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Monthly Archives: January 2020
Hong Kong pop up books by Kit Lau
During my 2016 visit to Hong Kong I dropped into a few local bookshops on the hunt for something a big unusual, and I hit gold – the book ‘Hong Kong Pop-Up’ by illustrator, designer, and paper engineer Kit Lau. […]
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Tagged artwork, books, creativity, housing, Kit Lau, squatter control, taxi
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MTR ZER4 battery electric locomotives
I’ve written about the MTR’s Brush Traction battery electric locomotives used to help maintain their rail networks before, but there is a new class of locomotive joining the fleet – the CRRC built ZER4 units. CRRC Corporation photo The CRRC […]
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Tagged depots, electric vehicles, Hong Kong, locomotive, Mass Transit Railway, MTR, rail operations
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