The Island line is one of ten lines of the MTR, the mass transit system in Hong Kong. It runs from Kennedy Town in the Western district to Chai Wan in the Eastern District on Hong Kong Island. It pass
Platform 2 to Kennedy Town at Causeway Bay station
Plaque of MTR Island line opening ceremony held at Tai Koo station on 31 May 1985 by Sir Edward Youde, then governor of Hong Kong.
Admiralty station, Island line platform
Train approaching Heng Fa Chuen station
Sir Charles Wilfrid Newton was the managing director of Hong Kong's Mass Transit Railway Corporation in the 1980s and chairman of London Regional Transport in the 1990s.
Newton as chairman of the Mass Transit Railway Corporation in 1986