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Standard Datong QJ or JS plate, 1981.
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Earlier version. A heavier casting
giving the month of build. From a QJ.
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Front board from a QJ. Some locos had
these embellishments mounted
at the top of the smokebox.
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Dalian JS plate, March 1960. This mixes
simplified and full-form characters.
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Alternative (later?) style of Dalian JS
plate. Note that the plate is a different shape, the star
has been replaced by a China Rail logo, simplified characters
are used exclusively and it has become Ministry of Railways
rather than "state operated".
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Front numberplate from a JS. The corn on the
left represents agriculture and the impression of a cog wheel on
the right, industry. Note that these motifs are also evident on
the plate from QJ 2989 above.
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Dalian MK 1 plate, July 1956.
"MK" or "mor-ke" ( a phonetic for "mikado") was the designation for 2-8-2s.
They were
renamed "jiefang" or JF class ("liberation") the
following year.
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Qiqiha'er (Qiqihar) MK 1 plate.
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Sifang MK1 plate.
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Dalian JF plate December 1957.
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Jinan YJ "yuejin" ("leap
forward") plate, 1959. YJs were 2-6-2s, pre-1949 examples
being known as "PL" = "plairlie" (prairie)!
This plate is from YJ 235.
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Tangshan SY plate. This is an early
example from February 1967.
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Worksplate and cabside number plate set from
SY 0238. This was a Shougang (Beijing Steelworks)
loco. The cabside number is fabricated.
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Shijiazhuang plate, probably from a C2 narrow
gauge (762mm) 0-8-0.
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Qishuyan
plate, probably from a JS. Qishuyan built 130 JS in 1960 and 257
in total.
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Large "Zhongguo Gongqingtuan" badge
from a cabside. 中国共青团 is the
Chinese Communist Party's Youth League. The quality of the
casting particularly of the characters is not great.
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Small "Zhongguo Gongqingtuan" badge
from a cabside. Few other Chinese loco plates seem to be made of
brass. Casting flaws were repaired, not very well by, filling
with lead.
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Flag from a cabside, made of ali. with brass
characters bolted from the back. The writing says (top line:
"Study (or learn from) the Mao Zedong locomotive",
bottom line: " model locomotive group (crew)" i.e. an
award for the crew or groups of crews on that loco.
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Large and small forestry logos.
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Numberplate from a Zhanhe C2.
"S" I think stands for "senlin" (forest) and
"Z" for Zhanhe.
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SS1 plate, Zhuzhou 1974. SS1s were the
first Chinese domestically produced mainline electrics and are
rather handsome machines. Presumably this
loco was a casualty.
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Electroputere plate from an ND2 (the ND3s came
later, 1984 onwards).
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LEW Hennigsdorf plate from No 17032 of 1979. I
think this is from a V1000 from the Jilin area.
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