Checkerboard Hill

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.

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 on the Through Train to…

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 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 in miniature.

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.

I’m just a little bit of a sucker for car ferries, so this footage from the British Pathé newsreel archives caught my eye.