Feng Tai Peking China 17th October 1983

            I visited China with RT&P and our first sight of Chinese steam was at Feng Tai southwest of Peking city. This train of rails hauled by JS 2-8-2 5244 climbed up onto the main line from a north-to-west spur at this location. The line then crosses the river near the Marco Polo bridge off left.

It was raining - note the two chinese ladies walking down the 4 foot with an umbrella - and we were cold & wet but, what the hell, there was real steam passing on a regular basis. I did buy a padded jacket the next day in Peking though.

In 2014 I arrived from the west at the new Fengtai station but I recognised nothing. Perhaps it's not too surprising since the internet tells me :-  "This precinct is newly urbanized in comparison to those precincts in the old city, and until the mid-1980s, it was still a mostly rural area where pig pens and goat pens were common, and major parts of the precinct had no electricity".

Taken in: China / Beijing / Lugouqiaocun (show map)

Taken on: April 25, 2024

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