Kraków 2025-01-24 Passenger wagons 111AMM-20, B9nopuz. Since the 1990s, the issue of modernization of UIC-Y standard passenger cars has been considered. Initially, modernizations were performed as part of level P5 repairs. Windows were replaced, electric air heating was installed. Air conditioning systems were installed. Rotary-folding entrance doors were replaced with automatic spring-sliding doors. At the…

Kraków 2023-08-03 Passenger wagons type 141A, B10nouz. Passenger cars 141A B10nouz are Class 2 cars, which were produced in the period 1989-1992, and then modernized, from 2012. The manufacturer was the HCP factory in Poznań. About 200 were built. 68 wagons were modernized. Wagons of this type are very popular in Poland and used in…

Chabówka 2023-07-20 Passenger wagon type Bhuxz No. 05 701. Wagon No. 05 701 Bhuxz, this is a Polish wagon, which was built in 1939 at the Lilpop, Rau and Loewenstein Works in Warsaw. The wagon is a representative of a very modern series of A-VIII wagons of steel construction. Electric welding was used in the…

Chabówka 2021-07-31 Passenger wagons type Bi, No. 09 205. Passenger cars of the Bi series were a development of the passenger cars of the Ci series. The structure was built in 1928. It was still a two-axle wagon. The purpose of the construction was to increase the comfort of travel. The main thing was building…

Kraków 2021-05-25 Personal wagons – history. Personal wagons with exposed and indoor assassinations. In this article, we discuss walk-through passenger cars used by PKP (Polish State Railways), i.e. those where a corridor leads through the car, through which passengers and, above all, the train crew can move. Previous cars had a passage on external gangways,…

Chabówka 2023-07-19 Passenger cars “Boczniak”. The “Boczniak” type passenger cars owe their name to the numerous side entrances to the interior and the possibility of walking along the outer platforms along the car. The “Boczniak” wagons are basically the first group of typical railway passenger cars. Their design derives from passenger and postal vehicles, widely…

Jaworzyna Śląska 2023-08-14 Passenger and bar cars type 113A. 1972. The wagon type 113A, “Y” standard, is a passenger car with a bar compartment. It was the first catering car of Polish production after the Second World War. The wagon was commonly associated with the WARS company. The type 113A car was based on the…

Kraków 2023-08-11 Mail wagons. Photo description: Transport of a mail wagon on a platform pulled by a horse-drawn carriage. The mail car was built by the Lilpop, Rau et Company factory in Solec in Warsaw, for the Warsaw-Petersburg Railway. 1870 year. Drawing of the post office museum. Photo description: Working in a mail car in…

Kraków 2024-12-31 Passenger wagon, sleeper wagon. The history of sleeper cars is interesting, and at its core is the comfort and luxury offered to wealthy passengers. Although over time this comfort and luxury became available to the middle class, which was good for the railway. In the mid-19th century, when the railway began to gain…

Kraków 2024-12-28 Passenger wagons of UIC-Y standard. Modernization. Since the 1990s, the issue of modernizing UIC-Y standard passenger cars has been considered. Initially, modernizations were carried out as part of level P5 repairs. Windows were replaced, electric air heating was installed. Air conditioning systems were installed. Rotary-folding entrance doors were replaced with automatic spring-sliding doors.…