Hong Kong Railway Museum, Railway museum in Tai Po District, Hong Kong.
The Hong Kong Railway Museum is a railway museum in Tai Po District housed in a traditional Chinese station building with a tiled roof. Outdoor platforms hold carriages and locomotives that visitors can walk around and examine closely.
The station opened in 1913 as part of the Kowloon-Canton Railway and served passengers until closure in the early 1980s. Protection as a monument followed in 1984, with conversion to a museum completed the next year.
Ticket counters and staff quarters show how railway workers organized daily operations, while exhibits trace changes in how passengers traveled through the territory. Original timetables and tools offer insight into routines that kept trains running on schedule.
The site lies about ten minutes on foot from Tai Po Market MTR Station exit A2, with signposted pathways guiding the way. Admission is free and opening hours run daily from 10 AM to 6 PM.
One of the diesel locomotives on display worked freight routes between Hong Kong and the mainland until 2021, marking decades of active service. Engine No. 60 now rests on track beside older passenger coaches, its long working life ending only recently.
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