T99: Shanghai to Hong Kong

Continued from my earlier China posts:

At last the time came for what I had really been waiting for: the train journey from Shanghai to Hong Kong (actually to Hung Hom station). Not the way people from overseas travel, I was told. 'Why don't you catch a plane?' Others opined. 'It's faster'. Not for me, an aviophobic who takes the strongest sleeping pills he can in order to bring on a coma for those dreadful long haul flights that are needed from time to time. No, I was after the train.

With a smal