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Steam to the Gobi Desert - English • Great Railways
China’s railways were the world's last great bastion of steam. New routes in a rapidly expanding network had priority for modern traction, leaving existing lines to continue with steam traction for decades. This programme takes us on a 1991 rail journey from the sole surviving standard gauge steam locomotive factory, past the Great Wall of China and through the wilds of inner Mongolia to the edge of the Gobi desert. The famous QJ 2-10-2 is filmed on express passenger work in stunning mountain scenery with a dramatic cab ride, as well as double-heading heavy freights on the horseshoe curves beyond Zhongwei en route to China’s Far West.
Other classic types featured are YJ 2-6-2 at Baotou steel works, plus JF 2-8-2 and SY 2-8-2 on branch line and coal mine service. A rare archive clip shows an ex-USSR FD Class 2-10-2 filmed inside the great Yangtze bridge. In all, a fascinating portrait of a vanished era.
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China Steam 2012 - Part 4 of 4 - Beitai iron mongery
Steam locomotives in Beitai steel factory (North-Eastern China). The high furnaces depicted in this video were closed in December 2012 and steam locomotives are no longer present on the site.
Jixi journey
My journey to Jixi county, Anhui, China as an assistant teacher of English.
Chinese steam 2008 Jixi mixture
A noisy SY at Xinghua.
At Donghai an SY pokes its nose out of the coal loading tower.
At Xuemeichang on the Didao system an SY passes with a train of empties.
At Lijing mine.
In the gathering gloom near Jixi Xi an SY running light shunts across a level crossing.
Shunting in misty early morning light at Didao.
A small works diesel railcar propels a couple of flat wagons with the aid of a long pole.
An SY passes the church at Beichang washery on the Chengzihe system.
Another SY attacks the steeply graded curved line up to Beichang washery.
Shunting at the smartly painted Pinggang mine
Filmed January 2008
By Rail in China 1986 - A Search for Steam!
A travelog from 1986 from a wander through China in search of Steam Locomotives.
《錦繡中國》黑龍江·鸡西(1) 0110 | Fantastic China, Jixi, Heilongjiang Province Ep. 29 HD
雞西位於黑龍江省東南部，面積2.25萬平方公里，人口184萬，有641公里中俄邊境線和兩個國家一類陸路口岸，是一座具有百年煤炭開採歷史的綜合性工業城市，也是中國石墨產業之都。
雞西是不一樣的“自然江湖”。有總面積為4380平方公里的亞洲最大淡水界湖興凱湖，一首烏蘇里江船歌唱響國內外的中俄界江烏蘇里江，享有“同緯度地區最完美、最具複合性、保存最完好”的美譽珍寶島濕地，馳名中外的珍寶島等知名生態景觀；雞西是不一樣的“人文江湖“。這裡是滿族祖先肅慎人發祥地，第二次世界大戰終結地，共和國空軍的成長地，北大荒精神發源地，珍寶島精神的誕生地，百年煤炭開採歷史集結地。
近年來，雞西市大力實施“旅貿牽動”戰略，打造“生態遊、紅色游、邊境遊”三大系列特色產品，歡迎世界各地遊客行走“謎一樣的烏蘇里江，海一樣的興凱湖，美麗雞西不一樣的江湖”。
Jixi, located in the southeastern part of Heilongjiang Province, with an area of 22,500 square kilometers and a population of 1,840,000. It covers 641-kilometer-long Sino-Russian border line and has one first-class land port between two countries. It is also a comprehensive industrial city with a 100-year history of coal mining and a city of graphite industry in China.
Jixi is a different “natural river”. There is the largest fresh water lake, Lake Xingkai, with a total area of 4,380 square kilometers, and the most perfect, complex, and well-preserved Treasure Island (Zhenbao Island). Jixi is a different “cultural river”. It is the birthplace of ancestors of Manchu, the end of World War II, the place where the Republic of the Great Northern Wilderness air force grow, the birthplace of the wilderness spirit, the birthplace of the spirit of Treasure Island, and the place where gathers the history of coal mining for a hundred years.
In recent years, Jixi City vigorously implements the “travel and business” strategy, build “ecotourism, red tourism, and border tourism” three special tourism products. We welcome the tourists all around the world to enjoy and experience “the mistery Usurri River, Lake Xingkai, and a different beautiful Jixi”.
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《錦繡中國》集萃中國各地優質旅遊宣傳品及城市形象片進行雙語剪輯製作，欄目同時面向國內及境外觀眾，向全國觀眾推薦中國的旅遊城市及壯美山河風光，為中國的旅遊產業做出貢獻。分發平台包括國內的今日頭條、騰訊視頻、愛奇藝、優酷等網站，以及境外的Facebook和YouTube，歡迎供稿：travel@fjlytv.com。
Fantastic China is a series of select bilingual travel publicity films about different cities and provinces in China. It aims to show the splendid and amazing sceneries of China to audience around the world and makes a good contribution to Chinese tourist industry. It will upload videos on several domestic platforms including Headline Today(Jinritoutiao), Tencent Video, iqiyi, and Youku and overseas websites Facebook and YouTube. Contributions are most welcome: travel@fjlytv.com.
Steam in China 2003 Ji Tong Railway - Jing Peng Pass on the footplate
This is a re-edited version of a video previously up-loaded to YouTube.
A footplate ride was a highlight of a visit to the Pass. For a small sum of money, loco crews were usually happy to take enthusiasts the full length of the pass with them. This video covers a selection of shots taken on a ride on the front loco of a pair of QJs from Jing Peng in the west over the summit to Galadesitai in the east. Although most of the QJ class had mechanical stokers fitted, the locos were usually fired by hand because the crew were given a bonus for fuel efficiency and this was best achieved by hand firing.
China Steam: SY0118 Heihua Fulaerji
SY0118 steam locomotives is coming into HeiHua marshalling station at HeiHua Company, FuLaErJi district, QiQiHaEr, Heilongjiang Provence, China.
上游0118正在进入黑化编组场: 2012年1月末，拍摄于黑龙江省齐齐哈尔市富拉尔基区中国化工黑化集团编组场。
Filmed at the end of January 2012
LCGB China Nancha Part 1
In steam days, Nancha was a famous destination for Nancha Bank on the branch line north towards the Russian border. The locos were QJ and often double headed and banked trains. One of the challenges with video is when trains slow to a crawl so much of my filming was done while the trains were still travelling at speed. A bit of hard editing has been necessary with some of the slow stuff. This was filmed on video 8 and the image quality and the drop outs are part of the footage. Despite that, I hope you will find this enjoyable.
China 1980s: Trains archive footage
Archival footage shot by an amateur filmmaker while visiting China in 1987
It contains stock footage of trains shot during two trips in the southeastern part of the Country: a journey in the municipality of Chongqing with stops in the stations (Jiangjin, Baiska, Dazu) and passengers walking along the platforms, views from the train window during a journey from Guangzhou to Hong Kong, and more.
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Chinese steam - Shibanxi,中国四川省 芭石鉄路 黃村井 礦坑
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China steam finale - Jixi September 2011
This video shows steam locomotives at work at Dongchang mine, Beichang washery and the Xinghua tip at Jixi, Heilongjiang Provence, China. The action takes place at the washery and the tip, with coverage of the coal pickers too. There is a glimpse of an electric locomotive of the type that is planned to replace the steam engines some time.
黒龍江省鶏西市にある鶏西砿業集団鉄路運輸部の上游型（SY）。
爆煙です。
If you are used to steam on several lines at Jixi; no electrification poles spoiling the view; winter steam effects; and donkey carts, you may find this video disappointing!
We were at Jixi from 8-10 September for two and a half days. At Chengzihe we recorded 7 SYs at work: 0951, 1058, 1351, 1369, 1437, 1544 and 1545. The Beichang washery and the two lines leading to it were free of electrification poles, although a stack of poles lay near the level crossing with the road that leads down to the church.
No overhead wires were seen in place anywhere, but a number of poles had the fittings attached to support wires.
The only diesel noted at Chengzihe was DF10D 0157, one of the two larger diesels which have worked at Hengshan for some years.
The gathering of locomotives at Dongchang for the shift change remains. A water column remains at Nanchang, but the other servicing tracks there are now occupied by a repair building, seen in the video. Instead of coaling at Nanchang, locomotives travel to Beichang, often coupled in pairs.
The short spoil line near Xinghua is also free of poles. The points controller there told our guide he expected diesels to take over from steam in about six months.
Apologies for some wind noise on the tip - my external microphone broke on this trip and it is windy up there even in summer.
China Winter 2004 9
Jingpengpaß 9.02.2004
1. Begegnung Bf. Galatesitai
2. Anfahrt Galatesitai
3. Vor dem Scheiteltunnel
4. Durchfahrt Xiakengzi
5. Vor Shangdian
6. 1. Kehre ost bei sanDi
7. vor dem Scheiteltunnel
8. im Ziegeleital bei ErDi
9. 90°-Viadukt talwärts
10. Von Xiakengzi bis Hadashan
11. große Brücke bei XiaMinhadang
12. 90°-Viadukt von außen
13. vor Shangdian
14. vor Bf. Hadashan
15.Durchfahrt Shangdian
The Dongchang - Beichang shuttle... (HD)
The crew of SY 1340 didn't succeed in getting the Dongchang - Beichang coal shuttle (This train runs about every hour from the mine at Dongchang to the washery at Beichang...) up the grade, and they stalled on the level crossing... (They didn't make good speed at the beginning of the climb, and wheelslip quickly brought the speed down to zero...) They decided to let the train roll back to Dongchang and then went for a second - and finally more powerful - attempt, which was more succesful! (Bt the way, look at the little blue bus taking a dangerous risk! The same morning, a taxi was caught by a steam locomotive near here... Some people never learn...) Beichang, Chengzihe, Jixi, Heilongjiang, China (November 23, 2009)
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The high speed train is about 350km per hour from Guangzhou to Wuhan in china.
STEAMS FAREWELL SONG IN CHINA PART THREE, RESHUI
Although china rail by the start of 2003 had almost relegated the iron horse to the history books, there still remained many industrial operations that used steam locomotives, from the height of steam action in the late 1980's, when China rail boosted over 8,000 steam locomotives on its books, the decline of steam has been relentless.
As we started the new millennium, official figures quoted 1,014 steam locomotives still active on China rail. Most of the fleet of QJ 2-10-2's are only 20-30 years old and still in very good working order, however due to the electrification and upgrading of many China rail lines many old diesels have been released, and shortly after this film was taken in February and March 2004, in late March diesel trials were carried out over the Jingpeng pass, reports in winter 2004-2005 suggest only 30% of trains were steam hauled, with at least one diesel piloting the steam locomotives, and many in pairs, and 10 more were expected in February 2005.
Shortly after this diesel power took over on the Jingpeng pass.
This programme includes levels 1,2 and 3 above Reshui.
Running time: 60 Minutes
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Chinese train transporting coal
Coal is the main energy used in China.
Coal is used in power plants to produce electricity. It is used by most street restaurants to cook food.
Coal is carried by train all over China. Mostly it comes from north China.
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Jitong Railway 2001 Part 7: Jingpeng Day 5
This video documents my one and only visit to the Jitong Railway, Inner Mongolia, China in 2001. It will be launched in several parts over Christmas 2021 - twenty years on from when I originally filmed it! The original footage has been enhanced and upscaled from 720 SD footage. This video has light enhancement and is upscaled to 4K. This may be the last part as unless I deem any video from the final footage suitable, this is it.
Yongchuan Coal Railway: Mine to Washery
This 762mm electric line is west of Chongqing. It operates in two sections with different wagons, cabooses and couplings. The first section is from the mine to the washery at Honglu. The railway had a set of 5 identical locos until one was replaced after a level crossing collision by a new loco of more modern design. Of all the Chinese narrow gauge lines I am aware of, this is the closest to a China Rail operation in miniature.