The MTR Turns 45: What’s Left of the KCR?
Hong Kong’s very first railway company ceased to exist in 2007, but there are remnants if you know where to look...
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The MTR Turns 45: Mosaic Tiles, Chinese Script and a Railway to Remember
How the MTR’s first design team created a distinct visual identity that endures today...
The MTR Turns 45: The Mystery of ⵣ
Why is the Hong Kong MTR’s logo identical to the national symbol of the Berber people?...
The MTR Turns 45: How It All Began
How Hong Kong's renowned metro system came to be, thanks to savvy engineering and a few visionary people...
Hong Kong Collectors: 120 Years of Trams
As Hong Kong Tramways celebrates its 120th anniversary, we meet the collectors who are interested in everything tram-related...
Hong Kong’s Other Tram: Light Rail in the New Territories
Essential but unloved, the light rail is a ticket to a whole other side of Hong Kong...
Hong Kong’s Train to China: A Brief History of the Kowloon-Canton Railway
As Hong Kong opens its new high-speed rail link to mainland China, we look back at its original cross-border railway....
Ding Ding Stories: Who is Riding Hong Kong’s Trams?
Hong Kong's oldest form of transport may not be its fastest, but its daily commuters value it for something else. ...
Forgotten Hong Kong Icon: Brain Surgery on a Tram
For 20 years, Cheung Kwan-ming has worked as an electrician for Hong Kong Tramways, keeping the "brain" of the trams in good working order....
In Pictures: The Depot Where Hong Kong’s Historic Trams Are Being Rebuilt by Hand
Inside the Whitty Street Depot, Hong Kong's fleet of unique double-decker trams are being completely rebuilt for a new generation....
Waterworld: A Short History of Ferries, Kaitos and Walla-Wallas in Hong Kong
Hong Kong has gotten around by ferry for more than a hundred years – but for how much longer?...
The Kowloon Tramway That Never Was
Why aren't there any trams in Kowloon?...
Art Month Installations: Kingsley Ng Turns a Tram Into a Roving Camera Obscura
Kingsley Ng’s mobile artwork uses light to draw attention to what we can’t see in a world of change and cacophony....
The MTR’s New Look – Community Art on the South Island Line
The MTR's new South Island Line boasts an art collection – part of the MTR's ongoing effort to give Hong Kong's rapid transit system more personality....
Slow Hong Kong: The Speedy Minibus
Hong Kong's minibuses offer a strange mix of intimacy and speed. ...
Slow Hong Kong: A Journey by Tram
A fresh look at Hong Kong's urban poetry ...
Slow Hong Kong: In the Wake of the Star Ferry
A fresh look at Hong Kong's urban poetry...