It's downhill almost all the way from Zhuangmei to the CR interchange so departures tended to be anaemic. A few gentle puffs followed by a slow trundle out of the yard was usually as good as it got.
Fortunately some of the shunts were more photogenic. SY 1017 dragged a string of loaded coal wagons out of the washery on the morning of 11 December 2010.