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Herbsko-Kielce Railway. 1911
Kielce 2025-03-17 Herbsko-Kielce Railway. 1911 The fact that the railway was and is the most important stimulant of economic development was already known in 1850. The railway definitely influenced the expansion of the sales market, which had been limited until then. However, the development of railway lines in the Kingdom of Poland was dependent on…
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Passenger train Jelenia Góra – Lwówek Śląski. 2010.
Jelenia Góra 2021-11-24 The passenger train Jelenia Góra – Lwówek Śląski. 2010 The Bóbr Valley Railway. In 2010, the SA135-001 PESA train served the Jelenia Góra – Lwówek Śląski route. The Bóbr Valley Landscape Park is one of the most interesting places in the Sudetes in terms of nature and landscape. It covers almost 11,000…
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Passenger train Kraków Główny – Hrubieszów. 1960 – 1970.
Hrubieszów 2021-10-29 Krakow Główny – Hrubieszów night passenger train. 1960 – 1970. Passenger cars in Poland. After the end of World War II, the Polish State Railways had about 6,500 passenger carriages. However, the number of active wagons was smaller and amounted to only 3,500 wagons. These were mainly two-axle and three-axle passenger carriages. Many…
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Papal train. 2021
Kraków 2021-05-05 St. John Paul II has in Poland not only the “Papal Helicopter”, but also the “Papal Train”. “Papal Train” is an EZT unit EN61-001, 14WE-07, built in 2006, by Newag in Nowy Sącz. The train belongs to Przewozy Regionalne, currently PolRegio. The Origin of the “Papal Train”. The idea of the “Papal Train”…
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PKP Kalisz. 2025
Kalisz 2025-03-14 Kalisz border crossing during the partitions of Poland. It is worth describing the railway border crossing between the Germanic brothers and the Muscovites, near the city of Kalisz and the city of Ostrów Wielkopolski. This crossing operated in the period 1906-1914, i.e. for a relatively short time, because the Republic of Poland regained…
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Warsaw-Kalisz Railway. 1902.
Kalisz 2025-03-12 The Warsaw-Kalisz Railway. 1902. There were two wars in the 19th century, the aftermath of which was the effect of building such and not other railway lines in Central Europe. The first war took place in the period 1853-1856, and is called the Crimean War. Its main goal was to stop the Muscovite…
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Train Wielkopolan. 1964 – 1988
Poznań 2021-10-26 The “Wielkopolanin” train in practice. 1964 – 1988 Photo description: Among other things, this EU07-001 locomotive pulled the “Wielkopolanin” train. In Poland, the first express trains were launched in 1926. After World War II, in 1947, PKP reintroduced the express train category. In timetables, these trains were marked with the letter E, and…
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Military trains in the PRL era. 2024.
Kraków 2024-01-16 Military trains in the times of the Polish People’s Republic. Already in the second half of the 19th century, it was noticed that large military units could be quickly moved by rail. For this reason, the Muscovite state blocked the development of railways in the Russian partition, specifically in the Kingdom of Poland,…
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Warsaw-Bydgoszcz Railway. 1862.
Toruń 2025-03-08 The Warsaw-Bydgoszcz Railway. 1862 The Warsaw-Bydgoszcz Railway is one of the first historical railway lines, which was built in the period 1860-1862, i.e. at the same time as the Warsaw-St. Petersburg Railway. However, the line to Bydgoszcz was built using existing sections of the Warsaw-Vienna Railway. The line was opened on December 4,…
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SZT Pesa 218M, SA133-005. 2021.
Kraków 2021-10-08 Diesel Multiple Unit SA133 Pesa 218M. Pesa 218M is a two-car standard-gauge PCS (Diesel Multiple Unit). These trains were produced in the period 2005-2015 by Zakłady Pesa in Bydgoszcz. The Pesa 218M train includes a family that received the type designations SA131, SA132, SA133 and SA134. The genesis of the Pesa 218M train.…