Peak Tramways shuttle services

Peak Tram was found in 1888. The construction works was started on 1885 and started the operation between Garden Road and the Victoria Peak since 30th May 1888. Operated by Hong Kong High Level Tramways Company, the Peak Tramways being the first railway system in Hong Kong.

In the nineties of twenty century, the Citybus offered a free shuttle bus services, which served between the Central Star Ferry Pier and the Lower Peak Tram Terminus, where is located on Garden Road behind the Hilton Hotel, with frequency every twenty minutes. Citybus specially converted three buses into open-top sight-seeing fleets for serving on the shuttle bus route. They are the AEC Routemaster, #3, and LEYLAND Olympian with ECW bodywork, #7, and with ROE bodywork, #17.

However, since 1st January 2000, that shuttle bus service was being cancelled and the New World First Bus operated the Route 15C, which is actually the same route compared with the previous free shuttle bus service. It can be said as a replacement but it charges HKD3 on every journey. Similar to the Citybus, the New World First Bus performed a conversion on a DENNIS Condor, DM6, to an open-top sight-seeing bus for serving on that route. And was being re-registered from ER1474 to JJ4786.