UK - Buying a Chinese C2 for Welsh Highland Railway, 2006

In 2006, some friends of ours from the Ffestiniog and Welsh Highland Railways decided they might like to buy one of the powerful little Chinese C2 0-8-0’s. The limestone railway at Dahuichang in the Beijing suburbs was the obvious destination, being handy to visit and easy to arrange shipment. So Dandan set about making arrangements for the guys to have an opportunity to closely examine Number 4 and check out its suitability. Number 4 duly passed all its examinations and was subsequently purchased for use o