Hello all, This trip, while quite successful from a professional Railway Civil Engineering standpoint and scenic exploration of far western China, was much...
Hello again, Urumqi area findings: A thorough exploration of the branch lines, coal mines, and other industries of the Urumqi area April 18-20 revealed only...
Hello yet again, Xining area and west (Qinghai province): The Xining steel mill is now all diesel, perhaps as recently as November 2004 (some locals claimed...
Hello for the forth and final time. Haishiwan-Yaojie-Nanlingcheng What I originally thought was a "new discovery" on April 28 is that the 100% SY steam line...
Just got the news Trains Magazine yesterday and just had a chance to thumb through. The mag opened to a beautiful shot of a doubleheader coming out of Tunnel...
Do you have any details of the diesel locos used at any of the industrial sites you visited? The Industrial Railway Society have published a book on the...
Sorry to say I didn't get any details on the diesels. In many cases, the replacement for steam seemed to be long lines of blue two axle trucks. Louis ... ...
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...
Xingyang working normally 5 days ago with loco 207 taking loads to all 3 brickworks sidings. Yinghao working normally with 2 locos; 03 on main line and 04 on...
Almost certainly still operating John, although understood to be scheduled for conversion to standard gauge ere too long. Pax (I think) and freight service to...
Robin and Michael Thanks for this. I'll try to get there to check it out and let your both know what I find. Xuchang was suggested as a possible source of...
... wrote:> ... Yinghao but it doesn't sound as if Xuchang would have much to offer. ... When i visited Yinghao in January 2005, they told me they were ...
They are orange diesels - I shall try and post my picture of them again! They should be attached to this MR ... From: "ameling algra" <ameling2003@...> ...
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Xuchang has blue/creme and yellow/red diesel locomotives. If you want to see them take a look on my trip report (including passenger time table etc.). The link...
Michael I don't think yahoo groups allow you to attach pictures. Maybe add it to the files on the website. Orange steam is something you associate with Java. I...
Hi guys, My memory of this line is that it ran the bigger C4 locos rather than the smaller 28t C2 class when it was steam operated. Cheers, Roger ... ...
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Yes, they had C4s instead of C2s. See my trip report. Here are the lines concerning the C4: "This narrow gauge line was one of the last in China to use C4...
Apologies to the Aussie we met today in Xingyang. The confirmation of the Xingyang hotel comes too late for him. Xingyang The hotel marked Hotel? near the...
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Xuchang was only one daily passenger in 2003. My guess was that this is an object to cancel. So the current situation is not too bad, in my opinion. Timetable...
John, If you're still with Mike when you get this reply, please give him my warm regards and ask him what I thought of the hotel at Yinghao. Regards, Bob ... ...
Bernd You, too, seem to be on a short fuse these days. All I did was misread you arrival and departure times as two trains not one. The station lists a second...
Hello all, On the Hainan Airlines web site I found that this airline will start flights (three days a week) from Brussels to Beijing; might be of use to some...
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Dear John, I was a bit annoyed that all the work I put into the trip reports seems to be for nothing. I travelled many years independently. Only friends of...
Bernd You know what it's like. You are in a dark, smokey wang ba somewhere in China with a computer keyboard with no letters left and you don't have access to...
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