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A train on the Mass Transit Railway (MTR) approaches Kowloon
Bay station, on the Kwun Tong line, on 3 May 1988. The MTR
runs mainly underground, linking Hong Kong Island with Kowloon on
the mainland, and has been extended to serve the new airport at
Chek Lap Kok and Tung Chung on Lantau Island. |
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The Kowloon - Canton Railway Corporation oparates a frequent
suburban service on the line northwards from Kowloon to the
border with "mainland" China at Lo Wu. The picture
shows a KCR train approaching Shatin station with a northbound
service on 30 September 2000. |
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Hong Kong is now a Special Administrative Region of China,
but border controls remain in place and cross-border trains are
relatively infrequent compared with services internal to Hong
Kong. DongFeng42170 heads the 9.16
Zhaoqing (Guangdong Province) to Kowloon through Kowloon Tong
station on 30 September 2000. (Dong Feng means "East
Wind") |
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Another Chinese through train, the 15.50 Guangzhou Dong to
Kowloon, approaches Shatin station behind China Railways
locomotive SS80064, on 30 September
2000. |
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