International Steam Locomotives 2012

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I have spent many, many hours trying to cull the broken links on this site (29th March 2012).
As there are over 16,000 links present, I had to use an automated system to check each one
and draw up a list which I then worked through manually.
The worst offenders by far were websites in Australia and Brazil, I don't know why.
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	The Penang Hill Railway 2012 (video link added 16^th Apr 2012)
	No more real Steam in Zimbabwe? (updated 16^th Apr 2012)
	Another Resurrection - Ecuador Railway Rebuilt (13^th Apr 2012)
	Steam Revival in Cambodia (19^th Mar 2012)
	India's Tipong Colliery resumes operation (updated 17^th Mar 2011)
	PNKA Wallahs - Indonesian Steam 40 years Ago (updated 2^nd Mar 2012)
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	Railway Museums Worldwide (updated 30^th Jan 2012)
	Mixed News for India's EIR Sesquicentenarians (6^th Sep 2011)
	Kenyan Steam in Action Again (updated 10^th Aug 2011)
	Spectacular Derailment at Esquel (video link, 28^th Jun 2011)
	Birds of a Feather.... (Railtour Operators - updated 18^th January 2011)
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Australasia (26^th Oct 2011) - An introduction and links to sites
Australia Steam in Australia 2011 (27^th Jul 2009)		New Zealand Operational steam in New Zealand (5^th Jan 2012) Introduction to New Zealand mainline steam (14^th May 2002)

Illustrated Features:
    Ambarawa Railway Museum
    Burma Mines Railway
    Cambodian Steam
    Hejaz Railway
    Eritrea Steam
    Fegua (Guatemala)
    A month in Java, 1976
    North Korea
    Pakistan 1992
    Romanian Forestry Steam
    Steam in Sabah 2001
    Steamy Burma Days
    Steamy Java Tour 2008 People
    Steamy Java Tour Blog 2010
    Sweet Dreams in Java (1975-1997)
    Tipong Colliery Railway 2004
    Tipong Colliery Railway 2008
    Zafra Narrow Gauge (1996-2001)

Lifestyle Statements
    Climb Every Mountain
    Going Back, Penang 2009
    Golden Land 2009, Part I
    Golden Land 2009, Part II
    Hastings, Domesday... (2010)
    House in the Country
    Luxury Irrawaddy River Cruise
    Another Luxury Irrawaddy Cruise
    Far from the Madding Crowd
    A Day in the Life
    Shibanxi Holiday 2009
    Shibanxi Holiday 2010
    Shibanxi Holiday 2011
    Moving On 2010
    New Homes 2010
    Jiaojiehe, The Final Curtain (2^nd Jun 11)
    Life in the UK 2011/12 (14^th Jan 2012)
    Penang 2012 (4^th March 2012)

It's 1 second to midnight for Real Steam all over the world. I believe the following is the short list of countries where there is traditional revenue earning steam and, in most cases, the amount is very small, usually industrial and may be even seasonal. I don't believe that the numbers run to double figures anywhere except China and Indonesia:

Asia: China (industrial/provincial railways), India (Ooty and Darjeeling, effectively tourist operations), Indonesia (seasonal industrial), North Korea (marginal, maybe already finished), Pakistan (marginal, maybe already finished)

Africa: Botswana (industrial), South Africa (industrial), Zimbabwe (industrial)

Americas: Brazil (industrial)

Europe: Bosnia (industrial), Czech Republic (industrial fireless), Germany (industrial fireless), Kosovo (industrial, but maybe now finished), Poland, Romania (industrial), Serbia (industrial), Slovenia (industrial fireless)

After 14 years, during which time this home page has been on 'steam.dial.pipex.com', it has now finally moved to 'internationalsteam.co.uk', which, with 'chinasteam.co.uk' used for mainland China, has actually had most of the content for several years. Now I will be totally free of the internet restrictions imposed on those who live in China, there seems no point in continuing to pay for a Pipex account. The old Pipex URLs and my Pipex email addresses will soon 'die'. Regular visitors should change their 'Favourites' NOW.

As for contacting me in a Pipex free world, many of you will know my gmail email address (it's on our DVD pages) and I can always be contacted via the email address below. As always, please put a meaningful phrase in the subject line, it does help on those mercifully rare occasions when real emails drop into the spam filter - I do quickly scan my spams before deletion but mistakes can and do occur.