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Bąk—A country junction in Poland
In the early 2000s, the Polish State Railways (PKP) were quickly cutting back, and in some cases completely closing, passenger services on branch and secondary railway lines. I made a few trips to visit some of these lines in my […]
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Photo day—DMU at Bedford St Johns
A two-car DMU stands at St Johns Station in Bedford, England on 26 July 1983. It will shortly depart for the nearby town of Bletchley. Bedford St. Johns was a stub station at this time, with only one platform and […]
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Trip to Poland—30 years ago
In the summer of 1990, Poland was a country entering a new era. The communist regime had been voted out the previous September, and many changes were underway as the country left the Soviet sphere and headed towards the European […]
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Quick visit to the Czech Republic
I visited the Czech Republic several times in the early 1990s. Since then, however, work and lack of time has prevented a return visit (along with the desire to avoid crowds of tourists normally found in Prague!). With the Covid […]
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Photo day—More BR from the 80s
Last week’s post, Riding Through the Leicester Gap, presented some photos from my 1983 trip to England. Here are a few remaining photos from that roll of film, taken at a different location. Milton Keynes Central is located on the […]
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Riding through the “Leicester Gap”
I graduated from high school in 1983, and as a graduation present from my parents I received a plane ticket from the USA to the UK together with a Britrail Pass. I flew over in July of that year and […]
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Lamplighting at Czersk
Czersk is a small town located in the north of Poland in the Pomeranian Province. The town lies on the east-west “Ostbahn”, the “East Railway” which was once an important German main line from Berlin to Königsberg, now the city […]
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On the Gdańsk Narrow-Gauge Railway (GKD)—Part 2
On 23-25 September 1993, local railroad enthusiasts in the Gdańsk area held a weekend of special events. Saturday, September 24 was marked by an excursion over some of the lines of the 750mm gauge narrow gauge system based southeast of […]
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On the Gdańsk Narrow-Gauge Railway (GKD)—Part 1
On my first trip to Poland as a railfan, I was very much in the dark. There was no public internet in 1990, and information about interesting operations was almost impossible to find abroad. On 17 September 1990, while riding […]
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Photo day—TKt48 at Wolsztyn, Poland
PKP (Polish State Railways) TKt-48-143, a 2-8-2 locomotive, switches the yard in Wolsztyn, Poland on 14 September 1991. At this time, steam was still used on local freight trains serving the 4 lines out of Wolsztyn, as well as for switching […]