Hong Kong train driver’s antics have passengers laughing as MTR clips go viral

A video clip in which a Hong Kong train driver can be heard imitating a recorded passenger announcement in an MTR carriage has gone viral online, along with two others involving the rail giant’s staff, with internet users applauding the workers’ creative and personal approaches.

In one video, the East Rail line driver can be heard mimicking the standard announcement telling passengers to “please step back from the train doors” and then adding, “Du du du du du du duuu”, the warning sound that carriage doors are about to close.

Social media users widely circulated the video over the past 36 hours and said passengers on board could not help but laugh when the driver, also known as a train captain, copied the door-closing alarm.

“I was on a northbound train on the East Rail, the standard passenger announcement appeared to have broken down and the captain imitated the announcement. All the people on board laughed so hard at it,” account holder “mr.ronpang” wrote on Threads.

Another internet user, “zingzing0237”, said that he “strongly” urged the MTR Corporation to retain the driver’s way of making passenger announcements.

Another clip capturing people’s attention features a male MTR assistant who rapped passenger announcements at the Disneyland Resort station in Cantonese, English and Mandarin in a viral video uploaded three days ago.