Fuzhouwan Narrow Gauge Salt Railway
15 April 2018

Our initial visit yesterday found the railway not working after rain on Friday. However, today it was back in action. Being low-season for salt production, the activity was limited to one salt train making several trips and an engineers train working on the track

247-07 in the workshop for repair

Salt train coming from the current working salt fields to the south west. The signal box is now defunct - I'm sure mobile phones are used to control train movements - and we were standing on a derelict sg line which the salt railway passes under

Salt is loaded into the wagons - 25 4-ton wagons make up a train. Loading takes about 2.5 hours

The only really manual part is making sure that the wagons load properly

This winch hauls the wagons forwards so that all 25 get loaded without moving the loading gear

This caterpillar track vehicle is sucking up the salt which is loaded onto the wagons

217-06 has dropped its empty wagons and is going to pick up the loaded wagons

The loco is on the salt train waiting to pull them forward

The loco pulling the loaded wagons forward. It will then leave these to push the empty wagons to the loading point

A salt train heading to the storage area

The machinery to move the salt to the storage pile has been renewed since my last visit in 2009

247-10 on the works train

The salt factory loco has details differences and a different paint scheme to the line locos