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checkerboard hill an aussie s view of hong kong checkerboard hill an aussie s view of hong kong skip to content home tourism transport everyday life what the hill links about me search for older posts another scale model of kai tak airport posted on may 13 2026 by marcus wong 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 the runway and it even has a full suite of apron building taxiway and runway lighting the airport model is in 1 400 scale and is based on kai tak as it appeared in the late nineties you can find more photos of the diorama over at facebook posted in transport tagged hobbies hong kong kai tak airport planes scale models leave a comment china railways 25c class carriages from south korea posted on april 8 2026 by marcus wong 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 hong kong for a short period in the 2000s photo by 慕尼黑啤酒 via wikimedia commons cc by sa 3 0 they looked unlike any other railway carriage in china with a curved carbody made of fluted stainless steel photo by 颐园新居 via wikimedia commons cc by sa 3 0 there isn t much written about them in english but luckily chinese language wikipedia covers the design of the carriages the 25c type passenger car is a high speed passenger car designed by the ministry of railways in cooperation with south korea for the guangzhou shenzhen railway the reason for the cooperation with south korea was to introduce stainless steel carriage body manufacturing technology to china in 1994 changchun railway vehicles and hanjin heavy industries of south korea signed a contract for a total of 30 passengers carriages manufactured between 1994 and 1995 they included 8 first class soft seat cars 18 second class soft seat cars including two second class soft seat cars with staff broadcasting compartment two dining cars and two power generation cars the maximum designed operating speed was 200 km h being the only high speed passenger carriages in china at that time it was also the first time that china used a curved side carbody structure on railway passenger cars hanjin heavy industry was responsible for the design of the stainless steel car body and the assembly of 27 cars while changchun railway vehicles is responsible for the assembly of two second class soft seat cars and one second class soft seat broadcasting car and providing high speed 200km h bogies the first class soft seat carriage of the 25c type passenger car rz1 25c is a compartment car with eight compartments each with six seats and a capacity of 48 people the second class soft seat carriage rz2 25c adopts a 2 2 seating layout in each row without compartments and has a capacity of 72 people the second class soft seat carriage with a broadcasting booth has a capacity of 64 people two types of bogies were manufactured the cw 1a with steel springs and hydraulic shock absorbers beneath the power generation car and the cw 2a type with air springs and variable throttle valves beneath the other carriages both were derived from the british rail bt 10 design used on mk3 coaching stock the type 25c passenger car was the most advanced railway passenger car in china at the time all 25c type passenger cars use tinted glass and automatic doors that can be centrally controlled or individually controlled the door at the platform end is an automatic sensor control door and an airtight windshield is used each carriage was also equipped with an automatic electric tea stove and retention toilet the first of its kind on a chinese railway passenger car as well as information display devices the air conditioning power generation car is equipped with a whole vehicle fault self detection and monitoring system which can centrally monitor the opening and closing status of the doors of the whole train the axle temperature and has functions such as automatic alarm and fault handling procedures it was suitable for environments ranging from 20 c to 40 c their history in service after a series of tests the 25c type passenger car was assigned to guangzhou railway group now china railway guangzhou bureau group co ltd in 1998 and began to operate on the guangzhou shenzhen line the 30 carriages were combined into two sets of carriages to serve as the four pairs of guangzhou shenzhen intercity semi high speed trains every day using df11 type diesel locomotives for traction by october 21 2000 after china railway implemented the fourth major speed increase the 25c type passenger car was used to run through trains between hong kong and foshan and zhaoqing to replace the old 25b type soft seat cars from 2004 onwards one set was still used for the zhaoqing jiujiang through train while the other set was used for the danxia train running between shaoguan guangzhou and shenzhen with train numbers t351 352 353 354 and t761 762 763 764 respectively and their eventual retirement with the sixth china railway speed up campaign of in 2007 the 25c type passenger cars were retired from service and the carriages stored at the guangzhou rolling stock depot in december 2020 carriage rc25c 110673 was sent to the guangzhou railway museum formerly guangzhou south station and then moved to the zhaoqing training center of the guangzhou workers vocational skills training base in early 2022 additional carriages never having been ordered due to their high cost and issues with the bogie design the production of 25c carriages was not continued due to their high cost 10 million rmb per carriage compared to 6 million rmb for a 25t carriage produced by bombardier sifang power and only about 4 million rmb for a 25t carriage produced by cnr sifang the two cw series bogies designed by changchun railway vehicles co ltd were found to be inadequate in terms of high speed performance and structural strength in actual use the cw 2a bogie used in the 25c carriage once broke during use some 25k carriages that also used the cw series bogies also experienced problems such as broken traction rods and melting of rubber at the elastic positioning nodes of the axle boxes therefore the maximum operating speed was later limited to 160km h according to the provisions of the ministry of railways document no 431 of 2008 notice on clarifying the marking speed of various types of passenger cars in order to ensure the safe operation of passenger cars starting from august 31 2008 the speed marking of all 25c type vehicles was dropped again to 140km h further reading more information about the 25c type carriages wikipedia china railway 25c passenger car trainnets com rz1 25c type first class car trainnets com rz2 25c type second class car trainnets com ca 25c type dining car trainnets com kd 25c type air conditioning generator car chinese railway passenger car encyclopedia 25c series nanyue express 25c passenger carriage diagrams and some photos of the 25c carriages in service in hong kong df11 hauling 25c carriages on the east rail line march 2006 df11 leading 25c carriages through university station in 2004 df11 leading 25c carriages through sheung shui in 2006 posted in housekeeping tagged carriage china railways hong kong mtr intercity through train railway south korea trains leave a comment new australian locomotives on test in china posted on march 11 2026 by marcus wong 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 the above video is by 出站信号好 on douyin and features southern shorthaul railroad livered ac50 diesel locomotive cac202 on a push pull train with a shudao group df8b diesel locomotive the ac50 diesel locomotives are being built by crrc ziyang for southern shorthaul railroad in australia tianfu media photo having a cab at each end 5000hp traction power and a maximum speed of 100 km h but the new ac50 locomotives are not the first that crrc ziyang has built for australia 15 years ago they built the sda1 diesel locomotives for sct logistics here we see one on test in china with a hxd1c electric locomotive video by 出站信号好 on douyin this video being rather old that specific locomotive csr016 entered service back in 2022 more videos pair of ac50 locomotives for ssr outside the crrc factory ssr locomotive cac202 located onto a truck for delivery ssr locomotive cac202 running with df8b and fxn3c locomotives posted in transport tagged australia china crrc diesel locomotives mainland testing leave a comment china motor bus double decker returns to hong kong posted on february 11 2026 by marcus wong 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 the bus was originally delivered to china motor bus in july 1990 passing to new world first bus in 1998 until eventually withdrawn in 2004 it was then sold to fourways coaches in the united kingdom who operated it for a number of years it was then acquired by bus collector dave rogers who already owns a number of other hong kong buses but who was working on the behalf of hong kong based preservation group island vintage bus the group is now working to restore the bus to original condition further reading air conditioned cmb condor returns to hong kong buses magazine island vintage bus at facebook island vintage bus on youtube posted in transport tagged buses overseas china motor bus dave rogers island vintage bus new world first bus preservation preserved buses united kingdom leave a comment retro livery for the cathay pacific 80th anniversary posted on january 14 2026 by marcus wong 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 lettuce leaf sandwich livery which will be applied to three different types of aircraft in the cathay pacific fleet airbus a350 941xwb b lrj boeing 777 367 b hnj boeing 747 8f b lje all three types visit melbourne so i m hoping i get the chance to photograph them for myself soon footnote the cantonese nickname for the livery in cantonese the 1980s cathay pacific livery is nicknamed 大柴 big chai the hong kong resource centre for heritage explaining why in the hong kong police force ranks are traditionally distinguished by the shoulder insignia worn by officers the two horizontal stripes on the shoulder insignia of officers at the sergeant rank commonly known as sergeant are affectionately called big chai in the community cathay pacific an airline is also known as big chai because its green and white stripes on its front logo resemble the shoulder insignia of a police sergeant and an update on 31 january 2026 the 80th anniversary liveried airbus a350 b lrj finally visited melbourne through unfortunately the weather was not the best posted in transport 1 comment older posts support checkerboard hill on patreon subscribe via email i publish a fresh blog post every month on the second wednesday enter your email address to receive each new post via email email address subscribe join 431 other subscribers tags 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 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