Captioned "A locomotive crosses the railway bridge at Lo Wu between British and Hong Kong territories. Border officials supervise the immigration into British territories in the background ", photo from the PA Images collection via Getty Images:
https://www.gettyimages.com.au/detail/news-photo/locomotive-crosses-the…
Date picture taken
12 May 1950
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Identifying the locomotive
This locomotive doesn't look like one of the KCR ex-War Department Austerity 2-8-0 locomotives:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KCR_ex-WD_Austerity_2-8-0
Possibly one of the American built UNRRA locomotives instead, as mentioned here:
https://gwulo.com/media/19595
A question about the date
I'm also not 100% sure as to the date of this photo - original source is quite specific at saying "12 May 1950".
The original bridge was demolished in WW2, and this photo dated "not before 1949" shows a temporary Bailey Bridge across the river.
https://collections.lib.uwm.edu/digital/collection/agsphoto/id/23574/re…
This photo also "not before 1949" shows a steel truss bridge.
https://collections.lib.uwm.edu/digital/collection/agsphoto/id/23289/re…
While Wikipedia has an unsourced statement saying the replacement bridge was not completed in 1957.
https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E7%BE%85%E6%B9%96%E6%A9%8B
Re: Identifying the locomotive
This locomotive was a China railway class KD7 supplied by UNRRA. This type was the last steam locomotives built by United States for China.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China_Railways_KD7