I am a Hongkonger. I am a bit touched to see the progress and development of my city over the time period of more than a century through the lens of railway development in this video. Thanks for your good work!
Is there some progress for Kai Tak Monorail? Anyway, I think about what if MTR build Whampoa - North Point Tunnel? So they can make Kwung Tong Line a circle line. I also think about what if they convert Peak Tram into metro standard train (example: Lyon Metro Line C) and merge it with East Rail/Tsuen Wan Line, or one of them merge with South Island Line. Are those three ideas possible? And I think it's better for Tseung Kwan O Line to extend to the south, maybe until Ocean Park Station.
YES! Finally my second bucket list is up. Thanks a bunch A correction here: Mong Kok East was called Mong Kok by the KCR until it merges with MTR. There were actually two Mong Kok stations coexist simultaneously.
@@MetroLiner Yeah, the other one is Taipei. There are several system in my mind but most of them are too small for a good sizable video. But I do hope for a remake for some older systems like New York or Beijing for higher quality
Great work but a little miss: The East Rail Line once had a short Wo Hop Shek branch from Fanling to Wo Hop Shek, which is mainly used for transporting corpses to the cemetery located there Which is closed shortly before full electrification of the line in 1983
Always love these videos! It feels like nothing really happened until the 70’s and 80’s and then suddenly an explosion of growth in the lines and network. Also I forgot there’s a Disneyland in Hong Kong lol 😅
If you want an explanation: people romanticize Hong Kong's period as a british possession but the thing is their disregard for it as merely a colony. It had no sort executive or legislative elections at all, just an appointed governor as if it was a department of a company. The difference of investment after China regained it is visible. It still has serious problems such as its precarious housing situation but in british days it literally had slums. If this isn't visible enough in the video already, Hong Kong becomes China in 1997
@@fresagrus4490 Life was definitely better before 1997, there was proper consultation, and freedom of speech and rally are protected. CCP bots and leftist like to make everything "housing problem", huh. It worked in USSR and China, but it won't work here. You cannot brainwash us and rile us up against the landlord because we are not ignorant to history. The best you can do is to use force to silence and arrest us.
Some detail information: In detail, there are several rail track changes at KCR East Rail Line, such as Hung Hum to Lo Wu change to double track during electrification(1975-1983), new high speed track (allow train run in 80-120kmh) to replace the old, sharp turn track along Tolu Harbour (from new Tai Po Market to Ma Liu Shui/University)
COOL! I haven't been down to HK since January 2020. It's good to know the next time I go I can take the East Rail Line all the way to the Island Line. That's going to save me some walking to be sure! I did not expect anything to have been built or expanded since 2018.
I haven't been since 2019 so I am as excited as you are. The east rail line expansion (commonly known as the "4th harbour crossing line" in Chinese) was planned as early as the 2000s. The B1M channel made a really good video about the whole construction and the reason that came behind it (over reliance of tsuen Wan line)
I am dying to visit Hong Kong again once they announce they will open borders and accept tourists. Every year I would visit them to ride their MTRs, ding ding trams and buses till Covid happened. Hoping to step into my second home city again soon.
Back in 1911, it’s definitely not called Mong Kok East. It should be Yaumatei and later changed to Mongkok. “East” was added to distinguish it from the MTR Mongkok station when MTR and KCR merged.
I just came back from HK. To go to the airport from Kowloon, I took the MTR to Tung Chung then it was a short cheap bus ride to the airport. Saved a lot of money that way. Much cheaper than the Airport Express, and cheaper and quicker than a direct bus from Kowloon. All in all, MTR is great. Efficient, clean and cheap. So glad KCR merged with MTR.
The fact that Hong Kong is so small, so the MTR has not much to work on right now. But there are a few proposals: the east Kowloon line, north island line, South Island line (west), northern link, tung Chung west extension, and the tuen men south extension. Currently none of these are being built
Has a railway serving Wo Hop Shek Public Cemetery at the past but just a single station. Before WWII has tram serving North Hong Kong Island, has cable car from dock to Mount Parker Hill build by dock company at late 18th century closed at 1930's(before WWII to 50's Hong Kong is one of main ship building center at Far East.) and Peak Tram serve from late 18th century to now.
2:28 When they split into two lines, I just want to know how the trains on the Tseun Wan Line turn back after terminating at Mong Kok? I know that the Up and Down line platforms in Mong Kok are in different levels and have no crossover between them.
Here are some reminders: At the start, Tai Po Kau Station should be named 大埔 Tai Po, KCR renamed it to 大埔滘 Tai Po Kau at 1966 There’s also a Wo Hop Shek Branch operates by KCR that runs between Fanling and Wo Hop Shek (South of Fanling), the branch opened in 1949 and closed in 1983 Tung Chung Line opened at 22/6/1998, instead of 21/6/1998
If I had a dollar for every time an urban railway and/or subway system skipped a racecourse station on one side, I’d have two dollars, which isn’t a lot but weird it happened twice…
I miss HongKong -> Central, Admiralty, Tsim Sha Tsui, Jordan... Mongkok... until Tsuen Wan.... I was based in HongKong from 1999 to 2022. Great to see Admiralty Station became one of the Subway Hubs.
Yikes, the Sha Tau Kok railway has a wacky alignment, especially between Wo Hang and Shek Chung Au. Was that because of Hong Kong’s mountainous terrain?
@@hommagat2587 What is at Sha Tau Kok nowadays? So it's not worth having a railway line there now? I wonder whether it would be worth having a rail link to Sai Kung.
Oh wait, does the high speed railway count as a part of the system? Though I really don’t like the high speed rail but it is officially organizing by MTR for HK section
I'd like to correct something here Actually Mong Kok (Underground one), Yau Ma Tei and Central were called Argyle, Waterloo and Chater. They renamed as current names after Island Line was opened. At the same time, Lai Wan renamed as Mei Foo (This name is from the Chinese translation of Exxon Mobil😂) Before Tsuen Wan Line was opened, Kwun Tong Line was called Modified Initial System. Red colour was used to represent it. "Kwun Tong Line" didn't exist before the separation. Mong Kok and Yau Ma Tei were opened later than Jordan and Tsim Sha Tsui. Initially Mong Kok East was called Yaumatei before 1969, and Mong Kok before 2007. Light Rail Tin Wing Station was called Tin Shui Wai before West Rail was opened. It was a terminal station with 7 platforms. Now it has 2 platforms only because other platforms were demolished for building houses.
The Wo Hop Shek branch from 1950s until 1983 had been missed out. And Mong Kok East was initially named as Yaumatei, renamed as Mong Kok in mid-1960s, and again renamed as Mong Kok East on 02 Dec 2007 when KCR was merged into the MTR.
Hong Kong has evolved when it was occupied by the British and the railways also evolved. And China took over Hong Kong in 1997 under its “One County, Two Systems” policy.
Hong Kong MTR East Rail Line 1910 Kwun Tong Line 1972 Tsuen Wang Line 1982 Island Line 1985 Light Rail 1988 Tung Chung Line 1998 Airport Express 1998 Tseung Kwan O Line 2002 Tuen Ma Line 2003 Disneyland Resort Line 2005 South Island Line 2016
It is not a part of the Hong Kong metro it’s a railway system used to go into mainland china the Hong Kong metro doesn’t do that it’s only used to get anywhere in Hong Kong even though it goes into Hong Kong west Kowloon the only way to get anywhere you want take the high speed rail to Hong Kong west Kowloon then at that station you can get anywhere across Hong Kong by taking the line or transferring at other stations to get to other lines on the line your taking hope this helps!❤
Great visualisation! Just wanted to know the reason behind not capitalising 'line' for the MTR lines (eg Kwun Tong line instead of Kwun Tong Line), because you did capitalise it in your other videos. If you are referring to Wikipedia, that site is wrong by the way. Capitalising suggests 'line' is part of the proper name for MTR lines and should be listed in the key as Tsuen Wan Line, Kwun Tong Line, Island Line, Tung Chung Line etc instead of Tsuen Wan, Kwun Tong, Island, Tung Chung etc. Even if this is not and line is only a common noun, this is good practice as these names on its own will more likely refer to the station rather than the line.
I am a Hongkonger. I am a bit touched to see the progress and development of my city over the time period of more than a century through the lens of railway development in this video. Thanks for your good work!
Is there some progress for Kai Tak Monorail?
Anyway, I think about what if MTR build Whampoa - North Point Tunnel? So they can make Kwung Tong Line a circle line. I also think about what if they convert Peak Tram into metro standard train (example: Lyon Metro Line C) and merge it with East Rail/Tsuen Wan Line, or one of them merge with South Island Line. Are those three ideas possible?
And I think it's better for Tseung Kwan O Line to extend to the south, maybe until Ocean Park Station.
What’s a hongkonger?
@@RT-qk6jg Person living in Hong kong
以前紅磡叫做九龍😂
I'm Hong Kong Too
YES! Finally my second bucket list is up. Thanks a bunch
A correction here: Mong Kok East was called Mong Kok by the KCR until it merges with MTR. There were actually two Mong Kok stations coexist simultaneously.
Yay! Was the other one Taipei?
Is there any other city you would like to see?
@@MetroLiner Yeah, the other one is Taipei. There are several system in my mind but most of them are too small for a good sizable video. But I do hope for a remake for some older systems like New York or Beijing for higher quality
You forgot cablecar
@@Nina-ed2ju nah I wouldn’t consider the cable car as a ‘metro’ after all
you made a naming mistakes here
tuen ma line was called tuen ma line phase 1 before merging to west rail line
A Great Thank You From Hong Kong! 謝謝你！
（香港人麻煩like吓XD）
所以新加坡人不可以+1？[doge]
@@jonseilim4321 冇話唔得喎QQ
我係
Great work but a little miss:
The East Rail Line once had a short Wo Hop Shek branch from Fanling to Wo Hop Shek, which is mainly used for transporting corpses to the cemetery located there
Which is closed shortly before full electrification of the line in 1983
睇小薯茄先知😂
Was going to say that too! It was an interesting part of the railway history.
Always love these videos! It feels like nothing really happened until the 70’s and 80’s and then suddenly an explosion of growth in the lines and network. Also I forgot there’s a Disneyland in Hong Kong lol 😅
Cuz the population starts growing after the 1950s, before that time Hong Kong doesn’t quite need a mass transit
No wonder you will forget it, it’s the smallest in the whole world
If you want an explanation: people romanticize Hong Kong's period as a british possession but the thing is their disregard for it as merely a colony. It had no sort executive or legislative elections at all, just an appointed governor as if it was a department of a company.
The difference of investment after China regained it is visible. It still has serious problems such as its precarious housing situation but in british days it literally had slums.
If this isn't visible enough in the video already, Hong Kong becomes China in 1997
@@fresagrus4490 ccp bot moment
@@fresagrus4490 Life was definitely better before 1997, there was proper consultation, and freedom of speech and rally are protected. CCP bots and leftist like to make everything "housing problem", huh. It worked in USSR and China, but it won't work here. You cannot brainwash us and rile us up against the landlord because we are not ignorant to history. The best you can do is to use force to silence and arrest us.
Some detail information:
In detail, there are several rail track changes at KCR East Rail Line, such as Hung Hum to Lo Wu change to double track during electrification(1975-1983),
new high speed track (allow train run in 80-120kmh) to replace the old, sharp turn track along Tolu Harbour (from new Tai Po Market to Ma Liu Shui/University)
I love train line connecting together!
COOL! I haven't been down to HK since January 2020. It's good to know the next time I go I can take the East Rail Line all the way to the Island Line. That's going to save me some walking to be sure! I did not expect anything to have been built or expanded since 2018.
I haven't been since 2019 so I am as excited as you are. The east rail line expansion (commonly known as the "4th harbour crossing line" in Chinese) was planned as early as the 2000s. The B1M channel made a really good video about the whole construction and the reason that came behind it (over reliance of tsuen Wan line)
I am dying to visit Hong Kong again once they announce they will open borders and accept tourists. Every year I would visit them to ride their MTRs, ding ding trams and buses till Covid happened. Hoping to step into my second home city again soon.
Pavement is totally destroyed
I really love your work. You may be one of my fav channels by now. I wish there was a metro in Krakow so you could make a video abt it...
I am a Canadian from HK. I missed those developments in HK. Thank you for the video.
Back in 1911, it’s definitely not called Mong Kok East. It should be Yaumatei and later changed to Mongkok. “East” was added to distinguish it from the MTR Mongkok station when MTR and KCR merged.
I just came back from HK. To go to the airport from Kowloon, I took the MTR to Tung Chung then it was a short cheap bus ride to the airport. Saved a lot of money that way. Much cheaper than the Airport Express, and cheaper and quicker than a direct bus from Kowloon. All in all, MTR is great. Efficient, clean and cheap. So glad KCR merged with MTR.
What a great work! I also hope you can make a video of Guangzhou Metro in your free time!
Large population in Pok Fu Lam, Cyber Port, Wah Fu Estate, Aberdeen in Hong Kong Island South have been waiting MTR for over 10 years… 😓😓😓
I'm giving to you making this map evolutions this map.
1000/10!
New I know more Hong Kong history thank you (I am born and live in Hong Kong)
The fact that Hong Kong is so small, so the MTR has not much to work on right now. But there are a few proposals: the east Kowloon line, north island line, South Island line (west), northern link, tung Chung west extension, and the tuen men south extension. Currently none of these are being built
Hong Kong is not small there is only too much hills and stuff. I think MTR much too much focus on new towns and ignore the old things
@@stalexeve no
@@stalexeve yea, definitely too much hills
Unfortunately there's no direct link (not through Kowloon) between Tsuen Wan and Sha Tin.
The day at 28/12/2016, I was the first 30 people to go on the south island line. I was so honoured.
Has a railway serving Wo Hop Shek Public Cemetery at the past but just a single station.
Before WWII has tram serving North Hong Kong Island, has cable car from dock to Mount Parker Hill build by dock company at late 18th century closed at 1930's(before WWII to 50's Hong Kong is one of main ship building center at Far East.)
and Peak Tram serve from late 18th century to now.
Yayyy I've waited for like one year for this video ✨✨
Very accurate timeline, nice video
I am amazed to know how much of the MTR was built after 1997 (not before)!
This is amazing! I used to live in Hong Kong, between 1982 to 1990.
Yay! I’ve been waiting for this video to come. Thank you for fulfilling my dreams!
I've been waiting for this for a long, long time. Thank you!
2:28 When they split into two lines, I just want to know how the trains on the Tseun Wan Line turn back after terminating at Mong Kok? I know that the Up and Down line platforms in Mong Kok are in different levels and have no crossover between them.
Also, Tuen Ma Line here!
5:58 I remember this line for October or November 2019 for live the station at DRL and all ahead the bus shuttle to the hotel 🥳
6:14 sha tau kok branch line’s stations revives for a few frames
The Sha Tau Kok brench line is sus,the line is dead, but their stations revived?!?
So proud of my city 🇭🇰
Yau Ma Tei station was called Waterloo since it was on Waterloo Road.
yess finally hong kong mtr
the bgm is so fantasy
Great video! I hope you do Chicago soon!!
Keep up the good work with all these videos
Thank You
Thanks for making Hong Kong’s
Here are some reminders:
At the start, Tai Po Kau Station should be named 大埔 Tai Po, KCR renamed it to 大埔滘 Tai Po Kau at 1966
There’s also a Wo Hop Shek Branch operates by KCR that runs between Fanling and Wo Hop Shek (South of Fanling), the branch opened in 1949 and closed in 1983
Tung Chung Line opened at 22/6/1998, instead of 21/6/1998
Wow Hong Kong subway is here in before toothbrush is invented
Thank you for the hard work
If I had a dollar for every time an urban railway and/or subway system skipped a racecourse station on one side, I’d have two dollars, which isn’t a lot but weird it happened twice…
屯馬開通真的很興奮~
紅磡過海真的很興奮
information mistake, Wo Hop Shek Branch Line started service in 11 May, 1950 and ended in 10 April, 1983.
Where's wo ha shek branch in 20th century?
For Asia, what about making Tashkent metro ?
If the landscape of the map can also change together, this will be much more impressing
香港的港岛电车，轻铁，太平山顶缆车，昂平360缆车，海洋公园缆车，机场APM，启德环保运输系统也很有趣
I miss HongKong -> Central, Admiralty, Tsim Sha Tsui, Jordan... Mongkok... until Tsuen Wan.... I was based in HongKong from 1999 to 2022. Great to see Admiralty Station became one of the Subway Hubs.
6:27 LOHAS park extends from Tseung Kwan O line, not Po Lam
Please do Bangkok subway🇹🇭
Finally let goo bro u finally makes Hong Kong MTR next can u expand about LRT because LRT have tons of lines even expand the future of MTR
MTR!!!
YAY THX
Yay I've been waiting on this! :D
Yikes, the Sha Tau Kok railway has a wacky alignment, especially between Wo Hang and Shek Chung Au. Was that because of Hong Kong’s mountainous terrain?
Yes
@@hommagat2587 What is at Sha Tau Kok nowadays? So it's not worth having a railway line there now? I wonder whether it would be worth having a rail link to Sai Kung.
@@pbworld7858 basically nothing, there are buses running there tho so no point having a railway line
Again asking to do Evolution of Tbilisi Metro.
Nice vids BTW.
好好睇
Istanbul and Tbilisi would be great as a your video :))
Yes you finally made a Hong Kong one
Note that Fo Tan and Racecourse are actually in two separate loops.
Oh wait, does the high speed railway count as a part of the system? Though I really don’t like the high speed rail but it is officially organizing by MTR for HK section
Missing out High Speed Railway.
hi great video and can you do Prague?
I'd like to correct something here
Actually Mong Kok (Underground one), Yau Ma Tei and Central were called Argyle, Waterloo and Chater. They renamed as current names after Island Line was opened. At the same time, Lai Wan renamed as Mei Foo (This name is from the Chinese translation of Exxon Mobil😂)
Before Tsuen Wan Line was opened, Kwun Tong Line was called Modified Initial System. Red colour was used to represent it. "Kwun Tong Line" didn't exist before the separation. Mong Kok and Yau Ma Tei were opened later than Jordan and Tsim Sha Tsui.
Initially Mong Kok East was called Yaumatei before 1969, and Mong Kok before 2007.
Light Rail Tin Wing Station was called Tin Shui Wai before West Rail was opened. It was a terminal station with 7 platforms. Now it has 2 platforms only because other platforms were demolished for building houses.
My favourite station name is Austin and it sounded like poo in chinese
+ its called tuen ma line phase 1 before combining west rail line
@@kingmine You know I'm a Hong Konger right
@@Aiden8-bits I'm Hongkonger too
@@Aiden8-bits ye, me too
和合石支線呢？
But not shown wo hop shek spur line.
please do Buenos Aires, first metro system of the south hemisphere
The Wo Hop Shek branch from 1950s until 1983 had been missed out.
And Mong Kok East was initially named as Yaumatei, renamed as Mong Kok in mid-1960s, and again renamed as Mong Kok East on 02 Dec 2007 when KCR was merged into the MTR.
Nice
MTR!
Hong Kong has evolved when it was occupied by the British and the railways also evolved. And China took over Hong Kong in 1997 under its “One County, Two Systems” policy.
Hong Kong History of MTR 香港的港鐵歷史
Mong Kok-Argyle Yaumatei-Waterloo Mongkok East-Mong Kok
Hong Kong MTR
East Rail Line 1910
Kwun Tong Line 1972
Tsuen Wang Line 1982
Island Line 1985
Light Rail 1988
Tung Chung Line 1998
Airport Express 1998
Tseung Kwan O Line 2002
Tuen Ma Line 2003
Disneyland Resort Line 2005
South Island Line 2016
Tuen ma line wasn't open since 2003,but it was open in 2021
So you should probably put tml on second to last
@@HWLui It was first named Ma On Shan Line then in 2020 it Renamed Tuen Ma Line Before West Rail Line Was converted
Lisbon or Porto next please!!
Do İstanbul please, extend it to 2040 too
Excelent video
Didn’t know the island line was relatively new when I first took it at around 5 years old. Getting old LOL
PLEASE DO PRAGUE METRO
this is incredible
Where is High speed rail?????????
It is not a part of the Hong Kong metro it’s a railway system used to go into mainland china the Hong Kong metro doesn’t do that it’s only used to get anywhere in Hong Kong even though it goes into Hong Kong west Kowloon the only way to get anywhere you want take the high speed rail to Hong Kong west Kowloon then at that station you can get anywhere across Hong Kong by taking the line or transferring at other stations to get to other lines on the line your taking hope this helps!❤
who is hong kong people
⬇️
Well United KCR was missed a lot
Awesome metro liner
As a hongkonger, this is true
Wow thx
can you do lisbon or porto in a further video : )?
Nothing happened in prince Edward station on 20190831 ,and nothing happened in Yuen long station on 20190721
Great visualisation! Just wanted to know the reason behind not capitalising 'line' for the MTR lines (eg Kwun Tong line instead of Kwun Tong Line), because you did capitalise it in your other videos. If you are referring to Wikipedia, that site is wrong by the way.
Capitalising suggests 'line' is part of the proper name for MTR lines and should be listed in the key as Tsuen Wan Line, Kwun Tong Line, Island Line, Tung Chung Line etc instead of Tsuen Wan, Kwun Tong, Island, Tung Chung etc. Even if this is not and line is only a common noun, this is good practice as these names on its own will more likely refer to the station rather than the line.
7:12 in kai tak,you are few words 啟
Why there is a Bank Of China Tower in the Exit J of Central station?
Can you do Hamburg next please?
Hong Kong, every year new line
Malaysia, every decade new line
Sao Paulo/Brazil subway please
pls do manila
Can you do Sydney next please
0:32 - 0:50 沙頭角支線本來只有5個車站，還有孔嶺、龍耀頭都有車站。Σ(°Д°;
好有心機，但資料不正確
荃灣線最初沒有叫美孚的站
Not Mong Kok East,is Yau Ma Tei(1911)
人心人心心心心心❤❤❤❤
Excellent animation, but the map back then should be different due to reclamation.