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Last updated: 11 February 2011

Last Call for March visit to China - Sichuan Narrow Gauge including Shibanxi. You still have just enough time to book your flight and obtain your China visa. Click here or on Steam Tours below.

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New DVDs

Download the description used on the back of the DVD cover for this DVD here.

View a clip on YouTube.

Buy this DVD now for £18 including postage worldwide.

 

You can read about the trip I made to shoot this video here.

View a clip on YouTube.

Buy this DVD now for £24 including postage worldwide.

Trainspotting Quiz

The Christmas - New Year Steam Quiz has ended. I have contacted the winners Andreas, Chris, Michael & Rudy. If you submitted an entry and are not on this list, please contact me as I may have overlooked your entry.


Clip Number
 Loco number/name, location, details of DVD the clip is from
1.
 99 749 (Zittau, Germany) from my new DVD ‘Saxon Stars in Winter’
2.
 Howard + No. 1 (Harrogate) – (Statfold Barn, UK) – from the forthcoming SBR 2011 DVD
3.
 (JS) 6224 (Sandaoling, China) – from ‘Outposts of Steam’
4.
 (SY) 2008 (Baiyin, China) - from ‘Outposts of Steam’
5.
 87 (Welsh Highland Railway, Wales, UK) – from ‘Garratts around Beddgelert’
6.
 99 7241-5 (Harz, Germany) – from ‘The Brocken in Winter’
7.
 57014 (Izmir, Turkey) – from the forthcoming ‘When Steam was real – Turkey: Western Anatolia’
8.
 No. 7 (Caiziba – Shibanxi, China) – from ‘Shibanxi Renaissance’
9.
 6, 10, 9, (S)3, 11, (Sumberharjo, Java) (3, 6, 9, 10, 11) – from ‘Steamy Java 2010’
10.
 (SY) 1018 (Fuxin, China) - from ‘Outposts of Steam’

Reports & Blogs

I have just returned from a winter trip to Dresden and Zittau. The report is here.
In September-October, I led a group to Baiyin, Sandaoling, Yamansu and Fuxin. I wrote an illustrated blog of the trip.

Steam Tours

Details of the March 2012 trip to Shibanxi and October-November 2012 trip to Sandaoling, Baiyin & Shibanxi are now available here.

DVDs

Double DVD - Outposts of Steam
I've just finished editing the Double DVD of the September-October 2011 trip and the footage on the DVDs comes from three major surviving Chinese steam centres - to Baiyin, Sandaoling & Fuxin - to my mind they are the best that is left on the standard gauge in China and the world. Footage includes JS- and SY-hauled passenger and freight trains.

Click on the image to see a full-size version of the cover.

Read more about this DVD and my trip here.

You can buy this double DVD for £24 postage paid to anywhere in the world.

YouTube Videos

My Christmas-New Year 2011-2 Trainspotting Quiz is still available on YouTube. You can either view it at http://www.youtube.com/user/trundlebahn/videos or on a separate page. However, the quiz has now ended and the answers appear above. You may still enjoy watching the clips, though.

 

This webpage is created and owned by John Raby

You can contact me at lwj@linesiding.co.uk

The background image is of the Weihe passenger train, China in the late 1990s.