Chinas Industrial Railways

Kailuan Coal Mining Administration

SY class at Kailuan

SY class 2-8-2 No 0964, built 1975,at (Kailuan) Tangshan coal mine depot undergoing running repairs in consultation with western observer (from Wales!). The mines here have an extensive rail system and this is the area (Hebei) which suffered a large earth quake in 1976.

Tangshan Locomotive and Rolling Stock Works

Tangshan Works shunter SY 1394

This SY class 2-8-2 number 1394 was built at Tangshan and is now one of 3  shunters based at the works which builds mainly carriages but they did offer to built steam loco's for us as long as there were at least 5 ordered!

Yexi Stone Railway

Yexi 762cm train

762mm (2 foot 6 inch) at the Yexi stone railway near Beijing.

This busy little 0-8-0 sped up and down, on its 1km of track, between the quarry and standard gauge railway all day pushing/pulling its tipper trucks. Note the china tea cup in the cab window! Its sister engine was under repair in the workshop adjacent, each weighs in at 28 tonne and the soviet PT-4 was the prototype on which these Chinese versions are based and are classed as C2.

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