| Date |
Change |
| 10 November 2006 |
Tractive Efforts Reports, Maps, Movies, Links have all been moved onto Railography, leaving only the photo galleries. Tractive Efforts effectively ceased to exist on this date. |
| 21 May 2006 |
Seven new movies from Bryan Acford covering the current scene at Jixi and historic footage from Nancha and Hunjiang in the mid 1990s. |
| 15 March 2006 |
Return to SY Heaven. Report of a return visit trip to some of the main industrial steam centres of the north-east including Meihekou, Jixi and Zhalainuoer. Includes Jiaojie Ironworks, a JF guarding the Russian border and the Iron Bull of Jixi. |
| 08 December 2005 |
New Gallery Added - Pictures from the Huanan section of the September trip added. |
| 08 December 2005 |
New Gallery Added - Pictures from the North West Frontier trip added. |
| 01 December 2005 |
New Report Added - North West Frontier. A trip to see industrial steam in Xinjiang and Gansu, visiting Yamansu, Sandaoling, Yaojie, Tiehejinchang, Liujiaxia and Baiyin. |
| 21 October 2005 |
Class and Location Lists Updated. |
| 16 October 2005 |
JiTong Finale pictures added. |
| 20 September 2005 |
New Report Added - Main Line Steam Finale - A final visit to the JiTong line followed by a few days on the Huanan narrow gauge. |
| 03 July 2005 |
Class and Location Lists Updated. Loco Finder page added to Gricers Guide. |
| 10 May 2005 |
Class and Location Lists Updated. Modified Gricers Guide Index Page. |
| 09 April 2005 |
Class and Location Lists Updated. |
| 27 March 2005 |
Class and Location Lists Updated. |
| 25 March 2005 |
Jixi Didao and Jixi Lishu detail maps added.
March 2005 Photo Galleries added. |
| 19 March 2005 |
Jixi Overview Map, Meihekou Mine Railway Map added. High Definition Meihekou Map added. |
| 18 March 2005 |
New Report Added - Manchurian Industrials - A successful trip to Meihekou, Jixi, Dayan, Jalainur and Dahuichang in early March 2005. |
| 20 February 2005 |
Location Lists expanded to almost 300 operations in two series, CNR Bureaux and Non CNR Locations including industrial and local railways and museums. Cross linking added between location and class lists. |
| 13 February 2005 |
Bryan Acford's report of his trip to Pingdingshan, Yuzhou, Xingyang, Tiefa, Lindong, Yuanbaoshan and Pingzhuang in January/February 2005. |
| 13 February 2005 |
Number Lists updated. More historic data added. More Location Lists added |
| 27 January 2005 |
Lindong Pictures added to December 2004 photo gallery. |
| 26 January 2005 |
Number Lists brought up to date.
Class Profiles added for FD class 2-10-2s, KD6 class 2-8-0s, KD7 class 2-8-0s.
Number Lists added for FD, KD6, KD7 and 42 other classes.
Location Lists section added with rosters for individual locations. |
| 17 January 2005 |
Number Lists updated. 4 new Bryan Acford movies added. |
| 14 January 2005 |
Central China Winter 2004/5 pictures added. |
| 11 January 2005 |
New Report Added - Central China - The Xuzhou area and Pingdingshan over the New Year. |
| 25 December 2004 |
December 2004 photo gallery added - Jingpeng Pass initially |
| 15 December 2004 |
New Report added - Farewell to Main Line Steam - The JiTong Railway in December 2004. |
| 12 November 2004 |
Pacifics gallery added. A photo feature on the last years of the SL6 and RM pacifics |
| 08 November 2004 |
SL6 Class Pacifics added to the Gricer's Guide |
| 06 November 2004 |
RM Class Pacifics added to the Gricer's Guide |
| 05 November 2004 |
Links page updated.
Link to Toshyuki Agura's website added (http://rose.zero.ad.jp/agura/index.html).
Links to TravelChinaGuide Rail and Air timetables added.
Links to Wunderground weather pages added (NE, NW, Cen, SW, SE China).
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| 31 October 2004 |
Six new movies from Bryan Acford, shot on our September trip to the JiTong Railway and Huanan, plus two from the Weihe Forestry Railway in 2000.
Sandi Glint, Yuzhoudi Single, Dabaliang at Dawn, Xiakengzi Flier, Huanan Marrow Field, Huanan Summit, Shuangfeng, Pinglin Passenger. |
| 12 October 2004 |
ET7 class 0-8-0Ts, GJ class 0-6-0Ts, XK2 class 0-6-0Ts, XK13 class 0-6-0Ts added to the Gricer's Guide.
Gricer's Guide number lists updated. |
| 08 October 2004 |
Latest info added to Gricer's Guide number lists.
Shangdian Single - Added Bryan Acford's video clip of QJ 7041 approaching Shangdian in Feb 2001. |
| 05 October 2004 |
Significant update to Gricer's Guide number lists. All published lists brought up to date and additional historic data added. |
| 02 October 2004 |
** NEW ** September 2004 Photo Galleries added. 27 Pictures from Yuanbaoshan, Jingpeng Pass, Lindong and the Huanan narrow gauge. |
| 27 September 2004 |
** NEW ** September 2004 Trip Report added. A trip to Yuanbaoshan, Jingpeng Pass, Lindong and the Huanan narrow gauge. |
| 22 August 2004 |
Experimental Location Based Rosters added to the Gricer's Guide.
QJ Class vital statistics now differentiate between 8 & 12 wheel tender locos. |
| 21 August 2004 |
Gricer's Guide Locomotive Lists brought up to date. |
| 17 August 2004 |
QJ Class 2-10-2s added to Class by Class. Minor mods to other classes.
Updated Gricer's Guide index page.
Five more of Bryan Acford's video clips added to Movies section |
| 06 August 2004 |
JS Class 2-8-2s added to Class by Class. Minor mods to other classes. |
| 28 July 2004 |
More Classes added to the Gricer's Guide, Class by Class section: JF class 2-8-2s, JF6 class 2-8-2s and YJ class 2-6-2s. Update to SY class 2-8-2s. |
| 30 June 2004 |
The latest addition to the Gricer's Guide is Class by Class, a series of profiles of China's major steam classes. These will consist of a brief description of each class and a list showing the location of those locos reported over recent years. The series starts with profiles of two of the more significant industrial classes; PL2 class 2-6-2s and SY class 2-8-2s. |
| 05 May 2004 |
A Gricer's Guide . . . A new section for background information on China's railways. Initially, there's a page on Chinese Locomotive Numbering and another detailing the major Steam Classes. |
| 16 March 2004 |
Movies Section added with Bryan Acford's Feb 2004 Video Clips. |
| 07 March 2004 |
Bryan Acford's February report added. Beijing Museum, Dahuichang, Lindong and Reshui.
Tiefa & Nanpiao Maps added. |
| 06 March 2004 |
February Trip pictures added. |
| 03 March 2004 |
February Trip Report added. A visit to industrial railways at Tongchuan, Pingdingshan, Nanpiao, Huludao and Tiefa and the railway museums at Beijing and Shenyang. |
| 04 February 2004 |
Redesigned Tractive Efforts Interface uploaded.
More and bigger Summer 2003 pictures uploaded
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| 08 January 2004 |
e-mail link changed. Link between Tractive Efforts and Railography photo galleries added. |
| 02 January 2004 |
Various broken links, particularly on this page, fixed ... I hope. |
| 30 December 2003 |
Bryan Acford's Chabuga and Pingzhuang maps added
Weihe and Tiefa pictures improved. Additional shots added to Weihe photoset.
Photo Index enhanced. |
| 29 December 2003 |
Site Transfer from Virgin Net to railography.co.uk completed. |
| 28 December 2003 |
December trip report added. Nanpiao and the JiTong Railway. |
| 25 September 2003 |
Bryan Acford's additional September 2003 notes added. |
| 17 September 2003 |
August/September 2003 trip report added. |
| 12 March 2003 |
February/March 2003 trip report added.
Tiefa photos added.
Weihe photos added.
Links Page modified to open links to other sites in new windows. |
| 01 January 2003 |
New Link to QJ-News newsgroup added to Links page.
New Link to Bernd Seiler's FarRail site added to Links Page.
Winter 1984/5 Photos added to Photo Index.
Personal Favorite Photos added to Photo Index |
| 18 December 2002 |
Site Interface updated.
Addition of Links and Reports pages.
No significant changes to content. |
| 11 December 2002 |
Yuanbaoshan map updated
Pingdingshan map updated
September/October 2002 trip report updated with further info on Pingdingshan from Bruce Evans and Li Weishu and corrections to Yuanbaoshan section.
Minor corrections to Pingdingshan photo page |
| 09 December 2002 |
November/December 2002 trip report added.
A trip to Jingpeng, Lindong, Pingzhuang and Yuanbaoshan . |
| 19 November 2002 |
Dahuichang photos from autumn 2002 added
Jingpeng - Shangdian photos from autumn 2002 added
Galadesitai - Shangdian photos from autumn 2002 added
Daban - Galadesitai photos from autumn 2002 added |
| 15 November 2002 |
Photo Index added
Pingdingshan photos from autumn 2002 added
Pingzhuang photos from autumn 2002 added |
| 01 November 2002 |
Pingdingshan map added
Yuanbaoshan map added
Pingzhuang map added |
| 11 October 2002 |
September/October 2002 trip report added
An autumn visit to the Ji-Tong Railway, Pingdingshan and the Chifeng area mine railways. |
