Thanks Darryl I've just spoken to somebody over there to help me make my decision. There is evidently a group from China Rail going next week and arrangements...
The report from my latest trip to Yamansu, Sandaoling, Yaojie, Liujiaxia and Baiyin is available on the railography website. Hopefully it will help clear up...
Duncan Thank you for that interesting reading. I know steam at Tianzhou and the pass only from pictures. Must be great even "only" with the nice SS1 electrics....
Hi there, There was supposed to be an auction on Tuesday last with 20 QJ's up for auction at Daban loco. Has anyone heard anything about it please? Peter...
Duncan thanks for that very detailed report which filled in plenty of gaps in our earlier version. I'd love to revisit Sandaoling and catch the parts that we...
This is where we are: Chinese movies (seen on buses in China) may have been filmed by Mainland Chinese, Hong Kong, Taiwan (or even Singaporean?) studios. If...
I'm not surprised that Sandaoling has taken a back seat during the final months of main line steam on the JiTong line. Now that JiTong is all but finished,...
JUst a word or two of warning for anyone applying for their China Visa at the Visa office in Great Portland Street in London at the moment. Firstly, unless you...
Quite a swag of C56's were sent from Japan to China during the late war, they were converted to metre gauge to work some of the metre gauge lines in the west...
I don't have a copy of the film (seen on a bus) but loco appeared to be 'in steam' and was vaguely adapted to look like an American loco. That included (I...
My friends and I are planning our 3rd on our own trip to China in April and plan on trying Southern China. I think the narrow gauge at Shibanxi would be great...
I can add my thanks for the report Duncan. Sandaolong is one of the systems that is on my list to visit, should I get the opportunity to go again. I am also...
Dear group members, these days we are spending in Huanan. We found a still busy system with 3 - 4 trains in every direction during daylight in geart...
The railcar has been a known problem for several years now. See Rob and others' earlier reports. Everyone avoids it and uses sensibly priced taxis from Huanan....
If trip reports are an indication - as they should - I was the last visitor there before Till Mosler, and i can only confirm John's comment. The railcar was...
Just an anecdote from our visits - on our first time in Huanan, we were "double sold" the railcar. We turned up thinking we were getting it cheap for the day...
Colin, See below. Duncan ... None of the locos at Sandaoling have deflectors. ... I have no idea what the objection to steam locos running a short distance...
In Berlin they are very accurate (opening hours) and do not complain about passport photo size or dark glasses (yet). Bernd Bernd Seiler FarRail Tours ...
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The only thing I know is that there have been 27 interested people, representing different companies. Starting price was 350.000 RMB (Chinese Yuan). No...
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Dear all, yesterday after our experience and some talks to friendly and unfriendly locals and stuff I wrote down my impressions and opinion about all. I read...
Like most of the Forest Railway railbus operations, I believe that the Huanan railbus is a separate, private concession. I heard while I was there, however,...
I chartered the railcar about three years ago and the price was 2,000 Yuan after a long bargain. I never chartered the railcar again as they always ask for...
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Hi, is anybody in Daban right now and can give us some details about the last days of steam on the Jitong line? I guess that will be interesting for all of us...
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