A trip up memory lane for a special day on the Peak Tram

Braving thunderstorms and a three-hour queue with their eight-month-old baby, a couple who found love on The Peak returned yesterday for a trip up memory lane.

Alice Ng, 32, and her husband, Teddy, 38, were among 10,000 people who arrived at the Garden Road terminus to celebrate the Peak Tram's 120th anniversary, riding with commemorative 30 HK cent tickets and photographing themselves with staff in period costumes.

'I decided it was worth the wait because, actually, my husband did something there, and I wanted to go back for a nostalgic trip,' Mrs Ng said.

What her husband did was ask her out for their first date on the platform of the tram's Peak terminus on the night of December 30, 1996, sparking a trip to a Mong Kok restaurant, then marriage, and last October, a son, Matthew.

Mrs Ng wanted Matthew to visit the place that has played a key role in their lives. 'He has never been there so I wanted him to see,' she said.

In the summer of 1996, Mr and Mrs Ng, then in their 20s, were working together as ground crew at Kai Tak airport. They started gathering regularly with a group of mutual friends. That December evening several months later came after one such outing.

Mrs Ng said the evening was not especially romantic. 'I was looking into the distance when he asked me. Only after a while did I realise what he was asking,' she said. Asked what words Mr Ng used, Mrs Ng became suddenly demure: 'There are some things we have to keep to ourselves.'