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Re-starting KCR services after WW2

Submitted by David on Mon, 2019-03-11 17:16

In Cheng Po Hung's book, Hong Kong during the Japanese Occupation, he notes that trains started running again on the KCR line in February 1942, but that by 1944 trains only ran once every two days due to fuel shortages. (I guess that train services would have stopped completely by mid-1945 - has anyone seen this confirmed?)

So when the British returned, one of their jobs was to get the trains running again. They didn't waste any time, and the first train ran on the Sep 29, 1945 ... straight into a brick wall!

KCR Tsim Sha Tsui Station - Cultural Revolution - 1967

Submitted by Chinarail on Fri, 2019-02-22 17:07
Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1967

During the height of the Cultural Revolution in1967 , when disturbances had spread to Hong Kong , KCR railway workers had to contend with through freight trains arriving from the Mainland at Tsim Sha Tsui with their wagons festooned with anti-British slogans. This also included some disturbing additions hanging  down the wagon sides. The slogan daubed on the end of the wagon reads 打 倒英帝 (" Da Dao Yingdi" - equivalent to "Down with British Imperialism" ) 

KCR Railway Workshops

Submitted by Herostratus on Thu, 2018-01-25 14:00
Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1960

See here for more information

Baggage Tag_KCR1980.jpg

Submitted by Klaus on Mon, 2017-01-09 23:16
Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1980

Baggage tag for through train to Guangzhou (without disembarking at Lo Wu). Train ride was on the 8th August, 1980.

KCR under consruction in 1909

Submitted by Klaus on Sun, 2016-06-19 02:31

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
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KCR Railbus.jpg

Submitted by IDJ on Mon, 2015-06-01 16:24
Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1920

A double-end railbus somewhere in the New Territories.

A push-me-pull-you?

1980 KCR train interior (1)

Submitted by Klaus on Fri, 2015-02-27 23:56
Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1980

On board the train to Guangzhou - first class car?

1980 KCR train interior (2)

Submitted by Klaus on Fri, 2015-02-27 23:56
Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1980

During the train ride announcements were made, as far as I remember both in Chinese and English.

Info Public Transport (1980).jpg

Submitted by Klaus on Fri, 2015-02-27 23:56
Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1980

This is an excerpt from the 1980 Hong Kong tourist map. In the text it says that passengers should detrain at the Chinese border and walk across the bridge to catch connecting train in China. However, when we travelled the train went through, and we didn't walk.

KCR clocktower from Salisbury Road (1980)

Submitted by Klaus on Thu, 2015-01-15 17:00
Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1980
Places shown in this photo: 
Clock Tower of KCR Terminus [????- ]

View from Salisbury Road towards former Kowloon railway Station (only clocktower left) and Hong Kong Skyline

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