On a freezing afternoon another load of spoil heads for the dumping area on the Jixi Coal Mine Bureau in the north eastern part of China. This once extensive steam operation now replaced by diesel... (more)

On the 7th of March 2016, an empty Fly Ash train eases down the steep grade off the spoil heap at Fuxin in NE China where it is dumped. The Fly Ash is a by product of the Coal Fired Power Stations... (more)

On the 9th of March 2013, the Station Master at Metianzhen in NE China, awaits the arrival of the China Rail passenger train from Manzhouli heading to Haerbin. SY 1134 waits in the yard with a loa... (more)

On the 9th of December 2012, SY 1134 hauls a loaded Coal train into the China Rail exchange sidings at Metianzhen in NE China having travelled from the town of Wuijiu. The train will be weighed on... (more)

On the 10th of January 2012, a train dumps a load of molten slag at the Beitai Steel Works in NE China. The site was first visited by foreign steam photographers in 2002. Since that time the manag... (more)

Benxi steelworks' fleet of SY 2-8-2's has (had?) its own numbering system. A bit of detective work shows No.716 to be the former SY 0578, a 1972 product of Tangshan works. On a beautiful, crisp bu... (more)

As one gets closer to the steel furnaces, a mass of overhead wires, gantries, cranes and pipes, make photography 'challenging'. Benxi's fleet of SY's have been re-numbered in a 7xx series. Here, d... (more)

Benxi steelworks is set on a broad open plain ringed by hills. It is almost unimaginably huge by any standards, extending as far as the eye could see. Expansion of the complex was continuing at a ... (more)

Beautiful evening light casts red and yellow hues over SY 0849 as she slips away from the stabling point and returns to her duties. Fuxin is one of the last locations in China still to offer the p... (more)

I rather liked the contrast between the bruised and battered lime green front end of a 1950's-built electric and rust-stained SY 0849 built some 20 years later in July 1974. They are caught by the... (more)

The 'pit' was encased in ice and grease and it was only with great difficulty (not to mention stupidity) that I was able to clamber down to get this view. It was only then that I noticed the star ... (more)

The driver of SY 0848 pays some attention to his steed as the evening sun slips away behind a forest of wires, signals, smoke and steam. Between the locomotives is a deep ash pit. Welcomingly war... (more)

Shafts of light through smoke-stained windows pick out SY 0532 in the MPD adjacent to Chengde steelworks. She was shunting in nearby Shuangtashan yard earlier in the day and has come on to shed fo... (more)