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SY Country: A selection of images from steam railways in northern China.

Jitong Railway, Inner Mongolia: World famous, dramatic and spectacular, already legendary, impossible to describe without lapsing into cliche, the ‘Last Great Steam Show On The Planet’  succumbed to diesel haulage in 2005. Those lucky or determined enough to have witnessed this highly improbable spectacle in the 21st Century were privileged indeed.

JS Country: a new page of images added following a visit to north west China in November 2008. Almost 30 class JS locos were hard at work at Sandaoling.