Welcome to SY-Country

In October 2006, Florian Menius announced on the Yahoo Steam_in_China website that he wished to discontinue updating his own QJ-Country site in the near future. As, unlike Florian, I still have a continuing interest in the steam situation in China, I felt it would be a great loss if there was no longer an up to date website with the contents of QJ-Country. I therefore contacted Florian about the future of the site.

Florian accepted my proposal to create a new website with a new name which will now be hosted and maintained from the UK. The new name prevents any confusion over who now maintains the data. The contents of QJ-Country have been transferred to SY-Country almost unchanged, and I am grateful to Florian for providing the data he has set up and maintained over the last eight years.

I look forward to receiving brief news items and details either of links to trip reports on other websites or reports to be placed on this website. If there is a picture gallery associated with a trip, please give me the information to provide a direct link from the trip reports index. In the medium term I hope to have a picture gallery facility for trip reports added to this site.

Dave Fielding, Balsall Common, Coventry, UK, e-mail: webmaster@sy-country.co.uk