Hong Kong's Famous 120 YEAR OLD Double Decker Trams

Today we're in Hong Kong for the first time on the channel to ride the FAMOUS double-decker trams!

We'll be taking a ride along the 'mainline' from Kennedy Town to Murray Road, through the narrow streets and past famous skyline on the on the top deck of one of these 120 year old vehicles... so come with me and let's check it out together!

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Date of Filming: 27.9.24
Camera: GoPro Hero 12 Black
Operator: HK Tramways
Departure: Kennedy Town, Hong Kong
Arrival: Murray Road, Hong Kong
Cost: HK$3.00 (£0.29, €0.35, $0.40)

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00:00 - Intro
01:15 - Arrival at Kennedy Town Terminus
01:50 - Route & Network Information
02:30 - Boarding & Tram Tour
03:22 - History & Future of the Network
04:04 - Pricing
05:05 - Unique Liveries
05:25 - TRAM JAM!
06:05 - City Streets & Historic Skyline
06:50 - Arrival at Murray Road
07:20 - Outro

[azuma]

2:58 The plastic molded seats are actually on older trams that haven't received the latest refurbishment. One way to tell from the outside is by their destination indicator, the refurbished ones have the dot matrix display, although there were some in the middle of their refurbishment which had the dot matrix while still having the old interior. I would know as I used to commute on these trams weekly.

[Sacto]

A reason why they're still so heavily used is not only the cheap fares, but the fact it covers a lot of areas between major MTR stations.

[azuma]

People need to stop calling the Hong Kong MTR the MRT, that's in Singapore. 🥲

[lesley-annemclelland]

The good old "ding Ding" Tram on H.K. Island.

I well remember the old "Ding ding" when I lived in H.K. in the 1970's.

In fact the H.K. of the 1970's when I lived in Kowloon had so many unique ways to travel around, ricksaw (obviously🤭), taxi, bus (old, like really old, and new), ferries, Peak tram, P.L.B. (Public Light Transport).

The really old busses were really cool, in my view (I was only about 11/12 at the time I first saw and used them).

I loved the ferries where they had both passenger only and vehicular ferries. I think the best ferry, for me at least, was the good old Star ferry that ran from the Ocean Terminal ion Kowloon to Central on the island. Both Star Ferry and HYF (Hong Kong Yamati, sorry if I spelt that wrong) had First class seating🤔 and 2nd class seating.😟 !st class was on the upper deck whilst 2nd class was on the lower deck. Of course the most "exciting" part of these ferry trips was the arrival at the ferry terminals because as we approached the terminal a significant number of passengers would get up and move to whichever side of the ferry was going to be the disembarkation side which, naturally, gave the ferry a quite noticable in some cases, lean to that side.😄

I think though if you wanted the scariest ride of all then yopu had to ride on the P.L.B. 🤣 Unlike busses that had to stop at actual bus stops P.L.B.'s could, and did, stop literally anywhere and god help you if you were in a vehicle behind them when they suddenly, without any form of indication, dived across the road to the kerb to pick up of disembark a passenger or five.🤣

[Anee]

Was there last weekend. First thing I did was to hop on to the tram. Great way to get your bearings right. I find it very similar to Zurich and a great compliment to existing public transport network.

[daxianhe]

Have just been there days ago and taken the same route. These rolling stocks were actually manufactured in 1974 by the Hong Kong depot, but still magnificent.

[rezaalan]

Great trip. Definitely iconic transport in Hong Kong.

[dansharpe]

The Hong Kong underground is the "MTR". The "MRT" is in Singapore. Sorry to be pedantic but I grew up in Hong Kong and my dad was Chief Engineer of the MTR in the early days of construction.

[stuartparks]

Definitely the best way to get around Hong Kong island. And if you don't get stuck in traffic it's probably not much slower than the MTR as that is so deep it takes a while to get to

[MyBjornE]

When I was in Hong Kong, I didn't have time to ride the tram because of my job at the time.
Have ridden the tram in Hiroshima quite interesting and it was quite well developed

[LetsMakeaTrip]

I liked the ‘don’t lick the tram’ tram. My favourite tram system is Blackpool which is a bit like Hong Kong in a way (well it’s by the sea). Great video 👍

[markellis]

Love a tram.. Lisbon is still my favourite..

[josuaerick]

I'm a little surprised it doesn't have AC, even though the routes are short but still

[darwinqpenaflorida]

Wow Hong Kong Trams nice 😊😊

In Asia, trams are part of transportation during the colonial period, for example, Manila has trams from 1890s until 1945 serves in Escolta, Binondo, Malabon and others ☺️😊

In Indonesia, trams was built during the Dutch Colony in Batavia(today's Jakarta) and other cities like Medan, Surabaya and others before it disappeared in the 1970s but made a comback in Nusantara when the first trackless tram was commenced but made in China 😊😊

[TehCGaoSiewDai]

5:14 - 5:17 Lady in the tram ahead is waving at you.

[ludwigtails]

Just want to correct. It’s MTR not MRT.

[DanChan-qbec]

5:00 there is a fix livery which is a full dark green livery called HK tram green (yes that's the name of the colour), but you can hardly see it cus almost all the trams have advertisement on them all the times

[stanislavkostarnov]

Probably the Matsuyama Tram would be my favorite, I do really like the Hakodate one as well... also, I would say just for it's unique rolling stock, but also because of the way the hills shape it, I thoroughly enjoyed some of the Trams in San-Francisco (watching them even more-so than riding them though both are really amazing)
Grenoble has some really nice trams too, though, I would say it's more about the city being beautiful and nice to watch from a tram window than about the tram itself.

PS: I guess thesame should be said about the Tram in Jerusalem... whilst the tram itself is not really special, it just fits so well into the spirit of the Holy City and it's mood... it is just a small (almost insignificant to the point of being overlooked) part of it, but still

[ThunderMat_WT]

can you make a video about the Hong Kong MTR trains ? and Railway Museum please ?

[mak]

Utsonomiya, Japan's Lightline is an interesting tram