Railway Museum

With less than a month left in Hong Kong, as people start streaming back home, it is time to catch up with the places I have yet to go, and have been wanting to. Some of time far, some of them almost at our doorsteps, like the Railway Museum at Tai Po, we were basically about 150m from it at some point in time shopping around and yet we never ventured to it.

As the 10th anniversary celebrations in Hong Kong goes into full swing, I begin to feel that there seem to be an attempt to remove all hints of Hong Kong related to the colonial period, anything British, like Queen's Pier. There are redevelopment plans slated for every part of the region from Wan Chai to Lantau. I begin to feel that the Hong Kong I wanted to see wasn't really there, as I tried to captured the old Hong Kong, which is fast disappearing.










The old logo looks very traditional...heh




I have been wondering the need for a first class carriage on KCR. Now it seems to be just a tradition carried down since the old days. And in the old days, there was indeed much difference in the level of comfort between first class and ordinary class, from the seat width to the material of the seats, as well as the tinted windows...