Hi Florian, On Beijing Bureau there are also SS1s based at Shijiazhuang, Taiyuan and Handan. The Shijiazhuang-Taiyuan line is a good one for SS1s. Some may...
Dear Florian, back in Nov. 2002 I saw several SS1 in Chenzhou (where the narrow gauge railway started) and in Guangzhou. The number thing wondered me also...
Dear Peter, Bruce and others, thanks for your replies! I think, I now understand the SS1 numbering system. (At Ganshui for example, I noted both 14,82 1484 and...
Hi folks, Over the past two years or so around 6 new DF21 6-axle diesel-electric locos have been put into service on the lines south of Kunming and I...
Only recently made my first visits to China and on the last occasion travelled on the China Orient Express Jingpeng trip in January. Whilst I can just about...
Dear Andy, as to my knowlwdge, the DF4s are divided into the following subclasses and number series: DF4 0001-0770, 2001-2031, 3002-3042 (green, "round") ...
Hello, my latest report on http://qj-country.de is online now and includes a lot of modern traction sightings as well. Comments are welcome! Best regards, ...
With all due modesty, my site at http://www.railwaysofchina.com/diesel_locos.htm has details of the various classes, although not 100% accurate or up to date. ...
Robin/Florian, Many thanks for the info. Your input was most helpful to making sense of my travels.Though I visited China primarily to witness working steam...
Hello everyone, I've just returned from my latest expedition, part of which was to track down some of the CNR DF4E to DF4B rebuilds (7701 to 7732). I managed...
Roy and others, Thanks for the intial reports Roy. On the ex-DF4Es the builders plates are likely to be the original Sifang plates fitted to the DF4Es, but it...
Photo at http://www.railwayfan.net/ccj/bbs1/cgi-bin/topic.cgi? forum=15&topic=3328&start=10&show=0 of the above depot code on an SS1. One could guess this to...
Antwerp, Belgium, 30/04/2005, Hello, It's my first post here since I'm relatively new to Chinese railways (I only visited China two times, from which only one...
Robin, No specific info on this, but I've seen pictures of something similar in the Beijing bureau before. The new SS4Gs delivered to Hudong a few months ago...
http://www.railwayfan.net/ccj/bbs1/cgi-bin/topic.cgi? forum=15&topic=3342&show=0 shows a XiJuXinDuan code on a new DF7G. This appears to be Xian bureau Xinfeng...
Answering my own question, the sub-bureau level has been abolished and three new bureaux created - Taiyuan, Xi'an and Wuhan. See (Chinese) article at...
Hello Joeri, I am UK based and have had the same problem with this site for the past four or five weeks. My son, who is something of an expert in these...
Antwerp, Belgium, 04/05/2005, Hello, Thanks a lot for your answer...! And indeed, let's hope this failure is not permanent and not a deliberate block to...
Hi, I am in Hong Kong and there is no problem for me to access the site (http://www.railwayfan.net/ccj/bbs1/cgi-bin/forums.cgi?forum=8) I hope the problem with...
Hope I got the spelling right for this narrow gauge line between Zhenzhou and Pingdingshan in Henan province. Does anyone have details of the train service...
For the first time in a long time, I was able to access this site from the UK this morning, so the connection seems to have been restored. Interestingly my...
Tehran Urban & Suburban Railway Co has started taking delivery of a further batch of 12 Class SS5 electric locomotives from China's Zhuzhou Electric Loco Works...
Hello everyone, Further to the previous postings on the DF4E to DF4B rebuilds 7701 to 7732 and the duplication of numbers with the recently built Dalian batch,...
Folks, I haven't picked up anything else specifically on this. However, somewhere recently I have seen reference to an additional railway bureau so this may be...
Florian, Alan, Roy and others, Two things: 1. Florian was asking about the two 02xx DF4Ds at based at Fengtai. From what I can pick up these are the two...
Robin, Fascinating. In view of the excellent external and internal condition of the locos (DF11G 0105 and 0106),I can only guess that they have gone to Xi'an...
Hello, some info I got from Duncan Peattie: 1) The rail-ferry connection to Haikou opened for pax transport recently (in April 2005?) (e.g. with a direct train...
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