Warszawa 2025-02-13 Railway line No. 2 Warsaw East – Terespol. The history of the Warsaw-Terespol Railway has been described in another chapter. Here we will discuss the current significance and course of this route. LK No. 2 has a total length of 214.227 km. Individual sections were launched: Siedlce October 9, 1866, Łuków December 1,…

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…

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…

Katowice 2025-02-01 Description of the railway route No. 1. Currently, Railway Line No. 1 Warsaw West – Katowice is largely the former Warsaw – Vienna Railway Road. The length of LK No. 1 is 316.066 km. The line is double-track, electrified with 3 kV DC current, and the maximum speed is 160 km/h. The rail…

Katowice 2025-01-27 The Warsaw-Vienna Railway. By 1860, there were already 200,000 km of railway lines in the world. The Warsaw-Vienna Railway is one of the most frequently described railway lines in Poland. But in reality, these are journalistic descriptions, not to mention just any description. Only in old book publications is the Warsaw-Vienna Railway described…

Wieluń 2025-01-22 Railway line No. 181 Herby Nowe – Oleśnica. Railway line No. 181 Herby Nowe – Oleśnica is a railway line that contributed to the development of the Republic of Poland, after regaining independence after the Great World War, in 1918. Currently (2025) LK No. 181 has a length of 149.428 km. It has…

Chabówka. 2021-08-19 Retro holiday trains on the route Skansen Chabówka – Kasina Wielka. As every year, the Open-Air Museum in Chabówka organized summer trips on the Retro train. In 2021, the route to Kasina Wielka was extended. The route is approximately 25 km long. The trail runs along the picturesque valley of the Raba River.…

Rzym 2023-09-02 Italy. Suburban train Rome – Ostia. 2023. Geographic coordinates: 41.722N 12.305E. Rome is one of the most visited cities in Europe and in the world. When the Boeing B-707 aircraft was designed, one of the requirements was a non-stop flight from New York (USA) to Rome (Italy). Public transport in Rome is well…

Otłoczyn 2024-12-09 Catastrophe – Otłoczyn. The Otłoczyn train disaster was the largest train disaster in Poland, which occurred on August 19, 1980, at approximately 4:30 a.m. There was a head-on collision between two trains: a passenger train on the Toruń Główny – Łódź Kaliska route and a freight train on the Otłoczyn – Wrocki route.…

Trzebinia 2024-11-25 Railway line No. 103 Trzebinia – Skawce. The Trzebinia–Skawce railway line was launched on August 15, 1899. It was a local line, on which freight and passenger trains do not currently run. Except for the short section Okleśna–Spytkowice, opened for freight traffic (Alwernia Chemical Plant). The line was single-track, electrified, running meridionally. Initially,…