Twenty-first-century passengers of the MTR traveling on the Island Line probably do not realize that every time they travel past Sheung Wan Station, they are passing a true ghost station. In fact, for decades, commuters could peer directly into this subterranean void. In 1970, the Hong Kong government planned an East Kowloon Line—not to be confused with the modern East Rail Line—that would link Diamond Hill to the Sheung Wan and Central area at a station named Rumsey Station,