Скачать или смотреть Shibanxi 2011 Part 1: First Impressions

This was the very first Linesiding Tour in March 2011. Since then, there have been 21 more tours and we have returned to Shibanxi around 9 times but this was the first and the tour was planned to only visit Shibanxi and to stay for 10 days in Bagou and Sanjin. I had been staying in Bagou with my wife celebrating my 60th birthday before the group arrived but she flew home and I picked the group up at Chengdu Airport. This footage focusses on what the group saw on 8 March 2011. These would have been their first impressions. Coal trains were running, the coal mine was working, the electrics were operating on the bottom section, passenger trains were running with tourist coaches attached in some cases and with additional freight wagons and there were some additional tourist trains. There was even some sunshine! And we managed a depot visit! All-in-all a good time to visit the Jiayang Coal Railway at Shibanxi (near Qianwei, Sichuan, China). Our guide was the ever youthful Zebedee.