Friday, 14 September 2012

Visit to a Pottery Village and Stationery Distribution to 8 Schools

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Events of Thursday, 13th September 2012 A wind from the south caused a certain amount of buffeting of waves against the hull during Wednes...
Thursday, 13 September 2012

Boarding the 'Road to Mandalay'

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Events of Wednesday, 12th September 2012 The alarm woke me at 5.30 a.m. to give me time for a shower and getting dressed before breakfast ...
Tuesday, 11 September 2012

Back to Yangon

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Tuesday, 11th September 2012 I’d slept quite well at the Zwekabin Hotel and was quite sorry to leave at 8.30 a.m. We took the Yangon roa...
Monday, 10 September 2012

Leaving Mawlamyine

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Monday, 10th September 2012 After my customary breakfast, I took a short walk along the promenade before checking-out and meeting Min an...
Sunday, 9 September 2012

South of Mawlamyine, Burma

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Sunday, 9th September 2012 I had a decent breakfast before being picked up by Min and the driver in the ‘HiAce’. We were to head south o...

Yangon to Kyaikto by Train

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During my trip to Burma in 2012 (described in a series of posts here ), I travelled by train from Yangon via Bago to Kyaikto. This post de...
Saturday, 8 September 2012

By Rail and Road to Mawlamyine

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Saturday, 8th September 2012 My Blackberry (used as an alarm clock) woke me at 5.40 a.m. after a good, if rather short, sleep. By the ti...
Thursday, 6 September 2012

East Again!

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Thursday, 6th September 2012 There's so much of the world I've not yet seen (and, sadly, probably never will) that I tend to vi...

A Busy Few Days

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Recently, I've had four days on the footplate out of six. Thursday, 30th August 2012 It started on Thursday 30th August when I was ...
Friday, 31 August 2012

Day out with Thomas at MOSI

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'Thomas' ready to depart on Thursday 30th August 2012. 'Thomas' is visiting MOSI (the Museum of Science and Industry...
Tuesday, 28 August 2012

Numbering of Russian Locomotives and Rolling Stock

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Agriz station buildings hide behind the waiting freight trains. 72-tonne bogie hopper car 5934 9738 (1984 numbering system) in the foreg...
Friday, 24 August 2012

Loco-profile 4: Russian 'FD20' class 2-10-2

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'FD20' Class 2-10-2 number 588 at Novosibirsk Rolling Stock Museum. In the early 1930s, the Soviet Union introduced two modern...

Loco-profile 3: Russian 'FDp20' class 2-8-4

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Surviving 'FDp20' class (formerly IS class) plinthed near Kiev main station. In the early 1930s, the Soviet Union introduced t...
Tuesday, 21 August 2012

Mongolian Railways

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Ulaan Baatar, showing the two-section Mongolian Railways diesel-electric locomotive off the Eastbound 'Golden Eagle' Trans-Mongo...
Monday, 20 August 2012

The Bear's Story

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A Guest Writer takes over for this Post. Captain Chocolate, after a day on the Footplate. Hello. My name is Captain Chocolate. My na...
Friday, 17 August 2012

Loco-profile 2: Russian 'YeA' Class

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Having been brought up with a multitude of steam locomotive designs in England, it was a surprise when I discovered how few different des...