An Aussie's view of Hong Kong
I ve written about scale models of Kai Tak Airport before, and today I present to you a new one created by Brian Keene at AVPro Designs. It features the main terminal building, maintenance hangars, and the landward end of [ ] Continue reading The post Another scale model of Kai Tak Airport appeared first on Checkerboard Hill .
I ve written a few times before about different types of China Railways carriage stock, but one I d never heard of before is the small fleet of 25C class carriages built by Hanjin Heavy Industries of South Korea, and which operated [ ] Continue reading The post China Railways 25C class carriages from South Korea appeared first on Checkerboard Hill .
I ve written before about newly built diesel locomotive for the Kowloon-Canton Railway undertaking test runs in Australia, but today things are the other way around new locomotives for Australia undertaking test runs in China. Video by 出站信号好 on Douyin [ ] Continue reading The post New Australian locomotives on test in China appeared first on Checkerboard Hill .
I missed this one at the time, but back in 2020 a former China Motor Bus double decker was returned to Hong Kong for preservation air-conditioned Duple Metsec-bodied Dennis Condor bus DA1. Photo by km30192002, via Wikimedia Commons (CC-BY-2.0) [ ] Continue reading The post China Motor Bus double decker returns to Hong Kong appeared first on Checkerboard Hill .
In December 2025 it was revealed that Cathay Pacific has something exciting coming up to mark their 80th anniversary a trio of retro liveried jets. Mees Jansen / @meesj015 Instagram Mees Jansen has produced an artists impression of the [ ] Continue reading The post Retro livery for the Cathay Pacific 80th anniversary appeared first on Checkerboard Hill .
I ve written about ghost roads in Hong Kong before, but the other week I discovered one I ve travelled past dozens of times but never noticed on Tai Po Road in the Kowloon Hills. Google Street View The bypassed section [ ] Continue reading The post Ghost road in the Kowloon Hills appeared first on Checkerboard Hill .
With space at a premium in Hong Kong large model railway displays are uncommon, so this HO scale model of the MTR Disneyland Resort Line is a special find. Tiny 微影 photo It was built by local modeller Egret Studio [ ] Continue reading The post MTR Disneyland Resort Line model in HO scale appeared first on Checkerboard Hill .
Tiny 微影 is a manufacturer of a massive range of Hong Kong road and rail vehicle models, predominately in 1/120 scale, so for the opening of their new store in Tsuen Wan they unveiled this beautify piece of Hong Kong [ ] Continue reading The post Miniature slice of Hong Kong by Tiny 微影 appeared first on Checkerboard Hill .
While exploring Hong Kong from the front row of a double decker bus I noticed a nifty feature along their road network estimated travel times being displayed in real time on road signs at major junctions. Called the Journey [ ] Continue reading The post Travel time signage on the roads of Hong Kong appeared first on Checkerboard Hill .
I m just a little bit of a sucker for car ferries, so this footage from the British Pathé newsreel archives caught my eye. It was filmed in 1963 and from the 3:24 mark shows the journey ferries once made transporting [ ] Continue reading The post Catching the car ferry from Central to Jordan in the 1960s appeared first on Checkerboard Hill .