Former Kowloon-Canton Railway Clock Tower

This guide to the Former Kowloon-Canton Railway Clock Tower in Hong Kong follows the harbourside terminus it once anchored, opened in nineteen sixteen as the crossing point between the colony and mainland China. It traces the station's decline once the railway moved to Hung Hom in the nineteen seventies, and a 1978 demolition announcement that set off a public campaign, petitions, and an appeal all the way to Queen Elizabeth II. Look up at the bell inside, cast in Loughborough, England in nineteen nineteen, and picture the crowds who once passed children through train windows here during the Ching Ming Festival.