Mountain route
Peak Tram
Hong Kong (Garden Road) → Victoria Peak · Hong Kong
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Asia’s first funicular (1888), climbing almost 400 m over the Victoria Harbour skyline — four million riders a year on 6th-generation cars.
Stations
- 0 kmGarden Road
- 0 kmMacDonnell Road
- 1 kmBarker Road
The stations OpenStreetMap lists for this service, in order, with the distance along the line as drawn here. A train may skip some of them.
How this line was checked
- Line drawn from OpenStreetMap relation 3264047 — the same nodes OpenStreetMap holds for this railway, thinned to within under 25 m of them
- Checked against OpenStreetMap: the whole line lies on real track, a median 2 m from it
- The operator publishes this line's timetable: the railway’s own site — a place to look it up, not a check of our drawing
- Wikipedia has an article for this line
- See for yourself: open this line on the map with OpenStreetMap's own railway drawn underneath it
Questions and answers
How long is the Peak Tram?
The Peak Tram runs 1.36 km from Hong Kong (Garden Road) to Victoria Peak.
How long does the Peak Tram take?
The fastest scheduled journey is 5 min for the 1.36 km. That is an average of 16 km/h end to end. The line's top service speed is 21 km/h.
Who runs the Peak Tram?
Peak Tramways (HSH), with 6th-generation 210-passenger cars by CWA (2022).
How old is the Peak Tram?
The line has been in service since 1888. That is the year the atlas dates it from: for a modern brand running over an older railway, it is the railway's date, not the brand's.
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