Hong Kong Tram Fleet

1987 type car 1

1950 type car 7

Trailer 17

“Vintage” Tour Cars 28 + 128

“Historic” Car 120

Fleet list (Fleet Numbers, Type, Builder, Years Built, Info, Notes)

1900s
• 1-16 : 1904 : Electric Rly & Tramway Carriage works : 1904 : single deck cross-bench : note 1)
• 17-26 : 1904 : Electric Rly & Tramway Carriage works : 1904 : single deck combination (California) : note 1)
• 27-36 : 1905 : Electric Rly & Tramway Carriage works : 1905 : single deck cross-bench : note 1)

1910s
• 37-46 : 1912 : Hong Kong & Whampoa Dock Co. : 1912 : open-top double deck : notes 2) 3)
• 47-80 : 1918 : Hong Kong & Whampoa Dock Co. : 1918-23 : open-top double deck with canvas roofs : note 4)

1920s
• 81-86 : 1925 : HKT : 1925-26 : totally-enclosed double deck

1930s
• 87-91 : 1925 : HKT : 1931 : totally-enclosed double deck
• 92-97 : 1925 : HKT : 1935 : totally-enclosed double deck
• 98-103 : 1925 : HKT : 1938 : totally-enclosed double deck
• 104-107 : 1925 : HKT : 1939 : totally-enclosed double deck

1940s
• 108-109 : 1925 : HKT : 1940 : totally-enclosed double deck
• 110-112 : 1925 : HKT : 1948 : totally-enclosed double deck
• 113-119 : 1925 : HKT : 1949 : totally-enclosed double deck
• 120 : 1949 : HKT : 1949 : prototype double deck

1950s
• 121-124 : 1950 : HKT : 1950-64 : double deck
• 126-127 : 1950 : HKT : 1950-64 : double deck
• 147-157 : 1950 : HKT : 1950-64 : double deck
• 125 : 1950 : Taikoo Dockyard & Engineering : 1950-64 : double deck
• 128-146 : 1950 : Taikoo Dockyard & Engineering : 1950-64 : double deck
• 158-162 : 1950 : Taikoo Dockyard & Engineering : 1950-64 : double deck
• 1-119″ : 1950 : HKT : Taikoo or Hong Kong & Whampoa : 1950-64 : double deck : notes 5) 13)
• 200 : 1950 : HKT : 1956 : single deck works car (tank car) : note 6)

1960s
• Trailer 1 : 1950 : Taikoo Dockyard & Engineering : 1964 : single deck trailer : note b7)
• Trailers 2-11 : – : Metal Sections : 1965-66 : single deck trailers : note 9)
• Trailers 12-21 : – : Metal Sections : 1967 : single deck trailers : note 9)
• Trailer 22 : – : HKT : 1967 : single deck trailer : note 10)

1970s
• 163 : 1950 : Taikoo Dockyard & Engineering : 1979 : double deck : note 8)

1980s
• 28”’ : Vintage : HKT : 1984-85 : historic car open balcony double deck : note 11)
• 128”’ : Vintage : HKT : 1986 : historic car half open-top double deck : note 12)
• 201 : 1950 : Taikoo Dockyard & Engineering : 1989 : note 13)
• cars 6”’, 36”’, 39”’, 41”’, 46”’, 80”’, 88”’, 89”’, 121”’, 127”’, 139”’, 141”’, 143/4”’, 159”’ : 1986 : HKT : 1986-87 : refurbished double decker : note 14)
• cars 1-27””, 29-43””, 45-119””, 121-127”’, 129-143”’, 145-162”’, 163”, 165-166 : 1987 : Full Arts or Leeway Engineering : 1987-1991 : replacement double decker : notes 15) 16) 17)

1990s
• 120″” : “1987” : HKT : 1991 : historic car with 1950s type body : note 18)
• Birkenhead 69-70 : 1950 : HKT : 1992 : standard gauge double deck
• 200″ : 1987 : HKT : 1998 : works car (half open-top) double deck

2000s
• 168-171 : 2000 : HKT : 2000-200x : modern bus-style bodies double deck : note 19)
• 300 : Vintage : HKT : 2007 : works car (open balcony) double deck diesel powered

2010s
• 168″ : 2011 : HKT : 2011 : double deck : note 20)
• 171″, 172-175 : 2011 : HKT : 2011 : double deck : note 21)
• various (1-166) : 2011 : HKT : 2011-ongoing : double deck (replacement of the 1987 type trams which will take a few years to complete) : note 22)
• 400 : 2011 : HKT : 2013 : works car double deck

Notes:
1) at least 3 cars rebuilt in 1907 to “fully enclosed” (nos. not known)
2) ten new cars – the other 18 are rebuilds (new bodies) of older cars incl. all of the California cars
3) by 1924 all had received canvas roofs
4) from 1923 some (incl. no.63) received timber roofs
5) trucks and equipment from older cars
6) replaced three older works cars (of which there is little information available); scrapped in 1984
7) rebuilt into double deck motor car no.163 in 1979
8 ) ex trailer 1
9) scrapped in 1982
10) scrapped in 1979
11) rebuilt from 1950s type car no.119
12) rebuilt from 1950s type car no.59
13) no.100 rebuilt into works car (water car) no.201 in 1989; scrapped in 1990
14) rebuilt from 1950s type cars; scrapped in 1991
15) new underframes, new bodies but old trucks and equipment (from 1950s type car)
16) no.165 was first numbered 44 and no. 166 was first numbered 144
17) in 1991-1992 the 1986 rebuilds got scrapped and replaced by new 1987 design cars
18) built with parts from 1950s type car no.86
19) no.171 equipped with air-conditioning but never carried passengers (body survives in depot)
20) the modern bus-style body replaced with new standard 2011 body
21) no.172 was the prototype and the body is much more like type 1987; no.171″ first numbered 1 when new, no.173 first numbered 2 when new, no.174 first numbered 3 when new
22) none of the “special cars” 28, 120, 128, 200 have been converted so far and it is not known if these will be dealt with at all at a later stage

1986 type car 143 (these cars had a different rear end – there was a kind of shaped rain panel just below the roof)

Type 2000 (“Millennium”) Cars 168 + 170 + 171′ (the air-con tram that never ran in regular service)

Type 2011 Car 171″

Type 2011 Car 172 (this prototype of the new fleet has a body that looks like the 1987 type!)

Workscars 200 + 300 + 400

(some of the photos are courtesy of Joseph Tse – shown on front of tram 171′ – who also helped me with the fleet list)