Sandaoling Coal Mine Railway JS 8190 makes a beautiful steamy sight as it works upgrade through the Big Curve on the Sandaoling Mine Railway.

Sandaoling Coal Mine Railway JS 8190 storms upgrade out of the long straight and into one of the sharpest curves on the mine railway. Within 5 minutes, this train will have surmounted the 2.5% gra... (more)

Late afternoon in Sandaoling is a magical hour for steam railway photography. On one such day in January 2016, JS8167 silhouette against the setting sun as the locomotive shoves an empty train awa... (more)

Sandaoling Coal Mine Railway JS 8225 thunders uphill and through the big curve on it's way up and out of the opencast pit mine with another heavy coal train. Sandaoling is the LAST great steam sho... (more)

On a coal January day in 2016, JS8190 storms past her sister, JS8225, leading a heavy coal train upgrade at Sandaoling. Just minutes before, these two steam locomotives were working as a team, whe... (more)

On a coal January day in 2016, two mainline 2-8-2s thunder upgrade with a heavy coal train at Sandaoling. Doubleheaded trains are extremely rare on the Sandaoling Mine Railway however, JS8190's tr... (more)

Sandaoling Coal Mine Railway JS 8190 thunders upgrade out of the giant opencast pit coal mine. The locomotive is just beginning the steepest part of the 4 mile climb out of the pit with 3 more mil... (more)

At Sandaoling Coal Railway on the 25th of February 2016, JS 8197 sits under the coal stage at East Yard whilst the driver sits next to the water column checking his modern smart phone. Such are so... (more)

Sunset in Sandaoling

"Jordan spreader" in action

Sandaoling Mining Railway JS8225 pulls up out of the wesat side ofg the opencast pit with another train of spoil. When this photograph was taken in 2010, Sandaoling had over 20 steam locomotives i... (more)

The dirty afternoon sky has all but taken the last remaining light as a loaded coal train blasts out of the open cut coal mine at Sandaoling in north west China. Such is the frequency of these tra... (more)

At sunrise on the 14th of January 2012, a loaded coal train drifts downhill from Beiquan underground mine at Sandaoling in the north west of China.

The workers train has just departed west yard at Sandaoling on the 3rd of March 2014. Engine crews would change over at this location twice a day to work their 12 hour shift and service the engine... (more)

On the 3rd of March 2014, the snow capped Tian Shan mountains are a backdrop for a loaded coal train returning from the underground mine at Beiquan on the Sandaoling Coal Railway in north west Chi... (more)