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China's Steam Trains Approaching Final Destination
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China's Steam Trains Approaching Final Destination
The country's functioning steam trains are on route to extinction, as the
advantages they provide are little to none.
04 April 2015 12:08 GMT
Science & Technology, China, Asia
Adrian Brown
Aljazeera
http://www.aljazeera.com/blogs/asia/2015/04/
china-steam-trains-approaching-final-destination-150404092530882.html
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A shorter URL for the above link:
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http://tinyurl.com/nvevmlw
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China is modernising but it feels like I have been transported back to the
satanic mills of Victorian England. It's an endless depressing vista of
industrial sprawl.
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Like the mines, the train is also close to extinction. And no one is
really sure what will finish first.
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"This train will be eliminated sooner or later," one worker tells me. "As
for my future, I think the mines and factories will be shut down."
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As I canvas opinion about the impending end of Chinas steam age, I sense
not a hint of sentimentality or misty eyed nostalgia.
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"I dont see advantages to this steam train. Its so dirty," says another
worker. "Look at it. Its a commuter train. Thats it."
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The Shang Yu, though, faces a more immediate problem: spare parts.
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There are no longer factories to make them. So the areas surviving steam
train must rely on cannibalised parts from two retired veterans, that now
stand in a dilapidated rail yard outside Baiyin.
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On the wall I notice a jaunty propaganda poster showing a bullet train
beside a stream train. Its a reminder that modernity is on the fast track
in China.
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The country now has the largest high speed rail network in the world, and
its set to double in size in the next decade. So its now the beginning of
the end for the areas remaining steam train.
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The complete article may be read at the URL above.
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