Hong Kong Railway Society

2001/3/23 - The first 8 cars of new KCR East Rail Rolling stocks have arrived Hunghom pier today. KCR ordered 250 cars from Itochu-Kinki-Kawasaki Consortium and 96 of them will work on East Rail with the remaining at West Rail.

2001/3/20 - "KCR East Rail Passenger Fun Day": KCRC Ho Tung Lau Maintenance Centre (Fo Tan Station) will be opened for public on April 1, 2001 (Sunday). Activities include East Rail Control Room and workshop tours, demostration on train wash, game stalls, clown performance, magic shows etc. Admission ticket is required for entry.

2001/2/22 - various sources suggested the new KCR East Rail stocks (from Kawasaki, Japan) will be arriving Hong Kong around late March/early April.

2001/1/19 - In the current issue of Hong Kong Government Gazette, an announcement is made on replacing the 50 year old Lo Wu Rail Bridge linking Hong Kong and Mainland China.

2001/1/14 - An exhibition on "Lifelife Express" will be taken place at Shatin KCR Station Freight Yard between 10 and 12 February. Apart from open to the public for a glimpse of the train. Free operations will be carried out to 55 Hong Kongers who suffered from eye related diseases.

Thrilling drilling: guests in hard-hats attend the breakthrough ceremony for the KCR West Rail Kwai Tsing Tunnel yesterday at Kwai Chung. The tunnel will run from Mei Foo to Tsuen Wan. Picture by Wan Kam-yan (Source: South China Morning Post)

2000/12/13 - MTR increasing services amid rise in demand

2000/11/15 - KCRC releases a HO scale (1:87) LRV model. The vehicle number is 1028 and in original orange/silver livery. The release of this model symbolises the completion of LRT fleet livery change (from orange/silver to blue/red).

2000/11/7 - Railway Development Strategy 2000 Exhibition

Photos on exhibitions are supplied by Mr K.S. Lee.

2000/10/24 - A refurbished tram is now into trial service. Another 3 (including one with air-cond.) will also enter trial service end of this year. A full article in Chinese and new tram pictures are here.

2000/10/18 - Editorial: We would pay price for protecting environment

2000/10/17 - Green derail $7b KCRC Line

2000/10/9 - Greens spurred into action on rail link

News on China Railways:

2002/11/3

Opening of China Railway Museum in Beijing.

2002/10/18

China Railway Museum will be opened on 1 November 2002 at Beijing. Click here for anyone who would like to participate the opening ceremony. (Thanks to Sichuan railway enthusiasts web www.hasea.com for supplying the information)

2000/5/13 - HO scale (1:87) SS8 0038 model locomotive is now available on the market. This model is painted with text of Jing Ju Zhuang Duan ( Beijing Beareau - Shi Jia Zhuang Section ).

2001/3/1 - Meikan (Meizhou, Guangdong Province - Kanshi, Fujian Province) Line is now opened for passenger service. Timetable can be found here.

2001/1/23 - German Maglev to be built at Shanghai

2001/1/8 - Although news earlier suggested "Lanjian" will operate a 55 min Guangzhou Dong-Shenzhen service, it did not happen on January 8. News today suggest "Lanjian" will not operate at a 55 min journey time until March. At the moment, "Lanjian" travels between Guangzhou Dong and Shenzhen in 60 mins on some services and 65 mins on others. No explanation was announced about the delay in speed up progress. Note Swedish X-2000 operates such routes in 55 mins.

2001/1/7 - After the release of DF11 1:87 (HO scale) model. 2-10-2 Qianjin is the next model to be offered on the market. Commercial release is expected at the end of January. Price around HKD 1600 (USD 200).

2000/12/28 - Push-pull EMU "Lanjian" (Blue arrow) has began commercial operation between Guangzhou Dong and Shenzhen. Pictures can be found here. Also, two brand new AC-DC-AC locomotives (DJ 0001, 0002) have arrived Guangshen. A news reported that GSRC has purchased the locomotives at RMB 21 million each.

2000/12/26 - Shanghai Mingzhu (Pearl), China's first elevated railway, is put into trial operation on today. The first phase of the 24.975-kilometre-long rail is expected to improve the traffic flow from the south of the city to the north. The line will bring the total length of urban transit railways in Shanghai to 65 kilometres - the longest among China's cities. Promotional prices range from 2 to 3 yuan and the operation times for trail run is from 08:10 to 16:30 with a 30 minute interval.

2000/12/14 - High Speed Rail Link features in German talk

2000/12/10 - There will be no network-wide ticket sale between 10 December and 28 December as China Railway take up the responsibility of transporting return service PLAs and those who are joining the PLAs. If you travel around China this time of the year. You may notice there are some welcoming/farewell ceremony for the old/new soliders at many stations across China.

2000/11/19 - Fourth track for Guangshen line received a Green Signal. The construction expect to begin on August 2001 and to complete in July 2003.

2000/11/5 - Push-pull EMU "Lanjian" (Blue Arrow) has arrived Guangshen Line and currently undergoes a series of testing. An informal news source said this train set is expected to run on commercial service on Guangshen (Guangzhou East-Shenzhen) /Guangjiu (Guangzhou East - Hung Hom) around late November.

2000/11/2 - Famous namer, "Mao Ze Dong Hao" (DF4 0002), had a upgrade today. A ceremony taken place at Dalian on 2 Nov 2000 to celebrate the delivery of DF4D (number did not mention) replacement. The news in Chinese is here.

2000/11/1 - HO scale (1:87) DF11 0128 is now available on the market. This has a name of "Xian Feng Hao" (Pioneer).

2000/10/21 - A new train schedule on China Rail starting today. The improvement is emphasised on JingJiu (Beijing - Nanchang section) Line, ZheGan (Hangzhou - Changsha) Line and services to the western region (such as Sichuan province and Xinzhang autonomus region). Urumqi Bureau purchased 32 DF11s and 8 DF4Ds high performance locomotives in response to the new timetable services. A summary of train times can be found here (in Chinese).

2000/10/18 - A push-pull train set designed by Qingdao's Sifang Rolling Stock Works, namely "Shenzhou Hao (China Land)" begin servicing between Beijing and Tianjin. It was designed to capable running at a speed of 200km/h. However, due to inadequate infrastructure to support that speed on Beijing-Tianjin line. The train is restricted at a maximum of 140km/h. A few pictures of this trainset can be found here.

2000/9/18 - A steam festival will be held at February 2001 on Jitong Line. Details can be found here.