China - SY, JS & QJ at Pingdingshan, 2003 (Part 2)

To the average west European eyes, Pingdingshan must have seemed like Dante's Inferno! However, to my north of England eyes, it was like taking a time machine straight back to Britain's industrial heartland of the 1950s and 60s. Wherever you looked, there were usually 2 or 3 steam locomotives to be seen. Here we see locomotives of classes SY, JS and QJ working the central sorting sidings outside the main loco depot. Filmed in 2003.