Everything tagged: terminus

The new lower terminus was constructed about 42 m uphill from the old one. It is located very near to the Helena May Institute below Cotton Tree Drive and above the Albany Nullah which flows through a 2.4 m wide culvert; it is still connected to the older terminus by staircases.  [outline is approximate]

A new terminus was necessary because the larger cars (6th generation) could not start from the old lower terminus because they were not able to ride the curved section immediately uphill from the terminus.

Terminal loop located at the junction of Connaught Road, Des Voeux Road and Hill Road. Probably not yet built when the tram started its operation in 1904. In the late 1920's, Petrol stations in Shek Tong Tsui [c.1929-c.1989] were built inside the loop.

Because the area was reconstructed - construction of the elevated Shing Sai Road - the loop was demolished in early 1989.

It was relocated further to the north-west in 1996, partly built on reclaimed land.

From: Kowloon Canton Railway (British Section) - A History 

page 55: 

A temporary railway track had been laid in a reserved section of Salisbury Road pending completion of a more permanent facility, and part of a godown belonging to the Hong Kong & Kowloon Wharf & Godown Company had been rented and turned into a temporary station building.

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