China's delightful Jiayang narrow gauge railway.

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  • Опубліковано 24 лют 2021
  • Thisdelightful little railway, in China's Sichuan Province, runs from the shops at Shibanxi to the mine at Huancunjing. Electrics serve the lower portion of the line from the washer to Shibanxi. Steam powers the coal trains, and passenger trains to the villages along the line. Sadly the mine closed, passenger trains were discontinues, and only the odd tourist train now runs. My still photographs mixed with video clips comprise this program.

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  • @GreatCenteralGlory
    @GreatCenteralGlory Рік тому +18

    Even when they’re mucky and grimy, steam engines still have an unparalleled beauty

  • @flyingporker100
    @flyingporker100 Рік тому +10

    Gorgeous photography - each still tells a story. I loved the rickety old engine with its equally rickety carriages. No new fangled stuff like continuous brakes. And the ash-pan dumping hot ash and coal between the rails. And the loco wheels locked up as the engine came to a halt - driver enjoying his ciggie.😄

  • @densondirosa4497
    @densondirosa4497 8 днів тому

    Beautiful scenery, wonderful little trains. We hava lotta differences in our 2 cultures, but it seems the more difficult a situation is, the more beauty is brought into focus.

  • @REDISCOVER7769
    @REDISCOVER7769 Рік тому +7

    Really awesome videography feels like being transported back to good old days. ❤️❤️

  • @lorrainedimmock4096
    @lorrainedimmock4096 Рік тому +1

    Great video and just love how life is over there, our country UK is so sterile now, this is like going back 60 years, and it looks awesome....!

  • @allan5919
    @allan5919 Рік тому +4

    Very enjoyable viewing. Amazing video!

  • @davebutterworth7414
    @davebutterworth7414 3 місяці тому

    Excellent photography, really enjoyed it thanks ❤

  • @howarth004
    @howarth004 Рік тому +3

    Class ...and very good photography and video footage ...

  • @stavio12
    @stavio12 2 роки тому +2

    Not only is the Engine puffing away but so are the drivers🤣🤣🤣

  • @mattkelly4684
    @mattkelly4684 Рік тому +3

    Makes me want to Build a model railway

  • @slurjkblohm
    @slurjkblohm Рік тому +3

    That is a big narrow gauge engine

  • @OStrip
    @OStrip Рік тому +1

    great work.

  • @juanbautistagilli8474
    @juanbautistagilli8474 4 місяці тому +1

    MUY BUENO JUAN DE V.MARIA CORDOBA

  • @stephensmith799
    @stephensmith799 Рік тому +3

    A very successful design of locomotive; originally Russian but adapted and improved in China. One is in North Wales being converted to 2” gauge. Not fast but very powerful Starting Tractive Effort. CORRECTION: please see next post below!

    • @joukoniemi9250
      @joukoniemi9250 Рік тому +3

      Originally from Finland. We had to give those locomotives to Russia after II WW + many ships, houses, machineries for papermills and other industry +,+,+,+. Those locomotives were made in city Tampere by Lokomo and Tampella.

    • @stephensmith799
      @stephensmith799 Рік тому

      @@joukoniemi9250 Thanks 🙏 I did not know that. We are finding out again how keen Russia can be on stealing from neighbouring countries.

    • @joukoniemi9250
      @joukoniemi9250 Рік тому

      @@stephensmith799 Originally 572 locomotives were made to Russia in Finland. But later on they made themself more and allso made many eastern European countries that were under Russian influence. Those 572 was a small part of the whole payment. All given ships put together would have been a 30 km long queue + maschineries with power plants for 30 factories +,+,+

    • @stephensmith799
      @stephensmith799 Рік тому

      @@joukoniemi9250 It didn’t help the USSR. Finland is recognised internationally today as the Happiest, Most Healthy, Best Educated, Most Meritocratic and Least Criminal among nations. It is a blessing to be born a Finlander.

    • @Britlurker
      @Britlurker 11 місяців тому +2

      @@stephensmith799 I think there is a misunderstanding here. These are Soviet designed locos from the 1930s later built in Poland and China. Sure, some may have ended up in Finland and taken by the USSR post-WW2. But they are not originally Finnish. Most/all the Chinese examples were built in China anyway.

  • @caroleast9636
    @caroleast9636 2 роки тому +13

    Proper working railway doing it’s job, moving it’s passengers, hasn’t spent billions on fancy stations, but it’s still going! I think some our politicians should learn from this.

    • @ArthurAndNormandyFan1
      @ArthurAndNormandyFan1 Рік тому +2

      I mean it's now closed.

    • @Train115
      @Train115 Рік тому +1

      I am assuming you live in the UK and don't like the idea of the highspeed rail that's being worked on.

  • @candldagreat982
    @candldagreat982 4 місяці тому

    isnt this also what is kniwn as, 'the waddling train'?

  • @theslicefactor4590
    @theslicefactor4590 7 місяців тому +1

    That kitchen looks dirtier than the loco 3:41

  • @hemantthapa5254
    @hemantthapa5254 Рік тому

    Really enjoyed the videography seeing those old steam engines hauling the passenger coaches in between the fancy stations.Is it still running?

  • @user-mm1nt1it5v
    @user-mm1nt1it5v 9 місяців тому

    This is what id imagine north korea looks like in all the rural parts of the country.

  • @quixkiwi5337
    @quixkiwi5337 Рік тому +3

    You state that the passenger trains were "discontinued" (when you uploaded this video in 2021)
    But then, in 2022 someone else has a long video of it running..?
    Which I watched first about two hours ago (incidentally) - via:
    ua-cam.com/video/dTwcnY0GJlY/v-deo.html
    Only finding your earlier video - as a suggestion much later...
    Thus which is it closed or running twice daily?

    • @petercrook4626
      @petercrook4626  Рік тому +1

      When the video was uploaded has no relationship to when it was shot - 2010. The mine closed, the coal trains were obviously no longer running, and the passenger trains for the locals were discontinued . Tourist trains, as far as I know (for Chinese tourists) still run. I have no idea, not having watched it, when the other program was shot.

  • @D0g_boy642
    @D0g_boy642 2 роки тому +1

    It looks like it’s a ghost train

  • @SuperBmw730d
    @SuperBmw730d 11 місяців тому

    Где это место находится 9:45?

  • @Mhbjr
    @Mhbjr Рік тому

    What is the gauge?

  • @jankochanowski3252
    @jankochanowski3252 Рік тому

    3:35 what are the two women on the tracks doing?

    • @petercrook4626
      @petercrook4626  Рік тому +1

      Looks like they are raking through the ashes looking for unburned lumps of coal.

    • @khagendas5012
      @khagendas5012 Рік тому +1

      Collecting Unburned coal

  • @Tv-dh3wg
    @Tv-dh3wg Рік тому

    Я-таки понял, что это паровоз Кп4 местного разлива

  • @railnaeroproduction6264
    @railnaeroproduction6264 2 роки тому +2

    6:26

  • @butchkaminsky9470
    @butchkaminsky9470 Рік тому

    Carbon footprint? We don't care about no print here!

  • @ipnovitochannel8427
    @ipnovitochannel8427 6 місяців тому

    ua-cam.com/video/Q7R9PBeWt1I/v-deo.html

  • @diesel_automotive
    @diesel_automotive 7 місяців тому

    i think china went too far look at that filter in top of chimney when the filter showed up like that it feels the loco is ugly 😂

  • @TheVRSofa
    @TheVRSofa Рік тому +2

    Awesome but, ya know....china....human rights and all that.