Peak Tram Lower Terminus (2nd generation) [1936-????]

Submitted by philk on Tue, 11/18/2008 - 15:08
Current condition
Demolished / No longer exists
Date completed
(Day & Month are approximate.)
Later place(s) at this location

Photos that show this Place

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Wasn't the lower terminus, with the site now occupied by St. John's Building (owned by The Hongkong & Shanghai Hotels, Limited, as is The Peak Tramways Co., Ltd., itself the home of one of the first Park N Shop outlets prior to its A.S. Watson Group days?  I seem to recall a shop there in the 1960s.

Hi,

 

After ballet lessons at the Helena May on Friday in the last 60s, I would always go to that Park'n'shop in the basement and hunt for raisin buns.  Mostly sold out.  Then hop on the Peak Tram home to Batman on TV.

 

I don't know when the Big Clock was added to the building, so I don't know the dates for the photos above.  I randomly picked decades for the before/after clock photos.

The HK Heritage Project site has an unlinkable timeline about the tramway, with four mentions for the lower station:

  • 1889. Garden Road Station opened.
  • 1935. New lower terminus built. St John's Apartments were built to replace Garden Road wooden station as the Peak Tram's lower terminus.
  • 1964. Lower terminus modernised. St. John's Building replaced St. John's Apartments to house the lower terminus.
  • 1983. Lower terminus further enhanced. A new St. John's Building was built to replace the old one.