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Hong Kong Railway Museum 香港铁路博物馆Xiānggǎng Tiělù Bówùguǎn
Declared monument · Hong Kong, Hong Kong
- Time needed
- 1–2 hours
- Days to budget
- Half a day
- City
- Hong Kong
- Region
- Hong Kong
- Type
- Heritage
- Listed as
- Declared monument
About Hong Kong Railway Museum
The old Tai Po Market Railway Station, completed in 1913 with a Chinese-style pitched roof when other stations on the Kowloon-Canton Railway were Western in design, is now an open-air railway museum. The station building holds an exhibition gallery, the old booking office and a signal cabin, and the grounds display a narrow-gauge steam locomotive, diesel-electric engines, historic coaches, trolleys and semaphores. The station closed when a new one opened nearby in 1983, and the museum opened in 1985.
How to get to Hong Kong Railway Museum
At 13 Shung Tak Street, about 0.5 km south-east of Tai Wo MTR station, which the museum's directions give as a 10-minute walk from Exit B; closed on Tuesdays except public holidays.
Nearby
- Victoria Harbour 维多利亚港 20 km
Glass towers and green hills around a harbour you can cross in ten minutes - Victoria Peak 太平山顶 20 km
Ride the 1888 funicular to the skyline view, then walk the Lugard Road loop - Tian Tan Buddha & Ngong Ping 天坛大佛与昂坪 30 km
A giant bronze Buddha on Lantau, reached by a 25-minute cable car ride
Also within 20 km: Man Mo Temple, Tai Po 大埔文武二帝庙 (under 10 km), Old Tai Po Police Station (Green Hub) 旧大埔警署 (under 10 km), Old District Office North 旧北区理民府 (under 10 km), King Law Ka Shuk, Tai Po Tau Tsuen 敬罗家塾 (under 10 km), Fan Sin Temple and Wun Yiu Kilns 上碗窑樊仙宫及碗窑 (under 10 km), Island House, Tai Po 前政务司官邸 (under 10 km).
On the map
Open Hong Kong Railway Museum on the illustrated map to see the terrain around it and what else is close, and to add it to a trip.
Open Hong Kong Railway Museum on the map