Intercity train T817 emerges from the 2.4km Beacon Hill Tunnel and passes through Kowloon Tong Station.

T804 has left the crowded Kowloon Peninsula for the mountains of the New Territories. Not too far ahead and just over the border with China is Shenzhen, another large city.

Chinese locomotives and crews do not meet KCR trains anymore , instead of MTR trains .