- Support Checkerboard Hill on Patreon!
Subscribe via email
Join 382 other subscribersTags
advertising Australia aviation Beijing buses China China Railways construction depots driving East Rail freeways history Hong Kong Hong Kong International Airport KCR Kowloon Kowloon Canton Railway Lantau Island light rail line guide locomotive Macau mainland maintenance Mass Transit Railway MTR mystery New Territories on the road on the water Outlying Islands rail operations railway railway signalling scale models Shanghai Shatin to Central Link television commercials tourist trap trains trams tunnels underground Victoria Harbour
Archives
Recent Posts
- Hong Kong’s big orange ashtrays
- History of the Lo Wo railway bridge
- Modernising the MTR M-Train fleet
- More on my Hong Kong model railway
- United Group Rail in Hong Kong
- My miniature slice of Hong Kong
- Testing the MTR Urban Lines Vision Train in Mainland China
- Inspecting the Hong Kong–Zhuhai–Macau Bridge
- Trailer cars on the MTR Light Rail
- The return of cross-boundary freight trains to Hong Kong
Monthly Archives: October 2020
Hong Kong bus models for every budget
What does a young kid on holiday in Hong Kong and loaded up with red envelopes do? In the case of my son – spend the cash on pull-back action models of Hong Kong public transport! Cheap and cheerful The […]
Posted in Transport
Tagged 80M Bus Model Shop, buses, hobbies, Hong Kong, kids, model buses, model trains, scale models, taxi
3 Comments
Books for learning Hong Kong Cantonese
My son has always been interested in learning Cantonese, so our last trip to Hong Kong we did the rounds of bookshops, trying to find a book on the subject. We ended up buying a copy of “Illustrated Hong Kong […]