Tai Po is famous for its meat and produce market on Fu Shin Street, which has been drawing housewives since 1892. To serve people coming and going, the Tai Po Market Station was built in 1913, in a traditional Chinese style with a pitched roof complete with ceramic figurines.

Today the diminutive former station, once part of the Kowloon-Canton Railway (KCR) with through service to China, is the Hong Kong Railway Museum. It contains the station’s original waiting room and ticket office, along with displays of the history of railway service in Hong Kong, future MTR extensions, model trains (like Japan’s Shinkansen bullet train), and historic photographs of old stations, like Tsim Sha Tsui Station, erected in 1916 as the last stop for passengers arriving from London and sadly demolished in 1978. Outside the station are a narrow-gauge steam locomotive, a diesel electric engine, and vintage coaches from the early 1900s.