Who can introduce jiayang small train?

Jiayang small train is a "master train" running on the narrow-gauge railway only 19.4 km north of Qianwei county, a small county in southern Sichuan. There are "living fossils of the industrial revolution" and "out-of-print landscapes of the industrial revolution", which are more precious than the national treasure panda.

The gauge of this small steam train is only 764 mm, which is nearly half less than that of the national standard train, and the whole railway line is only 19. 84 kilometers, two hours round trip. Because several towns along the railway are located in steep mountainous areas, there has been no road leading to the outside of the mountain. Since the completion of the 1959 railway, it has been the main means of transportation for villagers here for 45 years. According to statistics, so far, the passenger volume of small trains has exceeded 1, 654,380+00000.

This railway built on the mountain has 109 bends, and the difference between the highest point and the lowest point is 238. 1 meter. Its gradient and curvature are rare in the railway history of China and even the world. Since the small train followed the British inventor Watt's steam invention technology in the18th century, since the 1990s, some steam engine enthusiasts from Britain, Germany, Japan, Australia and New Zealand have visited here frequently, and some even came here six times.

Frequent visits by foreigners have also brought some inspiration to local people who turn a blind eye to small trains. Articles about small trains have also appeared in newspapers, and the little trains that were originally unknown have gained great fame. Every weekend, May Day and National Day holidays, foreign tourists visit them. Many people ask why the steam train that should have disappeared in the last century is still running today. It turns out that the property right of the small train belongs to the local Jiayang coal mine, not the railway department, and the original intention of building the railway is only to transport the coal mines in the mountains to the mountains. However, since there has never been a second way out of the mountain, at the beginning of the opening of the small train, it became a means of transportation for workers in the mining area and farmers along the railway to enter and leave the mountains. With the exhaustion of coal resources, in the late 1980s, enterprises first proposed the decision to stop running small trains.

Jiayang coal mine has opened three mines along the railway, which is the No.2 mine. With the exhaustion of local coal resources, 1 and No.2 coal mines were scrapped before 1990, and the main function of small trains as coal transportation has been basically completed. Then, can the small train involving tens of thousands of people along the railway continue to run?

Considering the tens of thousands of farmers along the railway and the workers still living in the old mining area, this state-owned enterprise has undertaken the operation work that it could not bear. The annual operation and maintenance cost of more than 3 million yuan is 15 years. At the work conference of enterprise reorganization and restructuring at the beginning of this year, the enterprise made the decision to suspend business again.

Fan Gang, the person in charge of the enterprise, told the reporter: "Money can't be spent, and considering stopping it during the restructuring can eliminate the burden of an enterprise."

Not only enterprises, but also many workers and peasants who have been on small trains for decades have the will to dismantle them.

Now there are only four small trains every day, which can no longer meet the needs of the mountain people. They need more convenient roads than small trains. According to the budget of the local transportation department, the cost of building a 20-kilometer mountain road here is about 6.5438+0.3 million yuan, and enterprises have no obligation to tear down the railway to repair the highway. Of course, quite a few villagers and old miners in enterprises do not want to see the small train leave. For them, the small train is a historical witness of their growth, and it is also their emotional sustenance.

An employee of an enterprise said, "Taking the Jiayang small train will take you through historical time and space, and modern times will return to the fifties and sixties at once."

The change of train fate has also affected many people who have been paying attention to small trains, and Luo Changan is one of them.

Luo Changan, director of the Overseas Chinese Affairs Office in Qianwei County, believes that keeping this small train means keeping a period of history, a culture and a fortune.

Since the opening of 1959, this railway has never been used as a tourist resource, but it is the most attractive scenery for domestic and foreign tourists in Qianwei County at present. Then, if it is developed and utilized as a tourism resource, where should we start?

According to Luo Changan, the natural scenery along the railway can be said to be a scenic spot, with cliffs and canyons everywhere and patches of rare plants.

The big fern on the cliff is spiny, very old, and it was the food of dinosaurs in those days. But in the ravines along the railway and around it, thousands of thoreau tree plants grow.

Luo Changan, former director of the Overseas Chinese Affairs Office in Qianwei County, said: "After the small train is preserved, it is very promising to tie up the surrounding human history and ecological environment with the small train as the main line for joint development. I think it should be no problem to attract people from big cities. "

During the few days we interviewed, we met foreign tourists who came to experience the small train every day. In Qianwei County, there are many farmers who receive foreign tourists who come here to shoot small trains. One of the farmers told the reporter: "They said that our train here is a national treasure, which is not found anywhere else. They said that if the front of the train was changed. Then they won't come. "

Geographically, Leshan City, which belongs to Qianwei County, is 55km to the north, 1 hour by car, and you can reach the world-famous Leshan Giant Buddha, and then 30km to the northwest, half an hour by car, which is Mount Emei. It has been suggested that if the small train and surrounding scenery are developed as a whole tourism project with the help of the popularity of famous mountains and great buddhas, not only the local tourism resources can be invigorated, but also the surrounding areas can be promoted. Due to the appeal of many people and the attention of the media, the enterprise has made a decision to raise the ticket price moderately, ensure the safety and develop the small train moderately.

Lu Changquan, a famous marketing expert, said: "We should learn to use its market power and operate it as a project. Then learn marketing, pay attention to its cultural history and some other connotations, and let it produce this charm. Then learn to spread, so that it will generate economic benefits through marketing work, and then it will continue its life. "

A small train that should have retired from the historical stage a long time ago has inadvertently evolved from a simple means of transportation to a tourist attraction because of its particularity endowed by history. After discovering this unique resource, local people also began to plan and develop it, which reminds me that many places are now engaged in tourism development, such as folk tourism and picking festivals. If you don't develop and use your own unique resources, blindly imitate and copy others, such a tourism market.