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Happy Valley Racecourse fire Happy Valley Racecourse fire The Happy Valley Racecourse fire () was a fire that took place on 26 February 1918 in the Happy Valley Racecourse located at Happy Valley, Hong Kong. It was a catastrophe that caused the loss of 614 lives. The racecourse was first built in 1845 to provide horse racing for the British people in Hong Kong. The area was previously swampland, but the only flat ground suitable for horse racing on Hong Kong Island. To make way for the racecourse, Hong Kong Government prohibited rice growing by villages in the surrounding area. The first race ran
Happy Valley station Happy Valley station Happy Valley Station was a proposed railway station on the South Island Line (East) but will no longer be built. It would have served the Happy Valley area and the Happy Valley Racecourse. The station appeared as Happy Valley Station in previous proposals, and was listed in alignment C in the 2005 proposal, which, if chosen, would have been built together with an interchange with the Island Line at Wan Chai. However, the route via Wan Chai was dismissed in favour of a direct route from Ocean Park to Admiralty, though an option to en route Happy