The Hong Kong Railway Museum is a railway museum in Tai Po, Hong Kong. It is now under the management of the Leisure and Cultural Service Department. Opened on 20 December 1985, it is located at the site where the old Tai Po Market railway station was built in 1913. Admission to the museum is free.
The station in 2003
Exhibition gallery include historical pictures and artifacts that help chronicle the story of how the railways developed in Hong Kong
6 historical coaches are inside the museum
Steam locomotive W.G.Bagnall 0-4-4T
Tai Po is an area in the New Territories of Hong Kong. It refers to the vicinity of the traditional market towns in the area presently known as Tai Po Old Market or Tai Po Kau Hui (大埔舊墟) on the north of Lam Tsuen River and the Tai Po Hui on Fu Shin Street on the south of the Lam Tsuen River, near the old Tai Po Market railway station of the Kowloon-Canton Railway. Both market towns became part of the Tai Po New Town in the late 1970s and early 1980s. In present-day usage, "Tai Po" may refer to the area around the original market towns, the Tai Po New Town, or the entire Tai Po District.
Aerial view of Tai Po New Town, including Tai Po Market
Tai Po Market. Older low-level buildings in the foreground contrast with high-rise commercial buildings in the distance
Lam Tsuen River
Tai Po Central Town Square