Folks,
My earlier post mentioned the Yunnan-Kopei Railway.
The original French built line was the metre gauge Chemin de Fer Yunnan, 'Yunnan Railway', running from Kunming (Yunnan-fu) down to the border with what was then French Indo-China and connecting there with the French Indo-China railways.
The Kopei (Kopi) Railway was an interesting 600mm (23 5/8 inches) gauge railway that ran as a main line from Pichetchai (Bisezhai) on the CdeF Yunnan to Gejiu (Kokiu), a distance of 73 km, with a branch line from Jijie (Kikay) at 39 km to Jianshui (Lingon)at 103 km.
From about 1925 its main motive power was a group of Baldwin built 0-10-0 tender engines, one of which is now on display in the Railway Museum at Beijing.
From a China Rail timetable of 1981, the only section of this 600mm gauge line left was from Jijie to Geiju, a distance of 34 km.
The other parts of this railway had either been converted to metre gauge or by-passed by a m.g. line from Guanjiashan to Caoba, on the Yunnan Rly.
I and a mate were in Kunming many years ago, we didn't get any chance to travel on the Yunnan line, but did see in Kunming Bei yard an abandoned 2-8-0 KD 55 class m.g.loco, ex s.g. KD 5, ex Japanese Army (IGR) 9600 class, which would have likely been used on the Yunnan line.
Regards,
Bill,
Melbourne.
Further on the Kopei (Kopi) railway in Yunnan.
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