
九龍
2001
尖沙咀鐘樓
鐘樓

Kowloon Godowns/Temporary Railway Station [c.1904-c.1920]

Submitted by Klaus on Sun, 2021-08-29 00:51
Date Place completed: 
c.1904-01-01 (Year, Month, Day are approximate)
Date Place demolished: 
c.1920-01-01 (Year, Month, Day are approximate)

Built on Kowloon Marine Lot 74. In about 1904, when the reclamation at Kowloon Point was finished, the Hong Kong & Kowloon Wharf & Godown Company built a twin-gabled godown on this lot.

Tags: 
godown
kcr
KCR Station

KCR-Taipo Belle over 60 mph on trial run

Submitted by IDJ on Tue, 2020-12-01 21:43
Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1936

This HK Telegraph report gives more details about the vehicle than the other newspapers.

Poster-KCR-steam-locomotive-K2-project-not-what it seems to be

Submitted by IDJ on Thu, 2020-11-12 19:14
Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
2018

Not what it seems to be

A derivation of this image appeared as posters on the pavement-side wooden walls around the K2 construction site at Tsim Sha Tsui in 2018.

Hung Hom-KCR tracks to dockyard via Baker Street-bottom left -behind the bus

Submitted by IDJ on Tue, 2020-11-03 22:37
Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1958

The faint railway tracks on the road to the dockyard heading down Baker Street can just be seen in the image.

ZOOM in-Just behind the bus and car.

Rail Dump Car used for transporting fill to the Hung Hom Bay Reclamation

Submitted by Chinarail on Sat, 2020-08-29 10:51
Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1909

Dump Car utilized for the Hung Hom Bay Reclamation in 1909. A huge tract of land was being formed for the Kolwoon-Canton Railway's tracks, the Kowloon terminus as well as siding and a depot

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