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Engineering staff at Beacon Hill tunnel on Kowloon Canton Ry 1908

Note on Flickr: Source of Photo: The Far East Review, Sept.

Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1908

KCR (British Section) Kitson 2-6-4 Locomotive

Tai Po Market Station (Kowloon Canton Railway)

Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1979

Parking lot at KCR Terminus

Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1952

Press Photo 240 新闻老照片-罗湖口岸 Lo Wu Control Point 1967

Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1967

KCR under consruction in 1909

For me it looks like narrow-gauge railway tracks. So it could be the Fan Ling-Sha Tau Kok Railway (see http://gwulo.com/hong-kong-railways-ropeways).

Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1909

1950s TST KCR Train Queue

Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1952
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Fragrance Express-KCR pig train

Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1980

Anyone who has lived near the KCR will no doubt be familiar the overpowering smell of the regular pig trains passing by on their way to the unloading point at Homantin under the Princess Margaret Road viaduct to the tunnel. Especially if you happened to be on the platforms of the enclosed Mongkok station. Thankfully they no longer operate into the city. 

Unidentied KCR railway scene

Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1950

Tai Po Kau Station

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Tai Po Kau station 1955.
Screen grab from Bruce Lee's "Orphans Tragedy". View looking north towards Tai Po.
 

Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1955
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