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Warsaw-Terespol Railway. 1867.
Warszawa 2025-02-11 Warsaw-Terespol Railway. The Warsaw-Terespol Railway (in Russian Варшавско-Тереспольская железная дорога) was established in the period 1865-1867, thanks to the initiative of the Warsaw entrepreneur and banker, Leopold Kronenberg (1812-1878). These were difficult times, just after the fall of the January Uprising. It was – after the Warsaw-Vienna Railway and the Warsaw-St. Petersburg Railway…
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Diesel Locomotive ST44-001. 2025.
Kraków 2025-02-08 Diesel Locomotives ST44, M62. ŁTZ M62 (ST44) is a Soviet diesel locomotive that was produced by Luhansk Teplowozostroitelny Zawody in Luhansk for the CCCP and other socialist countries of the Council for Mutual Economic Assistance and North Korea. The locomotive is popularly called “Gagarin” or “Ivan”. The M62 (ST44) locomotives were produced in…
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Diesel Locomotive SM25-002. 2025
Warszawa 2025-02-08 Diesel Locomotive SM25-002. The SM25-002 diesel locomotive was manufactured in 1962 at the Fablok company in Chrzanów. The locomotive received the factory number Ls350-5427-1962. On December 7, 1962, it was accepted for service at MD Kraków. Since 1971, it was subordinate to MD Kraków Płaszów. In 1972, it underwent a revision repair at…
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Steam Locomotive Tr6-39. 2025
Warszawa 2025-02-07 Steam Locomotive Tr6-39. Steam locomotive type Tr6 is a steam locomotive of Prussian origin, known as type G8², series designation DRG 5620-29. Locomotives of this type were built in the period 1919-1926. Production was located in factories; Henschel & Sohn (Cassel), A. Jung (Jungenthal), Linke Hofmann (Breslau), F, Krupp (Essen) and AEG (Berlin).…
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Diesel Locomotive SM15-17. 2025
Warszawa 2025-02-07 Diesel Locomotive SM15-17. In 1963, two TGM3 shunting diesel locomotives with hydraulic transmission were purchased in the Moscow State (then CCCP). In the Moscow State (CCCP) by 1975, 3,477 TGM3 family locomotives were built, with hydromechanical and hydraulic transmissions. The contract also included the purchase of a Soviet license to start production in…
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Salon wagon AShx 01. 2025
Warszawa 2025-02-06 Salon wagon AShx 01. During the Second Polish Republic, railway technology in our country was at a high level. There were several factories in Poland that built rolling stock; locomotives, motor cars, freight cars, passenger cars, sleeper cars and restaurant cars. The International (French) Sleeping Car Company (CIWL) ordered 6 restaurant cars from…
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Saloon wagon type Ashx 07. 2023
Chabówka 2023-08-06 Saloon wagon type Ashx 07. Saloon car Ashx 07. 1958. PaFaWag Wroclaw factory. The Ashx 07 type lounge car is in the collection of the railway museum in Chabowka. The wagon was produced in the PaFaWag factory in Wrocław in 1958. Saloon cars are classified as special purpose cars. In Poland, they were…
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HCP railcar type SBx. 2021
Chabówka 2021-05-19 Motor wagons in the interwar period. Before World War II, railcars were called motor cars. Railway motor wagons have a long history, also in Poland. Shortly after Poland regained independence, the possibility of introducing motor wagons on specific lines was seriously considered. Mainly on routes with low passenger traffic, as well as on…
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HCP motor car of the SN80 series. 2023
Jaworzyna Śląska 2023-01-07 HCP motor car of the SN80 series. The SN80 motor car was developed in Poznań at CBKPTK, and produced in the HCP factory and received the designation HCP5M (Hipolit Cegielski Poznań construction 5 M-motor). The designation SN80 was given to PKP. In the mid-1950s, it was decided that motor carriages would be…
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PKP InterCity Train “Wyspiański” 6300 Wrocław-Przemyśl. 2025
Kraków 2025-02-05 Long-distance railway in Poland. In the recent period, PKP InterCity launched an average of 420 long-distance trains per day, while in the holiday season there were 454 long-distance trains. In the holiday season of 2024, PKP InterCity increased the number of connections by as many as 31 pairs of trains more than in…