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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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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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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 […]