The person third from the right in this photo is the late Timothy Runnacles formerly Principal Transport Officer (Urban Transport Operations) with the HK Government. Highly qualified in his field, Tim was a transport enthusiast with a wealth of anecdotes on transport operations in Hong Kong.
Tim’s obituary in the Railway Gazette 14th May 2022
It is with sadness that we report that Timothy Vernon Runnacles died at the end of April.
From 1983 until 2004 Tim was Railway Gazette International’s correspondent and contributor in Hong Kong, covering developments there and in mainland China.
Holding Master’s Degrees in Transport from Imperial College in London and in Geography from Fitzwilliam College at the University of Cambridge, Tim was a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Logistics & Transport. He was one of the world’s leading experts on light rail systems with specialist knowledge of all forms of electric transport.
From 1978 until 1993 he worked for Hong Kong government’s transport department, becoming Principal Transport Officer (Urban Transport Operations) in 1989. During his time with the department he was responsible for much of the planning of the Tuen Mun light rail system.
He later became an independent transport consultant, advising on the design and development of transport projects in many cities, including Abu Dhabi, Urumqi, Dublin, Shenzhen, Moscow, Kuala Lumpur, Calcutta and Johannesburg.
Thanks degahkg for your info! I met Tim in Hong Kong ten years ago, at first impressed by his camera with telephoto lens while he was taking photos on trams at Sheung Wan terminus near Western Market. He has contributed to the new edition "Hongkong Tramways" book with fruitful details, his generosity on providing me photos and his working papers which have been invaluable in supplementing and researching tram history. I was lucky to have his generous foreword (and sadly the last) for my Chinese tram book published in 2022.
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Timothy Runnacles
The person third from the right in this photo is the late Timothy Runnacles formerly Principal Transport Officer (Urban Transport Operations) with the HK Government. Highly qualified in his field, Tim was a transport enthusiast with a wealth of anecdotes on transport operations in Hong Kong.
Tim’s obituary in the Railway Gazette 14th May 2022
It is with sadness that we report that Timothy Vernon Runnacles died at the end of April.
From 1983 until 2004 Tim was Railway Gazette International’s correspondent and contributor in Hong Kong, covering developments there and in mainland China.
Holding Master’s Degrees in Transport from Imperial College in London and in Geography from Fitzwilliam College at the University of Cambridge, Tim was a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Logistics & Transport. He was one of the world’s leading experts on light rail systems with specialist knowledge of all forms of electric transport.
From 1978 until 1993 he worked for Hong Kong government’s transport department, becoming Principal Transport Officer (Urban Transport Operations) in 1989. During his time with the department he was responsible for much of the planning of the Tuen Mun light rail system.
He later became an independent transport consultant, advising on the design and development of transport projects in many cities, including Abu Dhabi, Urumqi, Dublin, Shenzhen, Moscow, Kuala Lumpur, Calcutta and Johannesburg.
Memoir of Tim
Thanks degahkg for your info! I met Tim in Hong Kong ten years ago, at first impressed by his camera with telephoto lens while he was taking photos on trams at Sheung Wan terminus near Western Market. He has contributed to the new edition "Hongkong Tramways" book with fruitful details, his generosity on providing me photos and his working papers which have been invaluable in supplementing and researching tram history. I was lucky to have his generous foreword (and sadly the last) for my Chinese tram book published in 2022.