- Support Checkerboard Hill on Patreon!
Subscribe via email
Join 395 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
- A Hong Kong taxi in Australia
- Going for a long walk at Mei Foo station
- Then, now and in between at Tsim Sha Tsui Exit A1
- KCR ‘Yellow Head’ train towing a KTT carriage
- Behind the scenes refurbishing the KCR Metro Cammell EMUs
- Garden Hill and the approach to Kai Tak Airport
- Living in a retired Hong Kong double-decker bus
- The MTR light rail ‘money train’
- KCR 60 arrives at the Hong Kong Railway Museum
- MTR’s rolling billboard – the ‘Spectacular Mobile Showcase’
Tag Archives: Tsim Sha Tsui
Then, now and in between at Tsim Sha Tsui Exit A1
This is the story of a Hong Kong MTR exit – Exit A1 at Tsim Sha Tsui station. December 1979: grand opening of the new station. Information Services Department Reference No.: TA(2)1033 July 2009: much the same. Photo by GABell, […]
Posted in Transport
Tagged accessibility, disability access, Hong Kong, Mass Transit Railway, MTR, then and now, Tsim Sha Tsui
Leave a comment
Changing trains at East Tsim Sha Tsui
There are many interchange stations on Hong Kong’s MTR, but the connection between Tsim Sha Tsui station on the Tsuen Wan line and East Tsim Sha Tsui station on the West Rail line has to take the cake as the […]
Posted in Transport
Tagged Hong Kong, interchange stations, Mass Transit Railway, MTR, trains, Tsim Sha Tsui, Tsuen Wan Line, West Rail
2 Comments
Facebook, the KCR clock tower, and a panda
The other week I was having a Facebook conversation with a friend when they posted something very familiar looking – the former Kowloon-Canton Railway clock tower!
Posted in Everyday Life
Tagged Facebook, Hong Kong, Kowloon Canton Railway, Tsim Sha Tsui
Leave a comment