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	Sha Tau Kok Information
		Sha Tau Kok or Shataukok or Sathewkok (Traditional Chinese: 沙頭角) is a town in the northeastern corner of Hong Kong.
		Sha Tau Kok is one of the three road connections between Hong Kong and mainland China.
		Sha Tau Kok Railway was built from the original narrow gauge of the KCR British Section, which was replaced by standard gauge.
	www.bookrags.com /wiki/Sha_Tau_Kok (737 words)

	Sha Tau Kok - Biocrawler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Sha Tau Kok (traditional Chinese: 沙頭角) is a town in the northeastern corner of Hong Kong.
		Sha Tau Kok Railway was built from the original narrow gauge of the KCR British Section, which was replaced by standard gauge.
		Sha Tau Kok is one of the three road connections between Hong Kong and mainland China.
	www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Sha_Tau_Kok (837 words)

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		Before rebranding, "Kowloon-Canton Railway" referred to the railway that runs north and south between Kowloon in Hong Kong and the city of Canton (now Guangzhou) in mainland China.
		When Hong Kong was under British rule, the section of this railway that lies within the territory of British Hong Kong was known as the "British Section" of the railway, which largely corresponded to the present-day KCR East Rail.
		Disputes on the funding and location of Canton Road station in Tsim Sha Tsui, which was in the proposed alignment, postponed the construction by a year to 2005.
	www.celebritiesguide.com /?title=KCR (3334 words)

	Narrow gauge (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Separate metre-gauge railways are operated by the FGC (Ferrocarrils de la Generalitat de Catalunya, Catalan regional government railways) from Barcelona to Manresa and Igualada, the FGV (Ferrocarrils de la Generalitat Valenciana, Valencian regional government railways) around the city of Valencia, and the SFM (Serveis Ferroviaris de Mallorca) on the island of Majorca.
		Well-known railways include the Ffestiniog Railway and Talyllyn Railway in Wales, and the miniature Romney, Hythe and Dymchurch Railway in Kent and the Ravenglass and Eskdale Railway in the Lake District.
		The Isle of Man Steam Railway to the southwest is operated largely as a tourist attraction but the Manx Electric Railway to the northeast is a commercially operated railway system though its operation is closer to that of a tramway than a railway.
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	Narrow gauge - Wikipedia Mirror (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Narrow-gauge railways are railways or railroads where the distance between the two parallel rails constituting the railway track (the track gauge) is less than the 1435 mm (4 ft 8.5 in) of standard-gauge railways.
		The Isle of Man Steam Railway to the southwest is operated largely as a tourist attraction but the Manx Electric Railway to the northeast is a commercially operated railway system though its operation is closer to that of a tramway than a railway and includes street running sections at each end.
		The railways in Equador are 3 ft (914 mm) gauge.
	www.wiki-mirror.us /index.php/Narrow_gauge (7028 words)

	Sha Tau Kok Railway - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Sha Tau Kok Railway (沙頭角鐵路) was a 2 ft (610 mm) gauge narrow gauge railway running from Fanling to Sha Tau Kok in the northern New Territories of Hong Kong.
		It was built with the narrow gauge tracks of the Kowloon-Canton Railway (now KCR East Rail), when the latter was converted to standard gauge.
		The locomotive used on the railway was once sold to the Philippines in the early years and was brought back to Hong Kong for display in the Hong Kong Railway Museum.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sha_Tau_Kok_Railway (190 words)

	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Narrow gauge
		Narrow-gauge railways are railways or railroads where the distance between the rails - the track gauge - is less than the of standard gauge railways.
		The earliest recorded railway is shown in the De re metallica of 1556 which shows a mine in the Czech Republic with a railway of approximately gauge.
		The Canterbury Provincial Railways opened New Zealand's first railway in 1863 and used a broad gauge of 1600 mm (5 ft 3 in), while Southland built the Bluff and Kingston Branches to, and short segments of 1435 mm railway were also constructed in the Auckland and Northland Regions.
	www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Narrow_gauge (6602 words)

	kcr - Article and Reference from OnPedia.com
		The Kowloon-Canton Railway Corporation is responsible for the network's operations, and is in turn fully owned by the Hong Kong Government.
		The narrow gauge materials was later used to build the now-defunct Sha Tau Kok Railway.
		Disputes on the funding and location of Canton Road station in Tsim Sha Tsui, which was in the proposed alignment, has pushed the construction a year later to 2005.
	www.onpedia.com /encyclopedia/KCR (1810 words)

	Sha Tau Kok Railway (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		'''Sha Tau Kok Railway''' was a narrow gauge railway running from Fanling to Sha Tau Kok in the northern New Territories area of Hong Kong.
		It was built with the narrow gauge tracks of the Kowloon-Canton Railway (now the East Rail), when the latter was converted into standard gauge.
		It was removed in April 1, 1928 when the Sha Tau Kok Road, a highway parallel to the tracks, was in service.
	sha-tau-kok-railway.kiwiki.homeip.net (176 words)

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	Narrow gauge (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The Isle of Man Steam Railway to the west is operated largely as a tourist attraction but the Manx Electric Railway to the east is a commercially operated railway system though its operation is closer to a tramway than a railway.
		There is also a railway operating on the princpal mountain, the Snaefell Mountain Railway (operated as part of the Manx Electric Railway, that is 3 feet 6 inches, the extra width to allow a central double headed rail laid on its side.
		Except for the high speed railway and the metro systems in Taipei and Kaohsiung, all of Taiwan's railway network is narrow gauge, built at 3 ft 6 in (1067 mm) or 2 ft 6 in (762 mm).
	narrow-gauge.kiwiki.homeip.net (4599 words)

	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/KCR East Rail
		The same railway is used for passenger and freight services crossing the border with Shenzhen to various cities in mainland China, including Guangzhou, Shanghai and Beijing.
		The part of the railway located in Hong Kong was referred to as the "British Section", while the remaining route to Canton (now Guangzhou) was called the "Chinese Section", now the Guangzhou-Shenzhen Railway.
		The original Kowloon station terminus at Tsim Sha Tsui was too small and had no room for expansion, so a new terminus site was chosen in Hung Hom, then known as Kowloon station.
	www.reference.com /browse/wiki/KCR_East_Rail (1212 words)

	Sha Tau Kok - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Sha Tau Kok or Shataukok or Sathewkok (Traditional Chinese: 沙頭角) is a town in the northeastern corner of Hong Kong.
		Sha Tau Kok is one of the three road connections between Hong Kong and Mainland China, the other two being Man Kam To and Lok Ma Chau.
		Chung Ying Street is special, as it previously lied on the border between China and Hong Kong, one side of the road lying in each country.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sha_Tau_Kok (782 words)

	Urban Transport Technology - Hong Kong Mass Transit, China
		The railway will be built primarily on a viaduct with a small section in the middle running at grade along the central divider of Tate's Cairn Highway.
		The railway interchanges with East Rail and the future Sha Tin to Central Link at Tai Wai Station, which will be rebuilt to cope with a larger passenger flow.
		As the Tsim Sha Tsui extension will be part of the principal railway line, it will operate at the same frequency as East Rail.
	www.urbantransport-technology.com /projects/china (2353 words)

	Hong Kong Railway Society
		This 2ft narrow gauge line was constructed utilising the railway track, locomotives and rolling stock, which had been used for the construction of the main KCR line.
		April 1928, the Fanling to Sha Tau Kok narrow gauge line was closed with the relatively new Bagnall engines being sold to Victorias sugar mill on Negros Occidentale in the Philippines.
		These engines served the railway (although not without considerable maintenance difficulties) until the mid 1950’s when a decision was taken to invest in new diesel-electric locomotives.
	www.hkrs.org.hk /members/crush/kcrhistory/opening.htm (1013 words)

	KCR - TvWiki, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The Kowloon-Canton Railway Corporation is responsible for the network's operations, which is in turn fully owned by the Hong Kong Government.
		Before rebranding "Kowloon-Canton Railway" refers to the rail-link between Kowloon and Canton (now Guangzhou), or specifically the "British Section" of the railway, which largely correspond to the present-day KCR East Rail.
		Disputes on the funding and location of Canton Road station in Tsim Sha Tsui, which was in the proposed alignment, has pushed the construction a year later to 2005.
	www.tvwiki.tv /wiki/KCR (2507 words)

	Hong Kong Expedition, Dec 2001 - Matt Wegener & Alastair Ritchie
		We were driven past Hong Kong's two tallest buildings, the Bank of China Tower (2nd) and the Central Plaza (1st and actually in Wan Chai district, not central) before arriving at the station for the tram to the peak.
		From Luen Wo we went along the road to Sha Tau Kok, the North-Eastern border town which is a restricted area, turning off just before the checkpoint.
		Sha Tau Kok actually sits right on the border, one side is in Hong Kong SAR, the other half is in China - the main street's name is China-Britain street!
	mattw.de /hongkong01 (3684 words)

	Blogging... Walk The Talk: November 2005
		The Kowloon Canton Railway, at least the British section of it, was completed in 1910 to great acclaim.
		Railway trucks were used as additional refugee camps at Fan Ling and Cha Hang.
		Visitors and even locals to Tsim Sha Tsui may be forgiven for not noticing the vestiges of a military presence that once made itself felt strongly in the district.
	www.blogthetalk.com /2005_11_01_blogthetalk_archive.html (10955 words)

	Hong Kong travel guide - Wikitravel
		Sha Tau Kok control point can be accessed by taking the cross-boundary coach on the bus interchange at Luen Wo Hui in Fanling.
		Sha Tau Kok is used if the onward route is to the east of Guangdong.
		Hong Kong's Mass Transit Railway (MTR) underground network is the fastest way to get around the city, but what you gain in speed you lose in views and (at least for short distances) price.
	wikitravel.org /en/Hong_Kong (10772 words)

	Kowloon Canton Railway
		In 1949, service from Tsim Sha Tsui to Guangzhou was cut back, and the line was terminated on the boundary at Lo Wu, the current terminus of East Rail today.
		Say a trip from Mong Kok to Sha Tin is HKD $5.50 (about USD $0.70), it will be HKD $11 (about USD $1.40) on First Class.
		But alas, sound barriers are in the process of being installed along the Tai Po Highway (which is still running beside the railway ROW albeit with a distance and at a lower level than the ROW), which may block off the view, I am not sure.
	world.nycsubway.org /asia-oceania/hkkcr.html (3587 words)

	KCR East Rail information - Search.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Mong Kok Station is not a transfer station to the Mong Kok Station of the MTR
		Racecourse Station is only open when horseracing or a special event is held at Sha Tin Racecourse.
		Chau Tau and Lok Ma Chau are stations on the Lok Ma Chau Spur Line, a branch from Sheung Shui Station of the
	c10-ss-1-lb.cnet.com /reference/KCR_East_Rail?redir=1 (1341 words)

	What to see : Major Tourist Attractions
		The extra revenue raised was used to build Hong Kong's second racecourse at Sha Tin in the New Territories, which opened in 1978.
		Part of the original Kowloon-Canton Railway terminus, the Clock Tower was completed and came into operation in 1921.
		The explanation is that the Airport Express, which whisks them across the bridge in either direction, travels through one of two rail tunnels slung beneath two three-lane carriageways roadway.
	www.hotelhongkong.com /what_to_see.cfm (2402 words)

	KCRC (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The Kowloon-Canton Railway Corporation is responsible for the networks operations, and is in turn fully owned by the Hong Kong Hong Kong Government.
		Originally, the railway used to go from Tsim Sha Tsui all the way across the border to Canton.
		One year later, on 15 July 1983 the final section of the railway to Lo Wu was completed and opened by the then Governors of Hong Kong, Sir Edward Youde.
	read-and-go.hopto.org /KCRC (1672 words)

	Tai Po (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The reason for the old and new markets is that the market was formerly controlled by the Tang clan, who imposed tarriffs on the sale of goods by the Man clan and charged exorbitantly for ferry rides across the river.
		The beginning of the walk to Sha Lo Tung is marked on the map as Tin Sam, although the village itself seems to consist of little more than a series of scrap yards.
		The place you are looking for is the junction of Sha Lo Tung Road and Ting Kok Road and the easiest way to get there is to take a taxi from Tai Po KCR and ask the driver to take you to Sha Lo Tung Road.
	ec.hku.hk /hiking/Tai_Po/starting_points.htm (1279 words)

	Travel guide for Hong Kong - Hostels, things to do, nightlife, tips, etc
		The train terminus is Tsim Sha Tsui East Station on the Kowloon side, a recent extension built from Hung Hom Station.
		There are five lines, with the most important ones for visitors being the busy Tsuen Wan Line (red), which tunnels from Central to Kowloon and down Nathan Rd towards Tsuen Wan in the New Territories and the Island Line (blue) which runs along the north coast of the Island.
		The Ma On Shan Railway, a branch of East Rail, was opened on December 2004.
	paganel.eu /hong_kong/index.html (7657 words)

	WWW10 Airport Transportations
		Connected to the passenger terminal, the four-level Ground Transportation Centre houses the station for the Airport Express railway and an extensive public transport interchange with facilities for taxis, franchised buses, tour coaches, hotel limousines and private cars.
		Baggage trolleys can be found at all passenger drop-off points and free porter service is available at the passenger terminal departures kerbside.
		The Airport Express is a dedicated airport railway line providing fast and reliable service operating daily from 0600 to 0130 hours at 10-minute intervals.
	www10.org /Airport-Transportations.html (442 words)

	rec.travel guide to Hong Kong
		This is a big pavillion right on the southern tip of Tsim Sha Tsui It's mainly a bunch of concert halls for symphonies, plays, cultural events, etc. Along the waterfront there is a big observation deck with a phenomenal view of Hong Kong Island.
		After leaving the railway, the route came out alongside an 8 lane highway which disappeared into a tunnel after a while and I turned off into a park.
		Walking along the coast takes you all the way to Tsim Sha Tsui East and Hung Hom where the KCR Kowloon Station is. One of the more popular downtown jogging areas.
	www.math.toronto.edu /~joel/hongkong.html (11629 words)

	Travel - Hong Kong (Useful Information)
		Ticket is in the form of magnetic cards acquired from an electronic machine with correct coins inserted, price varies according to the distance of the journey.
		Train takes 30 minutes from East Tsim Sha Tsui Terminal in Kowloon through New Territories to Lo Wu, the border with China, Shen Zhen.
		Red colour taxis operate on Hong Kong Island and Kowloon, green in the New Territories and the blue on Lantau Island.
	www.west-meet-east.com /travelhktrans.htm (1481 words)

	Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The KCR East Rail was formerly known as the British Section of the Kowloon-Canton Railway before the construction the KCR West Rail.
		For KCR as a corporation, see Kowloon-Canton Railway Corporation The Kowloon-Canton Railway, frequently abbreviated as the KCR, is the railway network providing intercity, suburban and rapid transit passenger services in Hong Kong.
		NOTE: Unit E44 (cars 144-244-444) didn't undergo refurbishment, and one of the cars is now kept at the Tai Po Railway Museum for display.
	simple.seowaste.com /KCR (2083 words)

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