Kraków 2024-12-24 Passenger wagons type 112A of UIC-Y standard. Type 111A wagons are class 2 cars with 10 compartments and eight seats in each. The car was developed in 1969, but work on it had been ongoing since 1963. Type 112A cars were developed in parallel with type 111A cars. Type 112A is a class…

Kraków 2024-12-22 Passenger wagons type 111A of UIC-Y standard. The 111A type wagons are 2nd class cars with 10 compartments, each with eight seats. The car was designed in 1969, but work on it had been going on since 1963. History Initial operation of the 104A type wagons was very difficult. A large number of…

Kraków 2024-12-20 Passenger wagon, couchette type HCP 110A. The word Couchette comes from French and means; to go to sleep. Couchettes were used in Europe from around 1890. The basis was the introduction of the Orient Express train, which was a luxury train, intended more for tourism, as a good type of entertainment and spending…

Poznań 2024-12-18 Passenger wagons type 104A. The 104A type passenger car was another breakthrough in PKP. The technical documentation of the car was created in 1962. It was the first Polish car built according to the international UIC-Y standard. The car was designed for long-distance and international transport. It allowed for travel at a speed…

Kraków 2024-12-16 Passenger wagons 120A, Bwixt, Bh, Bp, B11p, „Bonanza”. The 120A, Bwixt, wagon was developed in Wrocław in the PaFaWag factory in 1972. It was used since 1973. The 120A wagon is a variant of the UIC-Y standard wagons, family type 104A, produced earlier in Poland. The wagon was developed mainly for non-electrified, local…

Chabówka 2024-12-16 Passenger wagons 43A, 101A “Ryflak”. Already in the 1950s, PKP saw the need to introduce new cars on local lines. Pre-war cars had a small capacity. There was a shortage of spare parts for them. In absolute numbers, there were many of them, but their transport potential was small. Therefore, a new passenger…

Kraków 2024-12-16 Passenger wagons type 23W. In 1939, the stupid Germans started World War II and lost a lot. During World War II, the HCP plant in Poznań was taken over by the Germanic arms concern Deutsche Waffen und Munitionsfabriken, was called DWM Posen and produced rolling stock for the needs of the Germans. On…

Kraków 2024-12-16 Polish passenger wagons. 1918-1939. After the Republic of Poland regained its independence, three factories started producing passenger cars; Hipolit Cegielski Factory in Poznań, Lilpop, Rau, Loewestain Mechanical Factory in Warsaw, Zieleniewski United Machine, Boiler and Wagon Factories in Sanok. All factories produced very modern passenger cars, not only for PKP, but also for…

Kraków 2024-12-12 Passenger wagons. The first carriages based on two four-wheeled bogies were built in 1842. That is, in the same year that the world’s first railway line was put into service. The first carriages with two bogies ran on the London-Lancashire route. The carriages were very quickly lit inside. Initially with oil, carbide or…