Chinese Steam: The Last Years [Audiobook] download free by David Kitching
- Listen audiobook: Chinese Steam: The Last Years
- Author: David Kitching
- Release date: 2017/2/12
- Publisher: AMBERLEY PUBLISHING
- Language: English
- Genre or Collection: Transportation
- ISBN: 9781445676203
- Rating: 8.35 of 10
- Votes: 841
- Review by: Kenzie Linder
- Review rating: 7.67 of 10
- Review Date: 2018/10/19
- Duration: 1H13M14S in 256 kbps (19.2 MB)
- Date of creation of the audiobook: 2018-08-07
- You can listen to this audiobook in formats: FLAC, WAV, MP3, MPEG-4 DST, MPEG4, WMA (compression RAR, TAR.GZ, TAR.LZO, ZIP)
- Total pages original book: 96
- Includes a PDF summary of 7 pages
- Duration of the summary (audio): 5M35S (1.4 MB)
- Description or summary of the audiobook: China was the last bastion of the steam railway, with construction of new steam locomotives for industrial use continuing up to the end of 1999. Even now a few locomotives struggle on at collieries and other industrial premises, but this is likely to end very soon as boiler overhauls are almost impossible to obtain at an economical price.As the steam era was drawing to a close in China, steam enthusiasts visited the remaining operational locations in an increasingly desperate attempt to record what was happening before it was too late. The Chinese, while often perplexed at the interest expressed by the foreign enthusiasts, were generally welcoming and allowed access to industrial premises and linesides across the vast country. The locations ranged from the far western deserts of Xinjiang to the industrial heartlands of Manchuria with excursions into central China and the Mongolian Autonomous Region. Steelworks and collieries were prominent along with the occasional narrow gauge survivors.This book showcases the photographs obtained by one enthusiast over ten visits to China between 1992 and 2017.
- Other categories, genre or collection: Asian History, Trains & Railways
- Download servers: Zippyshare, BitShare, FreakShare, Hotfile, Torrent, Volafile, pyget, Google Drive, 4Shared, Uploaded. Compressed in RAR, TAR.GZ, TAR.LZO, ZIP
- Format: Paperback
- Approximate value: 17.80 USD
- Dimensions: 165x234x15mm
- Weight: 304g
- Printed by: Not Available
- Published in: Chalford, United Kingdom
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