The Sunshine Railway

The Sunshine Railway, also known as The Sunny Railway is a fictional Hong Kong-based subway system using automated people mover train sets. It operates the Clear Water Light Rail and is slowly being expanded. The company is owned by controversial Hong Kong user JustinTheHuman422. The line is based on Kowloon Canton Railway services if the company decided to open a new venture after it leased its suburban lines to MTR. However, due to copyright, the idea of branding TSR as KCR has been scrapped.

As of August 2021, services are operated with multiple car LRVs while there is room for 3 car LRVs (as expansion) on one line.

History
In August 2020, work began and a picture showed a fictional APM train car servicing an unknown station, which would eventually become the Clear Water Line. The Clear Water Line runs between Hung Miu Kuk and Yue Cheng, with future expansions planned.

Development continued and decals to represent MTR stations were added by October 2020, with a non-passenger test performed in December 2020.

On January 10, 2021, from roughly 8:00 pm to 10:30 pm Hong Kong time(UTC +8), a trial passenger run was performed as a service commenced, with server capacity set to 100. This caused a large group of players to join as the event had been highly publicized and caused overcrowding on services due to the limited capacity of the APMs. This also caused heavy lag.

On January 11, 2021, another run was held with some "changes" made, which were also unsafe. Stools were added to doorways to temporarily increase seating capacity, although overcrowded trains were still the norm.

On January 11, 2021, in a Facebook post, The Sunshine Railway's page announced it would be temporarily shutting down the Clear Water Line, rebuild it and likely fix the faults that occurred during its initial two days of operation following the criticism it received. This was due to safety issues and to likely redo the stations to have proper alternative access. However, the map was briefly reopened for public testing again on January 12, 2021, this time with escalators and stairwells added to reduce the need for elevators.

As of January 19 (January 20 in Hong Kong Time), a newer type of APM, the Mitsubishi Crystal Mover has been delivered and has been stored at Yue Cheng Station; meanwhile all existing trains have had their KCR logos removed as part of rebranding the APM system (to avoid further copyright claims). The same also applied to train station signage. Furthermore, at some stations, MTR announcements were added to remind people about staying orderly, keep clear of doors and to when a train is due. Server capacity was also reduced to 10 players to prevent overcrowding on trains and at stations.

On January 22, 2021, through a Facebook post, TSR introduced a Kawasaki light rail vehicle that was being tested on a future LRT line, although no details and/or fleet numbers have been released.

As of February 2021, TSR plans to use full-size trains and number the original Clear Water Light Rail Rail as Line LR1, hinting that future expansions are planned to add more lines to the system.

In March 2021, the company's Facebook page gave a preview for the North South Rail, which is expected to use the full size trains. This line seems to have more of a mainland China influence to prevent infringement of KCRC branding.

On July 6, 2021, TSR introduced a new logo to attempt to create a new brand identity for itself. This logo would be applied to the inside of trains although it is very similar to KCR's logo.

In August 2021, after removal of "all" references from MTR and KCRC, the Clear Water Bay line was reopened as a mainland China based system and renamed as "Clear Water Light Rail".

Safety Issues
On January 10, 2021, when the line initially opened to the public, the server capacity was set to 100. Not only was the system was unable to handle this amount of players but because trains were only single cars, this meant that it was impossible to board or even find a place to sit, with passengers being forced to stand. In addition, only elevators were found in stations, making it impossible for people to get in and out with queues of people and elevators constantly being glitched. Many of these issues were addressed during future updates.

Copyright Issues
As TSR had been using KCRC logos, the company was now in violation of Roblox copyright policy. The company removed all KCR branding from trains and stations, including on its Facebook profile picture and ran trains unbranded until it could come up with a new logo. This caused controversy within the group and in the generally Roblox Hong Kong community.

However, when TSR released a new logo on July 6, 2021, people found that it was using the logo of a Chinese metro system. Therefore, they released a new logo again to try and get the community to ride with them again.

Other Issues
On August 16, 2021, The “RMCHK” Facebook Group admin removed comments and posts from the owner of TSR, JustinTheHuman422 from the Roblox Multiplayer Calling Hong Kong group which led to NLB11A banning him. TSR was also sanctioned by the group following this (although current posts about the group are not affected).

Fleet
TSR's Clear Water Light Rail 2.0 initially ran multiple car Bombardier BI-100 APMs that were modified from free models and intended to replace them with Mitsubishi Crystal Mover APMs.