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...
A further update. New build DF11Gs 0111-0114 are also reported as being destined for Xi'an, which may indicate that Sankeshu's 0105 and 0106 are there for ...
Folks, Thanks Roy. Intriguing! The only non-electrified lines out of Xi'an are to the north and they are minor - hardly likely where the DF11Gs will be used. I...
Hi Bruce and everyone, I wasn't sufficiently confident in my translation to include it in my previous posting, but it looked as if the DF11Gs might be...
Willing to take pictures on the lineside last Saturday on the main line Shanghai - Hangzhou, I was surprised to meet one of the teams erecting electrification...
Julian and others, Firstly, Julian, it's great to see a report of yours again and hope to see more on this rather subdued forum. Yes, electrification is moving...
Dear Bruce and all, I can confirm seeing on last Monday T137/T140 Xi'an - Shanghai with DF11G near Nanjing. I would not be surprised if the loco was running...
Julian and others, Julian, thanks for the observation. I noted on one of the websites this week that at least some of the new SS7Es coming off the Datong...
From a quick trawl through the NW enthusiasts board on hasea, DF11G 0104/5 now have the XiXi depot code. The only news of their workings is the line to Yan'an....
http://www.railwayfan.net/ccj/bbs1/cgi-bin/topic.cgi? forum=15&topic=4280&start=0&show=0 shows a number of photos of SY 1290 on the Qinhuangdao Local Railway, ...
Spent a few hours at the Ba River bridge (Bahe Qiao) just east of Xian at the weekend - it is visible from the road to the Terracotta warriors but fairly near...