Another sunny day but with little traffic on either the Didao or Chengzihe systems. We started at Didao again but there wasn’t a lot of action in the first few hours of the day. SY 0407, 1205 and 1446 were seen. On to Chengzihe where SY 1437 stormed up the bank from Zhengyang towards Xinghua with the morning spoil train. There were no empties today. The afternoon was spent waiting for some action on the line from Didao-Hebei to the top mine but it was almost 16:00 before SY 1213 finally showed up with a train of empties.

We left for Mudanjiang Airport shortly afterwards, arriving in good time for HU 7104 at 20:50 to Beijing. It was snowing when we arrived at 23:00 and transferred to the Capital Airport Hotel for a very short night.