Our Digitally Remastered Series are bigger, better and in stunning HD for the very first time! These are the original programmes which have been put through the upscale and remastering treatment with improvements to audio, colour balance, contrast and most of all - picture quality. Some of the trains featured here were never filmed in HD or in broadcast quality. Now, for the first time - you can enjoy just that!
Mudanjiang repair workshops, JS's on the Heilong Branch, Steam around Tumen. The awesome pit at Jalainur, QJ's in the snow over JingPeng Pass. Also, Yebaishou and the Chengde Steelworks Branch.
During 20 days travelling in China by rail our film covers the spectacular open-cast coalmine at Jalainur home to 59 SY Class locomotives. Steam in the snow on JingPeng Pass, Freight traffic around Yebaishou, JS's on the Heilong branch, QJ's on freight and passenger at Tumen. SY's and JS's bank coal trains on the Chengde Steelworks branch. See the repair workshops at Mudanjiang where steam locomotives are still repaired. Plus the sights and sounds of Beijing.
Produced by - Belhurst Productions
Running time - 56 Minutes
Blu-ray and DVD
Released - 1998
Re-released - April 2024