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The Queen will learn that the most distinctive item of moving
mechanical equipment in the completed station will be a locomotive
"traverser" - a huge trolley which can carry locomotives laterally from
track to track, so that an engine can, for example, be switched from one
end of its own train to the other.
The idea of moving the present terminus from Tsim Sha Tsui
derives in part from a wish for better land utilisation.
The terminus
is vacating a useful but rather cramped site at Tsim Sha Tsui in exchange
for a larger area at Hung Hom. But the chief objective is to build a
modern and capacious station which will dramatically enhance Hong Kong'a
transportation facilities.