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On the Rails in Hong Kong

Trams have a snooty French owner, upgrades, loud rumbles from the past

Aug 20, 2023
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By: Anthony Spaeth

When you live along Hong Kong’s tram line, you awake each morning to carriages juddering over tracks, steel on steel. When your aluminum-framed windows are open, the sound is sharp and regular, with the occasional double ring of a bell, an admonition to pedestrians that always sounds like the driver is having a jolly day.

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