Evolution of the Hong Kong MTR 1910-2022 (geographic map)

An animation that shows the expansion of the HongKong MTR starting from the opening of the KCR line in 1910.
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[@ktho97930]

I am a Hongkonger. I am a bit touched to see the progress and development of my city over the time period of more than a century through the lens of railway development in this video. Thanks for your good work!

[@muhammadfariz2839]

Is there some progress for Kai Tak Monorail? Anyway, I think about what if MTR build Whampoa - North Point Tunnel? So they can make Kwung Tong Line a circle line. I also think about what if they convert Peak Tram into metro standard train (example: Lyon Metro Line C) and merge it with East Rail/Tsuen Wan Line, or one of them merge with South Island Line. Are those three ideas possible? And I think it's better for Tseung Kwan O Line to extend to the south, maybe until Ocean Park Station.

[@RT-qk6jg]

What’s a hongkonger?

[@isaaciscool99969]

@@RT-qk6jg Person living in Hong kong

[@AidenLo]

以前紅磡叫做九龍😂

[@OO1partTV]

I'm Hong Kong Too

[@toshiyukiaramori8288]

Great work but a little miss: The East Rail Line once had a short Wo Hop Shek branch from Fanling to Wo Hop Shek, which is mainly used for transporting corpses to the cemetery located there Which is closed shortly before full electrification of the line in 1983

[@Timberlakenothere]

睇小薯茄先知😂

[@manlimho9125]

Was going to say that too! It was an interesting part of the railway history.

[@Yamato725_YT]

A Great Thank You From Hong Kong! 謝謝你！ （香港人麻煩like吓XD）

[@jonseilim4321]

所以新加坡人不可以+1？[doge]

[@Yamato725_YT]

@@jonseilim4321 冇話唔得喎QQ

[@VivianLiu-xf2hp]

我係

[@1UPWonders]

Always love these videos! It feels like nothing really happened until the 70’s and 80’s and then suddenly an explosion of growth in the lines and network. Also I forgot there’s a Disneyland in Hong Kong lol 😅

[@mccammell4470]

Cuz the population starts growing after the 1950s, before that time Hong Kong doesn’t quite need a mass transit

[@hongkonger885]

No wonder you will forget it, it’s the smallest in the whole world

[@fresagrus4490]

If you want an explanation: people romanticize Hong Kong's period as a british possession but the thing is their disregard for it as merely a colony. It had no sort executive or legislative elections at all, just an appointed governor as if it was a department of a company. The difference of investment after China regained it is visible. It still has serious problems such as its precarious housing situation but in british days it literally had slums. If this isn't visible enough in the video already, Hong Kong becomes China in 1997

[@matthewfong2976]

@@fresagrus4490 ccp bot moment

[@csy9366]

@@fresagrus4490 Life was definitely better before 1997, there was proper consultation, and freedom of speech and rally are protected. CCP bots and leftist like to make everything "housing problem", huh. It worked in USSR and China, but it won't work here. You cannot brainwash us and rile us up against the landlord because we are not ignorant to history. The best you can do is to use force to silence and arrest us.

[@hermanseville1885]

I am dying to visit Hong Kong again once they announce they will open borders and accept tourists. Every year I would visit them to ride their MTRs, ding ding trams and buses till Covid happened. Hoping to step into my second home city again soon.

[@haastee9913]

Pavement is totally destroyed

[@sangyoonsim]

I love train line connecting together!

[@ulysseslee9541]

Some detail information: In detail, there are several rail track changes at KCR East Rail Line, such as Hung Hum to Lo Wu change to double track during electrification(1975-1983), new high speed track (allow train run in 80-120kmh) to replace the old, sharp turn track along Tolu Harbour (from new Tai Po Market to Ma Liu Shui/University)

[@hongkonger885]

The fact that Hong Kong is so small, so the MTR has not much to work on right now. But there are a few proposals: the east Kowloon line, north island line, South Island line (west), northern link, tung Chung west extension, and the tuen men south extension. Currently none of these are being built

[@stalexeve]

Hong Kong is not small there is only too much hills and stuff. I think MTR much too much focus on new towns and ignore the old things

[@Bopper_]

@@stalexeve no

[@kingmine]

@@stalexeve yea, definitely too much hills

[@vincentng2392]

Unfortunately there's no direct link (not through Kowloon) between Tsuen Wan and Sha Tin.

[@李景贤-b9t]

I am amazed to know how much of the MTR was built after 1997 (not before)!

[@leobragaurbe]

Yayyy I've waited for like one year for this video ✨✨

[@frankcheung99]

This is amazing! I used to live in Hong Kong, between 1982 to 1990.

[@alisonhui]

Yau Ma Tei station was called Waterloo since it was on Waterloo Road.

[@adriannleungg]

So proud of my city 🇭🇰

[@HEDTransportationChannel7019]

Also, Tuen Ma Line here!

[@harang9759]

Yay! I’ve been waiting for this video to come. Thank you for fulfilling my dreams!

[@saya680]

屯馬開通真的很興奮~

[@tadd8858]

紅磡過海真的很興奮

[@laujunming4152]

Yikes, the Sha Tau Kok railway has a wacky alignment, especially between Wo Hang and Shek Chung Au. Was that because of Hong Kong’s mountainous terrain?

[@hommagat2587]

Yes

[@pbworld7858]

@@hommagat2587 What is at Sha Tau Kok nowadays? So it's not worth having a railway line there now? I wonder whether it would be worth having a rail link to Sai Kung.

[@hommagat2587]

@@pbworld7858 basically nothing, there are buses running there tho so no point having a railway line

[@mccammell4470]

Thanks for making Hong Kong’s

[@mccammell4470]

Here are some reminders: At the start, Tai Po Kau Station should be named 大埔 Tai Po, KCR renamed it to 大埔滘 Tai Po Kau at 1966 There’s also a Wo Hop Shek Branch operates by KCR that runs between Fanling and Wo Hop Shek (South of Fanling), the branch opened in 1949 and closed in 1983 Tung Chung Line opened at 22/6/1998, instead of 21/6/1998

[@Chestnut5113]

yess finally hong kong mtr the bgm is so fantasy

[@am5b20]

If the landscape of the map can also change together, this will be much more impressing

[@universe1879]

6:27 LOHAS park extends from Tseung Kwan O line, not Po Lam

[@EmperorKingBlackKnightKeisuke2]

I'm giving to you making this map evolutions this map. 1000/10!

[@kelvintuenmaline7989]

Thank You

[@AngryMarrow]

Again asking to do Evolution of Tbilisi Metro. Nice vids BTW.

[@haru323]

漢字があってわかりやすい😆

[@tuberhang0902]

Where's wo ha shek branch in 20th century?

[@alankwongwailun]

information mistake, Wo Hop Shek Branch Line started service in 11 May, 1950 and ended in 10 April, 1983.

[@squidgame2021]

Great visualisation! Just wanted to know the reason behind not capitalising 'line' for the MTR lines (eg Kwun Tong line instead of Kwun Tong Line), because you did capitalise it in your other videos. If you are referring to Wikipedia, that site is wrong by the way. Capitalising suggests 'line' is part of the proper name for MTR lines and should be listed in the key as Tsuen Wan Line, Kwun Tong Line, Island Line, Tung Chung Line etc instead of Tsuen Wan, Kwun Tong, Island, Tung Chung etc. Even if this is not and line is only a common noun, this is good practice as these names on its own will more likely refer to the station rather than the line.

[@FusionZenFlame]

Yay I've been waiting on this! :D

[@HEDTransportationChannel7019]

MTR!

[@kelvinho4615]

Thank you for the hard work

[@yusufmertustun]

Istanbul and Tbilisi would be great as a your video :))

[@optics1818]

Missing out High Speed Railway.

[@chingkwok8489]

New I know more Hong Kong history thank you (I am born and live in Hong Kong)

[@SubwayLoverLing]

香港的港岛电车，轻铁，太平山顶缆车，昂平360缆车，海洋公园缆车，机场APM，启德环保运输系统也很有趣

[@miguellucido2113]

5:58 I remember this line for October or November 2019 for live the station at DRL and all ahead the bus shuttle to the hotel 🥳

[@yatstransportbureau8848]

2:28 When they split into two lines, I just want to know how the trains on the Tseun Wan Line turn back after terminating at Mong Kok? I know that the Up and Down line platforms in Mong Kok are in different levels and have no crossover between them.

[@elbandano2721]

The Sha Tau Kok remind me the Catskills NY Railway (that was closed by the construction of highway and the bus and truck services)

[@NalanzFCandAviationemojicats]

Well United KCR was missed a lot

[@OO1partTV]

Mong Kok-Argyle Yaumatei-Waterloo Mongkok East-Mong Kok

[@jacoanimationstudio-di7hi]

If I had a dollar for every time an urban railway and/or subway system skipped a racecourse station on one side, I’d have two dollars, which isn’t a lot but weird it happened twice…

[@Joao-dp2tr]

Lisbon or Porto next please!!

[@DoglikeplayRobloxgame]

Where is High speed rail?????????

[@fusionreactor7179]

Do İstanbul please, extend it to 2040 too

[@kaitsunjohnwashingtonfung4552]

Note that Fo Tan and Racecourse are actually in two separate loops.

[@mikemuitv]

Awesome metro liner

[@Aiden8-bits]

My favourite station is Exhibition centre because there's a nuclear bomb from World War 2 in the station that the workers found while working.

[@BloggerAndyLeung]

It is just bomb, not nuclear bomb 😅 It was American ANM65 bomb found in the station construction site

[@Aiden8-bits]

@@BloggerAndyLeung oh

[@rain-vo8ib]

pls do manila

[@Andrewjg_89]

Hong Kong has evolved when it was occupied by the British and the railways also evolved. And China took over Hong Kong in 1997 under its “One County, Two Systems” policy.

[@jakin3035]

As a hongkonger, this is true

[@klmtStudiohk]

Hong Kong History of MTR 香港的港鐵歷史

[@nickfarhanipour1035]

Can you do Sydney next please

[@supercameramanofficial]

imagine saying the ‘Kok’ word loudly

[@onon99_doggo]

this is incredible

[@SeanGeeE]

Excellent animation, but the map back then should be different due to reclamation.

[@pcpicker7268]

Without Wo Hop Shek Spur Line

[@skyishu]

Wow Hong Kong subway is here in before toothbrush is invented

[@choedward167]

You missed Wo Hop Shek Branch

[@fungc.h.9753]

和合石支線呢？

[@aapaavishu]

Dose anyone know how to animate these lines? What applications to use and where can I learn?

[@tristanlok8727]

人心人心心心心心❤❤❤❤

[@RoninKahO]

I am sorry to comment the another metro map better than yours, at least they can mention the history with changes of line strengthening and stations

[@vietinternational5746]

Hong Kong mtr yummy for my tunmy

[@MarcusMoMain]

Yes finally

[@alexandrpoznukhov4395]

Спасибо, интересно. Не понятно, почему многие маршруты дублируются??

[@Kirbusplayz]

2:29 it says mrt not mtr

[@catladderhk]

棺材支線無左既。唔詳盡。

[@jjii908]

精彩

[@ehrenbro5450]

Make Stuttgart (Germany) please

[@CristinaLopez-ix5cr]

la musica de fondo es muy triste

[@HEYTORCED0R]

Faz um vídeo da supervia pfv

[@Ericman0328]

你好，我哋而家孩子我真係Journey

[@dicksonchan204]

🎉

[@zhou.9574]

that was a Hongkong Macao Z huh air bridge in 1910 lol

[@zhou.9574]

zhuhai

[@papasou1210]

4th comment

[@窮途非末路絕處可逢生]

期待將來的北環線，連接北部和西部，話唔定沙頭角線可能會重新發展連接埋深圳以東

[@Benny_804]

西鐵改口叫屯馬線好難😂

[@danibro98]

🇭🇰🇭🇰🇭🇰

[@MitaAkters-q6k]

Davis Laura Lee Dorothy Thomas Angela

[@Fluster]

👍

[@LuckyLucky-l9f]

1979你世界嗎?

[@samsonwong9298]

唔導

[@ДэниМиша]

А можешь сделать метро в всех странах СССР кроме Украины.

[@HWLui]

See.hong Kong is not a city in China

[@jaanahsieh]

Too slow development. The west coast ignored shows how shortsighted the hk government was.

[@jacobringenwald]

You should do Philadelphia at some point

[@MaxCheng95]

YES! Finally my second bucket list is up. Thanks a bunch A correction here: Mong Kok East was called Mong Kok by the KCR until it merges with MTR. There were actually two Mong Kok stations coexist simultaneously.

[@MetroLiner]

Yay! Was the other one Taipei? Is there any other city you would like to see?

[@MaxCheng95]

@@MetroLiner Yeah, the other one is Taipei. There are several system in my mind but most of them are too small for a good sizable video. But I do hope for a remake for some older systems like New York or Beijing for higher quality

[@Nina-ed2ju]

You forgot cablecar

[@hongkonger885]

@@Nina-ed2ju nah I wouldn’t consider the cable car as a ‘metro’ after all

[@kingmine]

you made a naming mistakes here tuen ma line was called tuen ma line phase 1 before merging to west rail line

[@easternhouse]

Large population in Pok Fu Lam, Cyber Port, Wah Fu Estate, Aberdeen in Hong Kong Island South have been waiting MTR for over 10 years… 😓😓😓

[@py8554]

Back in 1911, it’s definitely not called Mong Kok East. It should be Yaumatei and later changed to Mongkok. “East” was added to distinguish it from the MTR Mongkok station when MTR and KCR merged.

[@ChadWSmith]

COOL! I haven't been down to HK since January 2020. It's good to know the next time I go I can take the East Rail Line all the way to the Island Line. That's going to save me some walking to be sure! I did not expect anything to have been built or expanded since 2018.

[@ESC_jackqulen]

I haven't been since 2019 so I am as excited as you are. The east rail line expansion (commonly known as the "4th harbour crossing line" in Chinese) was planned as early as the 2000s. The B1M channel made a really good video about the whole construction and the reason that came behind it (over reliance of tsuen Wan line)

[@OriginStudio2021]

MTR!!!

[@tonai]

I really love your work. You may be one of my fav channels by now. I wish there was a metro in Krakow so you could make a video abt it...

[@yichengmetro]

What a great work! I also hope you can make a video of Guangzhou Metro in your free time!

[@NexoProTC]

For Asia, what about making Tashkent metro ?

[@Nikita_Prime]

Please do Bangkok subway🇹🇭

[@juwan3113]

Free Hong Kong! 🇭🇰

[@pbworld7858]

I just came back from HK. To go to the airport from Kowloon, I took the MTR to Tung Chung then it was a short cheap bus ride to the airport. Saved a lot of money that way. Much cheaper than the Airport Express, and cheaper and quicker than a direct bus from Kowloon. All in all, MTR is great. Efficient, clean and cheap. So glad KCR merged with MTR.

[@user-OuO87OuO]

who is hong kong people ⬇️

[@R211Kawasaki]

YAY THX

[@kelvintuenmaline7989]

But not shown wo hop shek spur line.