Customer Reviews

China by Rail

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For a travel guide, I rate this book 5 stars. A book on China Rail, it's not! There's 1 chapter on the history of Railways in China but no photos of trains. I was looking for a book on "China Rail" and found this.

Well laid out with Rail Maps showing different sections of the country and then the chapters following give the "travel guide" for that section. The usual "where to go, what to do and see" stuff.

A more appropriate title should have been "Traveling China by Rail" It's misleading for someone looking for a railroad book.

This was an excellent little book that I used on my first trip to China, it is compact and full of useful information about buying tickets and the idiosyncracies of rail travel in China. It doesn't contain as much tourist information as the bigger guide books but does give the traveller all the information that is needed get to get anywhere in China by rail. I used this book to travel by rail from HongKong to Guilin, Kunming, Dali,Chengdu, Xian and Beijing. Obviously the new rail route to Tibet had not been built when this edition was published so a revised edition would be a useful guide

Pretty shallow book. Not good for railfan or travellers. For travellers, one can find much better information some where else. For railfans, it is more disappointing. I don't recommend this book.