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		<title>Bieszczady Railway end of year report</title>
		<link>http://polishrail.wordpress.com/2009/11/03/bieszczady-railway-end-of-year-report/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 13:30:29 +0000</pubDate>
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The Bieszczady Railway&#8217;s LAS 0-6-0T hauling a photographer&#8217;s special in 2006.
Photo ©FBKL.
The Bieszczady Railway reports a good 2009 season. 115,000 tickets were sold to some 70,000 passengers. Currently the Bieszczady Railway operates over 30 km of a total of 70 km route miles. A three year modernization programme partly funded from the EU regional development [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=polishrail.wordpress.com&blog=3046511&post=5243&subd=polishrail&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>PKP Przewozy Regionalne faces banruptcy</title>
		<link>http://polishrail.wordpress.com/2009/11/01/pkp-przewozy-regionalne-faces-breakup-or-banruptcy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Nov 2009 01:24:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Will 300,000 passengers lose their rail services?

The PKP PR supervisory board meeting of 26 October. Photo PKP PR.
A series of dramatic developments has brought PKP Przewozy Regionalne to the verge of bankruptcy and could mean the suspension of rail transport services for over 300,000 passengers who use the company&#8217;s rail services every day.
PKP Przewozy Regionalne [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=polishrail.wordpress.com&blog=3046511&post=5226&subd=polishrail&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Polish Rail through the eye of TVN – I</title>
		<link>http://polishrail.wordpress.com/2009/10/28/polish-rail-through-the-eye-of-tvn-%e2%80%93-i/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 18:08:26 +0000</pubDate>
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Still from an investigation into the Polish railway system broadcast by the Uwaga programme on the TVN television channel in Poland last week.
(Click to view the first part of the programme.)
CAPTION
reporters: P Gadzinowski, G Kuczek
camera: S Szopinski, R Nawrocki, A. Wierzbicki
film editing: R Sobczyk, Z Bielen, M Andrychowski
VOX POP
FIRST COMMUTER:
Bearing in mind we are in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=polishrail.wordpress.com&blog=3046511&post=5209&subd=polishrail&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Polish Rail through the eye of TVN – II</title>
		<link>http://polishrail.wordpress.com/2009/10/23/polish-rail-through-the-eye-of-tvn-%e2%80%93-ii/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 23:48:04 +0000</pubDate>
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Still from TVN’s Polskie koleje cz. 2.
(Click to view.)
Pawel:
We bought train tickets in Gdansk for a journey from Gdansk to Jaroslaw and return. To Jaroslaw we took a poszpieszny (semi-fast) train to Warszawa from Gdansk. In Warszawa we changed to an ekspres (fast) train to Cracow. From Cracow we took a pospieszny train to Jaroslaw.
Sylwia:
In [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=polishrail.wordpress.com&blog=3046511&post=5203&subd=polishrail&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Polish Rail through the eye of TVN &#8211; III</title>
		<link>http://polishrail.wordpress.com/2009/10/23/polish-rail-through-the-eye-of-tvn-iii/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 19:05:13 +0000</pubDate>
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Still from TVN&#8217;s Polskie koleje cz. 3. 
(Click to view.)
Tomasz Moraczewski, Chairman PKP Przewozy Regionalne:
We are trying to persuade PKP to improve the standard of stations. Simple things are missing:
- ramps for disabled passengers
- signeage
- safety

Unfortunately these are the factors that make people choose road transport.
Caption:
75% in a bad state
40 km/h
Gregorz Kielbasinski, car commuter, somewhere [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=polishrail.wordpress.com&blog=3046511&post=5187&subd=polishrail&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Kujawy Railways 1880-1939</title>
		<link>http://polishrail.wordpress.com/2009/10/20/the-kujawy-railways-1880-1939/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2009 14:31:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Guest article by &#8216;Inżynier&#8217;
The Kujawy Narrow Gauge Railways at their zenith had some 1,500 of track of various gauges. Here in a guest article &#8216;Inżynier&#8217; tells the story of their genesis in Poland&#8217;s Prussian and Russian partitons, through their role in a post-1918 newly-independent Poland until the outbreak of WWII.

The Kujawy narrow gauge railwys just [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=polishrail.wordpress.com&blog=3046511&post=5181&subd=polishrail&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Pyskowice Skansen &#8211; Is this the end?</title>
		<link>http://polishrail.wordpress.com/2009/10/19/pyskowice-skansen-is-this-the-end/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2009 11:37:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Cash crunch and Polish laws driving railway heritage to extinction.

Shadows gather over the Pyskowice Skansen, December 2006.
From a photo ©Robert Dylewski
(Click on picture to see original on TOZK website.)
You would have thought that someone would have connected the dots by now.
In the early 1990s Poland experienced its first cash crunch as an IMF Adjustment Programme, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=polishrail.wordpress.com&blog=3046511&post=5140&subd=polishrail&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Poland&#8217;s future railway network</title>
		<link>http://polishrail.wordpress.com/2009/10/16/polands-future-railway-network/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2009 21:03:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just rub out all the grey lines.
Some links added.

 Lines already rebuilt and modernised (financed from EU funds and state budget)
Lines to be modernised (2009 &#8211; 2015)  (financed from EU funds and state budget)
Some modernisation documentation prepared  (So far no funding allocated. Unlikely all to go ahead.)
Improvements and repairs (were supposed to be financed [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=polishrail.wordpress.com&blog=3046511&post=5151&subd=polishrail&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Shunting in Smigiel</title>
		<link>http://polishrail.wordpress.com/2009/10/16/shunting-in-smigiel/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2009 09:23:01 +0000</pubDate>
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Shunting in Smigiel yard, May 2008. Photo BTWT.
Robert Hall, who wrote to the Mayor of Smigiel regarding the problems of the Smigiel Railway has received a reply. Robert has already posted this as a comment, but we thought it sufficiently important to republish it as an article.

Smigiel
09.10.2009
Dear Mr Hall,
I gratefully accept many European countries’ concern [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=polishrail.wordpress.com&blog=3046511&post=5144&subd=polishrail&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A few hours in the life of Jozef Zajkowski</title>
		<link>http://polishrail.wordpress.com/2009/10/09/a-few-hours-in-the-life-of-jozef-zajkowski/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Oct 2009 21:21:40 +0000</pubDate>
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Jozef Zajkowski after checking that nobody was injured in the white van.
Inspired by pictures of flaming buses on W-wa Jeziorki, I thought I would have a go at some Dembinski-style photo reportage.
Yesterday evening, Jozef Zajkowski, the Wojt (Chief Executive) of Sokoly Council was on his way to Sokoly station on the semi-derelict Lapy &#8211; Ostroleka [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=polishrail.wordpress.com&blog=3046511&post=5121&subd=polishrail&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Happy birthday Vladimir Vladimirowicz!</title>
		<link>http://polishrail.wordpress.com/2009/10/07/happy-birthday-vladimir-vladimirowicz/</link>
		<comments>http://polishrail.wordpress.com/2009/10/07/happy-birthday-vladimir-vladimirowicz/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2009 14:27:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dyspozytor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>

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(Click to see details of authorship and licensing.)
For generations Poles have been wary of their big neighbour, while Russia has for long regarded Poland as a dangerously unreliable and a stepping stone for other nations who have ambitions to raid its lands and national resources. However, the old East vs. West paradigm is dangerously out-of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=polishrail.wordpress.com&blog=3046511&post=5113&subd=polishrail&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Wielkpolska to go it alone?</title>
		<link>http://polishrail.wordpress.com/2009/10/06/wielkpolska-to-go-it-alone/</link>
		<comments>http://polishrail.wordpress.com/2009/10/06/wielkpolska-to-go-it-alone/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2009 13:48:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dyspozytor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[
PESA twin coach articulated railbus bought by the Wielkopolska provincial government to operate local services.

At a meeting of the Wielkopolska regional government on 28 September, councillors voted to break away from the local authority-owned local operator PKP Przewozy Regionalne and to set up their own operating company Koleje Wielkopolskie on similar lines to Koleje Mazowieckie [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=polishrail.wordpress.com&blog=3046511&post=5107&subd=polishrail&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Lxd2-241 completes a heavy overhaul</title>
		<link>http://polishrail.wordpress.com/2009/10/05/lxd2-241-completes-a-heavy-overhaul/</link>
		<comments>http://polishrail.wordpress.com/2009/10/05/lxd2-241-completes-a-heavy-overhaul/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Oct 2009 21:12:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dyspozytor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[
Lxd2-241 resplendent in a new coat of paint in the yard in Smigiel.
Photo © Geoff Jenkins.
(This picture first appeared on Pawel Cieslar&#8217;s great website Tabor Waskotorowy w Polsce (Narrow Gauge Rolling Stock in Poland. Click photo to see it in its original context on TWwP.)
During the summer Henschel-engined Lxd2-241 underwent a heavy overhaul in Smigiel. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=polishrail.wordpress.com&blog=3046511&post=5101&subd=polishrail&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Pinzgauer Lokalbahn reconstruction starts</title>
		<link>http://polishrail.wordpress.com/2009/10/05/pinzgauer-lokalbahn-reconstruction-starts/</link>
		<comments>http://polishrail.wordpress.com/2009/10/05/pinzgauer-lokalbahn-reconstruction-starts/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Oct 2009 09:04:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dyspozytor</dc:creator>
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Newly relaid section of line. Note earthworks on left.
Photo Pinzgauer Lokalbahn.
(Click photo the go to the Pinzgauer Lokalbahn website.)
The Pinzgauer Lokalbahn is a 53 km long 760mm gauge narrow-gauge railway in the Austrian province of Salzburg. The line connects Zell am Zee on the Salzburg Tiroler Bahn with the town of Krimml. Formerley part of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=polishrail.wordpress.com&blog=3046511&post=5092&subd=polishrail&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>For whom the bell tolls</title>
		<link>http://polishrail.wordpress.com/2009/10/04/for-whom-the-bell-tolls/</link>
		<comments>http://polishrail.wordpress.com/2009/10/04/for-whom-the-bell-tolls/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Oct 2009 16:06:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dyspozytor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Swanage Railway]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Blyskawica]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Henryk Rutkowski]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Swanage Pier tramway]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tadeusz Lesisz]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main. If a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friend&#8217;s or of thine own were: [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=polishrail.wordpress.com&blog=3046511&post=5071&subd=polishrail&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Smigiel, the end or a new beginning?</title>
		<link>http://polishrail.wordpress.com/2009/09/30/smigiel-the-end-or-a-new-beginning/</link>
		<comments>http://polishrail.wordpress.com/2009/09/30/smigiel-the-end-or-a-new-beginning/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2009 12:53:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dyspozytor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Smigiel Railway]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[local taxes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mayor of Smigiel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Smigiel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Smigiel Town Council]]></category>

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A Romanian-built diesel railcar awaits its passengers at Smigiel.
(Click to see a high resolution version.)
A meeting took place this morning between the senior management of SKPL and Wiktor Snela, the Mayor of Smigiel, and his senior councillors. Both teams had their legal advisers present. The meeting took place in a cordial atmosphere and both sides [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=polishrail.wordpress.com&blog=3046511&post=5064&subd=polishrail&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Cegielski &#8211; the begining of the end</title>
		<link>http://polishrail.wordpress.com/2009/09/28/ciegielski-the-begining-of-the-end/</link>
		<comments>http://polishrail.wordpress.com/2009/09/28/ciegielski-the-begining-of-the-end/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Sep 2009 14:16:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dyspozytor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Cegielski]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[HCP]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[steam locomotive works]]></category>

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Ty51-228, the last Cegielski steam locomotive built for PKP, though not quite the last Ty51 ever built in Poland. Photo ©Damian Burdka.
(Click on photo to see the rest of Damian Burka&#8217;s high quality photos taken at the Railway Museum in Warsaw, or on the next link to go to the home page of his excellent [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=polishrail.wordpress.com&blog=3046511&post=5055&subd=polishrail&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A funny thing happened on the way to York</title>
		<link>http://polishrail.wordpress.com/2009/09/25/a-funny-thing-happened-on-the-way-to-york/</link>
		<comments>http://polishrail.wordpress.com/2009/09/25/a-funny-thing-happened-on-the-way-to-york/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Sep 2009 16:07:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dyspozytor</dc:creator>
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King&#8217;s Cross Station, 2007. From a photo by David Iliff.
(Click to see original photo and for details of licensing.)
Just a brief posting, as regular readers of BTWT will no doubt guess, I am somewhat busy these days. Have you heard the story about a couple of lasses from the Railway Museum in Warsaw who were [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=polishrail.wordpress.com&blog=3046511&post=5042&subd=polishrail&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Smigiel Railway &#8211; first letter to Mayor</title>
		<link>http://polishrail.wordpress.com/2009/09/18/smigiel-railway-first-letter-to-mayor/</link>
		<comments>http://polishrail.wordpress.com/2009/09/18/smigiel-railway-first-letter-to-mayor/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Sep 2009 09:11:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dyspozytor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Smigiel Railway]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rakonowice]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Smigiel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wielichowo]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[by Robert Hall

The end of the line &#8211; Wielechowo Station. When Dyspozytor first travelled on the Smigiel Railway the track was still in place from here to Rakonowice. How long will it be before the rest of the line looks like this? Photo BTWT.
(Click picture to enlarge.)
The first of what we hope will be many [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=polishrail.wordpress.com&blog=3046511&post=5022&subd=polishrail&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Stopping train across Poland</title>
		<link>http://polishrail.wordpress.com/2009/09/17/stopping-train-across-poland/</link>
		<comments>http://polishrail.wordpress.com/2009/09/17/stopping-train-across-poland/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Sep 2009 21:27:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dyspozytor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>

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Refurbished EMU at Lodz Kaliska bound for Kutno on 15.09.2009.
Photo BTWT.
I enjoy travelling by osobowy train. I find a window seat away from the sun and watch the Polish countryside wind slowly by. People come and go. Old ladies shout into their mobile phones, young ladies smile and read their books. To travel hopefully is [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=polishrail.wordpress.com&blog=3046511&post=5008&subd=polishrail&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Smigiel Shock &#8211; SKPL will refuse new terms</title>
		<link>http://polishrail.wordpress.com/2009/09/15/smigiel-shock-skpl-will-refuse-new-licence-terms/</link>
		<comments>http://polishrail.wordpress.com/2009/09/15/smigiel-shock-skpl-will-refuse-new-licence-terms/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Sep 2009 21:43:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dyspozytor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>

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Will the Smigiel workshops become the site of a petrol station?
Photo BTWT.
(Click to enlarge.)
Yesterday (14 September) SKPL, the railway society responsible for operating the Smigiel railway, received a letter from the Smigiel Town Council proposing a change in the Society&#8217;s operating licence. Under the new terms, SKPL would become responsible for the payment of rates [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=polishrail.wordpress.com&blog=3046511&post=4997&subd=polishrail&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>52 injured on Lößnitzgrundbahn</title>
		<link>http://polishrail.wordpress.com/2009/09/13/52-injured-on-losnitzgrundbahn/</link>
		<comments>http://polishrail.wordpress.com/2009/09/13/52-injured-on-losnitzgrundbahn/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Sep 2009 19:57:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dyspozytor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Lößnitzgrundbahn]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Radebeul-Radeburg]]></category>

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The aftermath of a collision on the Radebeul-Radeburg railway on 13.09.2009. Photo ©MDR/Uwe Klost.
(Click photo to see more of Uwe Klost&#8217;s pictures of the accident on the www.mdr.de website)
52 people were injured, 4 seriously, when two trains collided on a preserved railway in Saxony in Germany on Saturday evening. An enhanced service was being operated [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=polishrail.wordpress.com&blog=3046511&post=4983&subd=polishrail&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>No trains to Zamosc</title>
		<link>http://polishrail.wordpress.com/2009/09/10/zamosc-cut-off/</link>
		<comments>http://polishrail.wordpress.com/2009/09/10/zamosc-cut-off/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Sep 2009 07:39:52 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[PKP InterCity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[line closures]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cuts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[PKP IC]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Zamosc]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[PKP IC cuts 10% of its trains

Town square Zamosc. Photo Maciej Ukleja.
(Click to see original on Wikipedia and for details of licensing.)
Starting 1st September, PKP InterCity has cut 10% of its long-distance services. Most of the slashed trains are pospieszny (semi-fast) trains which PKP IC had taken over earlier this year from PKP Przewozy Regionalne.
Many [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=polishrail.wordpress.com&blog=3046511&post=4962&subd=polishrail&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>5th Chabowka Steam Gala</title>
		<link>http://polishrail.wordpress.com/2009/09/08/5th-chabowka-steam-gala/</link>
		<comments>http://polishrail.wordpress.com/2009/09/08/5th-chabowka-steam-gala/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Sep 2009 09:44:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dyspozytor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Chabowka]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[PKP Cargo]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Parowozjazda]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[ V Parowozjazda, 4 &#8211; 5 September

Pt47-65. Photo ©Robert Dylewski

Ol12-7. Photo ©Robert Dylewski

Ty2-953. Photo ©Robert Dylewski
More of Robert Dylewski&#8217;s photos of this year&#8217;s Chabowka Gala can be seen on the Fundacja Era Parowozow website.
Posted in Chabowka, PKP Cargo Tagged: Chabowka, Parowozjazda      <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=polishrail.wordpress.com&blog=3046511&post=4970&subd=polishrail&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Tornado helps recreate rescue train</title>
		<link>http://polishrail.wordpress.com/2009/09/04/tornado-helps-recreate-rescue-trains/</link>
		<comments>http://polishrail.wordpress.com/2009/09/04/tornado-helps-recreate-rescue-trains/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2009 14:39:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dyspozytor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Winton train]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[A1 pacific]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nicholas Winton]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tornado]]></category>

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Sir Nicholas Winton in 1939 with one of the children he rescued.
Photo Winton Train.
From the Toronto Sun.
In December 1938, 29-year-old London stockbroker Nicholas Winton was preparing to take a skiing vacation with a friend in Switzerland. But that friend — who worked in the British Embassy in Prague — insisted Winton come to Czechoslovakia instead [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=polishrail.wordpress.com&blog=3046511&post=4953&subd=polishrail&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>SKPL take over Czempin &#8211; Srem freight</title>
		<link>http://polishrail.wordpress.com/2009/09/02/skpl-take-over-czempin-srem-freight/</link>
		<comments>http://polishrail.wordpress.com/2009/09/02/skpl-take-over-czempin-srem-freight/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Sep 2009 14:19:08 +0000</pubDate>
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September 1, 10:00 hrs. SLPL runs onto PKP PLK tracks to collect its train. Photo SKPL.


The inaugural train arrives at Srem. Photo SKPL.
On 1st September, the inaugural run took place of the first SKPL operated Czempin &#8211; Srem freight service. SKPL are interested in developing the service and are looking for ideas to make the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=polishrail.wordpress.com&blog=3046511&post=4943&subd=polishrail&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>On this day&#8230; 70 years ago</title>
		<link>http://polishrail.wordpress.com/2009/09/01/on-this-day-70-years-ago/</link>
		<comments>http://polishrail.wordpress.com/2009/09/01/on-this-day-70-years-ago/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2009 16:25:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dyspozytor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Gdansk]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[WW II]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Danzig]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Westerplatte]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[World War 2]]></category>

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German cadet spotting the fall of the shells aimed at the Polish navy depot at Westerplatte, from the German Navy&#8217;s training ship SMS Schleswig-Holstein.
(Click to see German newsreel clip, via You Tube.)
At the end of August 1939, a German Navy training ship, the WW I battleship SMS Schleswig-Holstein, sailed to Gdansk, under the pretext of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=polishrail.wordpress.com&blog=3046511&post=4935&subd=polishrail&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>No man&#8217;s land</title>
		<link>http://polishrail.wordpress.com/2009/08/31/no-mans-land/</link>
		<comments>http://polishrail.wordpress.com/2009/08/31/no-mans-land/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Aug 2009 17:49:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dyspozytor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Railway Museum in Warsaw]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Warsaw]]></category>

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This armoured train, intended to keep Soviet VIPs safe during WWII, is now retired in the Railawy Museum in Warsaw. But for how much longer is the Museum itself safe?
Photo © Jerzy Dabrowski, ONS picture agency.
The Railway Museum in Warsaw moves into unfamiliar territory tomorrow. The Museum remains open, but the licence agreement under which [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=polishrail.wordpress.com&blog=3046511&post=4930&subd=polishrail&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Crony capitalism</title>
		<link>http://polishrail.wordpress.com/2009/08/30/crony-capitalism/</link>
		<comments>http://polishrail.wordpress.com/2009/08/30/crony-capitalism/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Aug 2009 20:25:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dyspozytor</dc:creator>
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Overhead catenary worth millions is stolen, trains and road traffic is delayed for hours, but no one will be prosecuted.
Photo © Adrian Wozniak.
(The photo comes from a post on Adrian Wozniak&#8217;s blog blozek. Click to see it in its original context.)
About a year ago, during refurbishment works on the railway line through the centre of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=polishrail.wordpress.com&blog=3046511&post=4909&subd=polishrail&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Three engines in steam at Wolsztyn</title>
		<link>http://polishrail.wordpress.com/2009/08/27/three-engines-in-steam-at-wolsztyn/</link>
		<comments>http://polishrail.wordpress.com/2009/08/27/three-engines-in-steam-at-wolsztyn/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2009 11:30:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dyspozytor</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Ol49-59]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ol49-7]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pt47-65]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Swajcaria Czarnkowska]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wolsztyn-Poznan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wolsztyn-Worclaw]]></category>

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Two locos at Wolsztyn, September 2008. Photo Peter Southey.
Unusually there will be three engines in steam at Wolsztyn this Friday. Pt47-65 is being readied to haul Saturday&#8217;s Wolsztyn Experience sponsored steam working to and from Wroclaw. Ol49-59 will be in light steam getting ready for Sunday&#8217;s Grodziska Kolej Drezynowa special to Szwajcaria Czarnkowska. Ol49-7 is [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=polishrail.wordpress.com&blog=3046511&post=4912&subd=polishrail&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Polish engineering quality</title>
		<link>http://polishrail.wordpress.com/2009/08/25/polish-engineering-quality/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2009 07:44:14 +0000</pubDate>
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Another narrowboat nearing completion, 1000 miles from Braunston!
Apologies for our non-appearance yesterday. The campaign to save the Railway Museum in Warsaw is still absorbing a huge amount of resources. You may ask, &#8216;what campaign?&#8217; as we have not yet published names and addresses to whom letters should be sent. This is not an oversight, but [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=polishrail.wordpress.com&blog=3046511&post=4898&subd=polishrail&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>500 posts milestone</title>
		<link>http://polishrail.wordpress.com/2009/08/23/another-milestone/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Aug 2009 18:05:52 +0000</pubDate>
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Farewell Tooum!
Monday, 3 March 2008

Faithful readers of Behind the Watertower trying to access the blog have been wondering about the strange error message that has been displayed during the last couple days. Has Dyspozytor been finally disposed off by the dark forces which rule the Polish rail world? Well this time, at least, the answer is [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=polishrail.wordpress.com&blog=3046511&post=4887&subd=polishrail&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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