Kowloon Canton Railway (KCR) near Lowu China Border 1911

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Kowloon Canton Railway (KCR) near Lowu China Border 1911

source : KCR

Date picture taken
1911
Shows place(s)
Tai Shek Mo / Crest Hill [????- ]
Shows organisation(s)
KCR - Kowloon Canton Railway ( British Section) [1910-2007]
CKR - Canton Kowloon Railway (Hong Kong - China) [1911- ]

Comments

I think this shows the view from the Chinese side of the border, so we are looking more or less south with Tai Shek Mo on the right. The white building is located, more or less, where the current Immigration control building is today.

I wonder if this bridge is the one we can see in the image above?

Crest Hill is on the right side of the image, as I mentioned in my comment. So we are looking back into HK side from China.

from the China (Shenzhen) side ? But the European style house (lowu station ?) in the picture was located south of Shenzhen River ( in HK), if that is the case, the photo might be taken from the HK side ?

If you go to https://www.hkmaps.hk/viewer.html and view the 1924.1 aerial images for the area, you can quite clearly see that the building was located on the north side of the river, not the south.

Edit: in case of difficulty finding the images, here is the view of the Lo Wu border crossing circa 1924 showing the dark roofed building on the north side of the river.

Lowu Border Crossing 1924, by philk

Great website !!!

https://www.checkerboardhill.com/

Marcus Wong : train nut, amateur photographer, and software developer. He live in Melbourne, Australia having grown up an hour down the road in Geelong.

His Dad is from Hong Kong, and it is where his part of the family lives: unfortunately he haven’t been able to visit Hong Kong as often as he likes !

Thanks IDJ for that link. Marcus' site has long been a useful resource, especially for train-related history.