I've always felt the San Marino line -- a scenic delight -- to have had a heartbreakingly short life: twelve years or so, ended for all time by...
I travelled on this line in the early / mid-1990s; magnificently scenic journey. Had been unaware of its 2010 misfortune: I tend to be out of...
My only visit to China was in summer 1996; a bit humdrum -- China Rail steam then definitely on the way out: you had to carefully pick your...
My bolding above: @huochemi -- I don't know what the Chinese is for "confusion reigns"; but that seems to be happening between yourself, @mickpop,...
The above, had been my understanding; without having read Mr. Clark's book. But -- yes; machine pictured, an FD not a QJ (external appearances...
Perhaps I'm being dense: but the referred-to picture would seem to me -- unless I'm "missing a trick" -- to be of a QJ 2-10-2; class KD was a...
An aspect of class QJ which intrigues me, is its Russian-connection aspect: associated with Chinese / USSR co-operation / assistance, prior to the...
Have just noticed this sequence of posts. I've always wished ardently, that I could have been around at a time / place to have been able to...
The 5'3" gauge seems a bit fated, to be the cause of hard feelings and disharmony. Witness the events leading to the greater part of Australia's...
972mm -- that, I feel, displays a kind of genius. It's almost, but not quite, metre gauge: nearer to it in fact, than the Italian version of...
I find it something of an oddity, how little the 3'6" gauge featured in general, in the British Isles -- it being in our Imperial scheme of...
A little trivia about the Thamshavn Railway: it is believed to be Norway's only instance ever -- for lines having had a public common-carrier...
"Bumping" thread after a fair few months; re the various posts concerning "end of steam" (various definitions) in Poland (that country rather a...
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