SM42 Posted March 12 Author Share Posted March 12 (edited) The classic Wolsztyn view on the morning of my Leszno trip And a very well turned out Tkt48 143 ( interesting patch in the tank side) I am endeavouring to reinstate the lost images as and when I find the originals Andy Edited March 12 by SM42 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SM42 Posted March 12 Author Share Posted March 12 7th April 2023 saw me get a day pass from Mrs SM42, so I headed to Krzyz ( among other places) to see what was about and found Ol49 82 plinthed at the platform end Andy 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold adb968008 Posted March 12 RMweb Gold Share Posted March 12 (edited) 1 hour ago, SM42 said: The classic Wolsztyn view on the morning of my Leszno trip Sadly I remember the days when most of that lot was parked there in steam. I was in Lodz a few weeks ago, but illness prevented me going to Poznan for a couple of days and ended up staring at the walls of the warsaw marriott instead ! Didnt realize that Warszaw Glowna had reopened for business, railway musueum relegated to the sides somewhat. Its impressive the huge modernisation of Polands railway infrastructure and stations, Chabowka now has a triangle, new station (Stadiom) and the entire line to Zakopane has been relayed, new masts, new signals and new platforms throughout… its shaved 90 mins off the Krakow to Zakopane schedule by eliminating the run rounds at Plaszow, sucha beskidzka (also triangle / new station zamek) and Chabowka to give a through run. Edited March 12 by adb968008 2 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SM42 Posted March 12 Author Share Posted March 12 8 minutes ago, adb968008 said: Sadly I remember the days when most of that lot was parked there in steam. I was in Lodz a few weeks ago, but illness prevented me going to Poznan for a couple of days and ended up staring at the walls of the warsaw marriott instead ! Didnt realize that Warszaw Glowna had reopened for business, railway musueum relegated to the sides somewhat. Its impressive the huge modernisation of Polands railway infrastructure and stations, Chabowka now has a triangle, new station (Stadiom) and the entire line to Zakopane has been relayed, new masts, new signals and new platforms throughout… its shaved 90 mins off the Krakow to Zakopane schedule by eliminating the run rounds at Plaszow, sucha beskidzka (also triangle / new station zamek) and Chabowka to give a through run. There's a contract just signed for the construction of a new 2.4 mile tunnel between Krakow and Nowy Sacz along with other works en route to Chabowka which will reduce Krakow to Zakopane to around 90 minutes by 2029 and Krakow to Nowy Sacz from 3 to 1 hour. Exciting times Andy 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold adb968008 Posted March 12 RMweb Gold Share Posted March 12 (edited) 43 minutes ago, SM42 said: There's a contract just signed for the construction of a new 2.4 mile tunnel between Krakow and Nowy Sacz along with other works en route to Chabowka which will reduce Krakow to Zakopane to around 90 minutes by 2029 and Krakow to Nowy Sacz from 3 to 1 hour. Exciting times Andy Chabowka station is now just a shadow… only the locals stop there. Even the line to Nowy Sacz has been ripped up. Buses to Rabka Zdroj for now. its a 90 min drive to Zakopane now, so rail is playing catch up still. But the stock is now new… not many EN57’s on this route now, and not many EU/EP 07/08’s either. I also went past skierniewice last week but thats looking like a derelict abandoned site… stuff is scattered around there but nothing looks restored or presentable. Chabowkas steam operation is to Osliec this year instead. Edited March 12 by adb968008 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Nick C Posted March 13 RMweb Gold Share Posted March 13 15 hours ago, adb968008 said: Chabowka station is now just a shadow… only the locals stop there. Even the line to Nowy Sacz has been ripped up. Buses to Rabka Zdroj for now. its a 90 min drive to Zakopane now, so rail is playing catch up still. But the stock is now new… not many EN57’s on this route now, and not many EU/EP 07/08’s either. I also went past skierniewice last week but thats looking like a derelict abandoned site… stuff is scattered around there but nothing looks restored or presentable. Chabowkas steam operation is to Osliec this year instead. Shame the EN57's have gone, I rather like them! I suspect the general public don't though! The last time we went there, the whole line was shut for the aforementioned relaying, and we ended up on a minibus all the way from Krakow to Sucha Beskidska... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold adb968008 Posted March 13 RMweb Gold Share Posted March 13 (edited) 8 hours ago, Nick C said: Shame the EN57's have gone, I rather like them! I suspect the general public don't though! The last time we went there, the whole line was shut for the aforementioned relaying, and we ended up on a minibus all the way from Krakow to Sucha Beskidska... I think the “new” suburban units are a mix of new build and refurb’s. The intercity Stadler EMUs are actually very nice, and come with Wars catering car…. Beer in a glass, Breaded pork cutlet with pierogi… lovely. been skiing out in Chabowka and tatras (snow is snow, beer is beer, but prices in Poland are 1/10th of Frances slopes), every year and have a photo/video record of the places for nigh on two decades. 2022.. EP08-1051 here was the loco that was once painted in BR Electric blue with lion and wheel logos…, seen at Chabowka Stadler unit at Skomielna biala 2024.. Brand new Chabowka Stadion station.. Some EN57’s are about, running locals from Zakopane to Chabowka Warsaw intercity service just take your own tea bags… Edited March 13 by adb968008 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SM42 Posted March 13 Author Share Posted March 13 10th August last year sas a quick visit to Chojnice. Amongst all the stored EN57s was this rather forlorn and unidentified loco Andy 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold adb968008 Posted March 13 RMweb Gold Share Posted March 13 This was at Chojnice in 2008.. proper diesel shed was Chojnice back inn2008.. was like Barnetby in the 90’s. Stuff every minute. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold adb968008 Posted March 14 RMweb Gold Share Posted March 14 (edited) On 12/03/2024 at 17:58, SM42 said: There's a contract just signed for the construction of a new 2.4 mile tunnel between Krakow and Nowy Sacz along with other works en route to Chabowka which will reduce Krakow to Zakopane to around 90 minutes by 2029 and Krakow to Nowy Sacz from 3 to 1 hour. Exciting times Andy Just read about this tunnel here.. https://krakow.tvp.pl/76340601/na-linii-limanowa-nowy-sacz-powstanie-najdluzszy-tunel-kolejowy-w-polsce-o-dlugosci-38-km#:~:text=Na kolejowym odcinku Limanowa – Nowy,czwartego odcinka linii nr 104. ive a funny story about Limanova, back in 2007 Chabowka did a big steam event here. It was basically a Rainhill style procession of loco hauled trains, which ran up the branch tender first, detached / split and coupled to the rear of the train ahead of it, then each loco lead front first back down the branch with its train… There was about a dozen locos involved in this. heres the set up run.. I found a nice field, and got views like this… but occasionally other photographers would just walk into the field close to the track. Now this German guy close by came prepared.. first shouting, then produced a Duck Quacking air horn that got everyones attention… So far so good, but after a while the photographers ignored him, at which point he produced and fired off a shot gun! At which everyone packed up and took off ! I found a new camp here.. Standing on a tree trunk, that suddenly moved and a massive snake came out and went off into the fields !! So I decided at that to be less at one with nature… There was participation from Slovakia and Germany.. As each train returned back down to Chabowka, the station announcer announced it on the tannoy as a normal service arriving… giving scenes like this… (slovaks brought their own beer wagon) and of course freight went to the yard… Whilst ive done Wolsztyn many times, I found Chabowka much more atmospheric. Of course one is a museum, the other is a commercial steam operation. All of this scene is now gone beyond recognition… The line is to be fully electrified and has been totally ripped up to be regraded and relayed…. This is Chabowka in 2023, taken from the same point as where the CSD pair were… This is Rabka Zdroj last month.. And look back to the opposite side of the curve where the BR03 was… and beyond towards Limanowa Theres been a huge amount of residential building along this route in the last decade, as Zakopane has insane property prices but the desire for a mountain holiday home hasnt waned, its spread more into the valleys. Future trackwork has this interesting style of sleepers… and of course the new electrics… Edited March 14 by adb968008 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SM42 Posted March 14 Author Share Posted March 14 (edited) Last summer we found ourselves near Katowice for a friend's birthday celebrations. Being at a loose end on the Saturday afternoon a quick look at the rail atlas revealed a narrow gauge railway seemingly not far away in Rudy. A quick call revealed we were just half an hour away and despite it being 3 o'clock we still had time to catch a train. A quick look round the yard found a rather well turned out Los49 3343 being worked on Meanwhile this unidentified loco looked to be in need of some TLC There were numerous other unidentifiable diesel locos languishing about the yard too. Our motive power for the afternoon was Ws180 36 Andy Edited March 15 by SM42 To add location Doh! 3 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Mallard60022 Posted March 14 RMweb Premium Share Posted March 14 On 12/03/2024 at 17:37, adb968008 said: Sadly I remember the days when most of that lot was parked there in steam. I was in Lodz a few weeks ago, but illness prevented me going to Poznan for a couple of days and ended up staring at the walls of the warsaw marriott instead ! Didnt realize that Warszaw Glowna had reopened for business, railway musueum relegated to the sides somewhat. Its impressive the huge modernisation of Polands railway infrastructure and stations, Chabowka now has a triangle, new station (Stadiom) and the entire line to Zakopane has been relayed, new masts, new signals and new platforms throughout… its shaved 90 mins off the Krakow to Zakopane schedule by eliminating the run rounds at Plaszow, sucha beskidzka (also triangle / new station zamek) and Chabowka to give a through run. The upgrades and modernisation is huge isn't it. I've watched Warsaw West in awe and Wolsztyn has had a fantastic upgrade. Pity it has now only got the Pt47 and the OL (69) is over a year late in returning...if it ever does now? It's great that you can show us many of the wonderful things that are still going on over in an EU Country that is taking full advantage of its railways. Thanks so much Phil Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold adb968008 Posted March 14 RMweb Gold Share Posted March 14 (edited) Heres a couple from a railtrip in 2006… In 2006 Rybnik celebrated 150 years of railways, with a shed openday and 3 in bound steam railtours, including this one from Katowice. it arrived as 2 coaches inc the postal coach, but it quickly became clear the crowd was way inexcess of capacity.., by magnitudes. It was a pay on the day trip and cost less than a fiver ! The train was delayed whilst they found two double deck coaches… we still left as the single most crowded railtour ive ever travelled on… yet enroute we still stopped to pick up more… At Rybnik we were held to do a paralell arrival with the second inbound tour… Of course this made disembarking pure comedy gold… and then number 3 arrived on display was a variety of operational and preserved locos… The next day we headed to overnight to Warsaw (note Russian sleeper ) and onto Bialystok.. whilst there, we did a depot visit, the shed master giving us a driver and a guided tour on an EU07… heres the interior cubicle, whilst the EU07s were built under licence, some parts were UK sourced… those cubicle lights are identical EE cubicle lights including the moulding patterns ! And later the driver took us back to the station on ET22-951, which was our train loco back to Warsaw, seen prepping the loco in the right… Sadly on our way back the driver was involved in a fatal collision with a farm lorry, the farm driver losing his life. we were held 3 hours for formalities before being detrained and taking a mile walk to the next station, a local station called, Szepietowo, some opting for horse and cart ride from locals who turned up to help. At the time of the collision we were properly motoring, into 80-100 mph range, we heard the driver consistently sounding his horn and then a full brake application, I was thrown from my seat into the person in front, I saw others fly down the corridor, as you can see, we stopped some distance from the crossing on what was a straight down hill stretch to the crossing. oddly, the driver was replaced, the train to continued to the next station, then picked us all up and we all reboarded back to warsaw.. (Our train is easy to spot in the distance, now only having 2 lights). The station itself being a local wasnt used to the platforms being full, it felt a surreal scene from The Great Escape, Most of the passengers where chatty obviously talking about what happened and many of us recognising each other, yet all strangers. Edited March 14 by adb968008 1 1 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Mallard60022 Posted March 14 RMweb Premium Share Posted March 14 8 minutes ago, adb968008 said: Heres a couple from a railtrip in 2006… In 2006 Rybnik celebrated 150 years of railways, with a shed openday and 3 in bound steam railtours, including this one from Krakow. it arrived as 2 coaches inc the postal coach, but it quickly became clear the crowd was way inexcess of capacity.., by magnitudes. It was a pay on the day trip and cost less than a fiver ! The train was delayed whilst they found two double deck coaches… we still left as the single most crowded railtour ive ever travelled on… yet enroute we still stopped to pick up more… At Rybnik we were held to do a paralell arrival with the second inbound tour… Of course this made disembarking pure comedy gold… and then number 3 arrived on display was a variety of operational and preserved locos… The next day we headed to overnight to Warsaw (note Russian sleeper ) and onto Bialystok.. whilst there, we did a depot visit, the shed master giving us a driver and a guided tour on an EU07… And later took us back to the station on ET22-951, which was our train loco back to Warsaw. Sadly on our way back the driver was involved in a fatal collision with a farm lorry, the farm driver losing his life. we were held 3 hours for formalities before being detrained and taking a mile walk to the next station, some opting for horse and cart ride. At the time of the collision we were properly motoring, into 80-100 mph range, we heard the driver consistently sounding his horn and then a full brake application, I was thrown from my seat into the person in front, I saw others fly down the corridor, as you can see, we stopped some distance from the crossing on what was a straight down hill stretch to the crossing. oddly, the driver was replaced, the train to continued to the next station, then picked us all up and we all reboarded back to warsaw.. In 2003 and 4 when I was on the Driving Experiences at Wolsztyn, the crossing gamblers in the Countryside were horrendous and the Crews knew that worst places so always very alert. I rather enjoyed the Whistling (and Horn Blowing on the Pt47s). Amazing how they deal with it and then off they go as you have shown. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SM42 Posted March 14 Author Share Posted March 14 One more from last August A plinted Ty2 at Kedzierzyn Kozle ( you need special teeth to say that) Nearby was the railway goat Andy 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SM42 Posted March 27 Author Share Posted March 27 We are currently in Poland and I've been out on my travels today. Just a couple of narrow gauge steam locos First up, plinthed at Pleszew Miasto No identification to be found, but I think it might be Px48 1912. Another 0-8-0 was found at Zbiersk on the Kaliska Kolej Dojazdowa. Again no obvious ID, but it could be Px48 1726. Andy 5 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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