- Support Checkerboard Hill on Patreon!
Subscribe via email
Tags
- advertising
- Australia
- aviation
- buses
- China
- China Railways
- construction
- depots
- Disneyland
- driving
- East Rail
- history
- Hong Kong
- Hong Kong International Airport
- Hong Kong Tramways
- KCR
- Kowloon
- Kowloon Canton Railway
- Lantau Island
- light rail
- line guide
- locomotive
- Macau
- mainland
- maintenance
- Mass Transit Railway
- MTR
- mystery
- New Territories
- Octopus card
- on the road
- on the water
- Outlying Islands
- rail operations
- railway
- railway archaeology
- railway signalling
- scale models
- television commercials
- tourist trap
- trains
- trams
- tunnels
- Victoria Harbour
- West Rail
Photos from Flickr
Archives
Recent Posts
- Powering the MTR Light Rail network
- Driverless baggage tractors at Hong Kong International Airport
- The evolution of MTR network maps over time
- Shrinking East Rail line trains from 12 to 9 cars
- Extending the MTR using a tunnel *dismantling* machine
- Souvenir sales on the Hong Kong MTR
- Hong Kong’s archaic English and ‘Litter cum Recyclable Collection Bins’
- Television commercials for the MTR Airport Express
- Hong Kong’s most useless road – Airport Tunnel on Chek Lap Kok
- ‘Ocean Express’ funicular railway at Ocean Park
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
Leave a comment
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 […]