Скачать или смотреть Hong Kong Buses - MTR K65 to Lau Fau Shan 流浮山

We ride the K65 service from end to end, Yuen Long to Lau Fau Shan. As far as I am aware, this service started as KMB's 24 in 1961, becoming 55 in 1973. In 1988, this was one of several routes compulsorily transferred from KMB to KCRC as part of the introduction of the Transit Service Area, an area monopoly designed to protect the new LRT system from bus competition, and it was renumbered 655. It remained 655 until, I believe, the MTR merger in 2007.

We travel on 142, an ADL Enviro 400, one of a batch of nine 70-seaters delivered in August 2012.

At Lau Fau Shan, we walk quickly through the famous wet market (not a busy time) and take in views of Deep Bay (as it is traditionally known) and the Shenzhen Bay Bridge connecting Hong Kong with the PRC, which was officially opened in July 2007.

We finish by riding back to Tin Shui Wai station, where we see a couple of MTR's Enviro 200s (new in 2008/9), as well as a number of double deckers parked up in the little-used bus station there. Probably the most interesting is 227, a Northern Counties-bodied Volvo Olympian originally purchased by KCRC, which is one of the oldest vehicles in the MTR bus fleet, dating from 1997.

You can see more of my visit to this area in my Yuen Long and Tuen Mun videos.

Filmed 29th April 2014.