we
saw a lot of posters with a Soviet and a Polish astronaut
Ok22-10 with passenger train 7845 to Stargard,
photographed in Ziemomysl on the way from Szczecin to
Choszczno
we heard the whistle of Ok22-3 with train 11316 from
Mysliborz
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July 04, 1978 We had a good trip to Berlin, in our sleeper of
the Hoek-Warszawa express. There we changed to a fast
train to Szczecin. The check at the Polish border passed
smoothly: 'Holland OK'. Szczecin didn't change much since
1976. This time we saw a lot of posters with a Soviet and
a Polish astronaut, with big flags behind. Our bicycles
were sent earlier to Szczecin Glowny, they arrived
without any damage.
We changed to a slow double-deck train
(made in East Germany) to Choszczno. There we would meet
our Polish friend Pawel. In 1976 I took a picture of him,
being a fireman on Ok22-77 (Nana) in Krzyz. He gave his
adress for some pictures. We stayed in contact - despite
of language problems. Now we were invited at the farm of
his father. But with only a short encounter during an
illegal photosession, it would be difficult to recognize
him again. Pawel appeared to be inventive: he figured out
the connection to our train from Berlin and looked for
people with a capitalistic face... As he found two, he
showed them an envelope with my adress... Bingo! Because
the train was overcrowded, he invited us to the empty
driverscabin at the rear. The 'conversation' ended in
reading and pointing words in two little dictionaries
Polsko-Holenderskich v.v. We made clear that we liked to
photograph a steamloco, if possible at the lineside. No
problem, the railwayline Choszczno-Glazow (364a) was not
far away of Pawels farmhouse. So after the arrival and
the warm welcome we disappeared to see one of the few
trains on this line. We took our bicycles, guided by
Pawel on his motorcycle. After a few minutes we heard the
whistle of Ok22-3 with train 11316 from Mysliborz and
made a fine picture with a bad track full of weeds. Our
guide asked not to leave yet... The surprise was a Ty42
with a freight train from the opposite direction.
Back at the farm in Choszczno we were
transfered to a totally different world. Not only
compared to the countrylife in Holland, but especially to
the hospitality. The dinner, with Pawels family and some
friends, was VERY special. Only the patatosoup at the
start would be enough for two days! But then followed the
chicken, other meat, potatos, tomatos, strawberries in
syrup, coffee, wodka, more wodka... At home my mother
used to say 'don't let any food on your plate', so I
tried hard to show the results of my parents' education.
'Dosyc' (enough)!, we said again and again, when all the
food on the plate was gone. Afterwards we learned that an
empty plate ment you didn't get enough...
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spy-work yet in Szczecin - Pt47-34
Ok22-77 'Nana' in Krzyz /July 22, 1976/
another spy-work - Ty42-122 shunting in Choszczno
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a better view was the shunter Tr203-296
unknown in Holland was the combination of a passenger
coach and some open freight wagons, train 44159 from
Zieleniec pulled by Ty2-897
in
Glazow, Pt47-103 passed us with train 87921 from Stargard
to Kostrzyn
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July 05, 1978 The cock waked us - very early indeed. Because
of the poor service on line 364a, we took the early bus
to Gorzow Wielkopolski (mainline 345 Kostrzyn-Krzyz, part
of the 'Ostbahn'). Pawel expected a lot of steamlocos
there. And he was right: Ok1, Tr203 and Ty2 made a fine
show. Pawel asked for permission to take pics, because we
didn't have a permit from Warszawa yet... The uniform
gave us 'ten minutes'.
On the platform we were surprised by
one of the parcels: a dead young stag on a barrow. A
better view was the shunter Tr203-296. The driver of
Ok1-37, waiting for train 44130 to Zbaszyn, appeared to
be very shy: as we tried to take a photograph of the
cabin, he hided himself. Unknown in Holland was the
combination of a passenger coach and some open freight
wagons, train 44159 from Zieleniec pulled by Ty2-897. We
travelled back via line 344 to Mysliborz and changed
there to train 11316 with Ok22-10 to Choszczno. Pawel
tried hard to fulfill all the wishes of his Dutch guests.
So the next surprise was the invitation to join the crew
of our loco TKt48-187 at a little station, not far from
Gorzow (in Wysoka Gorzowska). There was not a big risk of
being catched because the train, 11513, was almost empty.
Near the signalboxes and stationmasters we could duck
away in the spacy cabin of the tenderloco. The speed was
terrible low because the state of the track was terrible.
The spectators of the film I made on this trip have
always been warned that they may become seasick... In
Glazow Pt47-173 passed us with train 87921 from Stargard
to Kostrzyn.
In our coach in the train to Choszczno
we got a lot of attention of the guard. Pawel laughed and
told us everybody knew he was at the secret service. He
didn't seem to be afraid at all, so we weren't either. At
the station in our temporary hometown we counted no less
than 7 steamlocos, two of them busy with worktrains for
the electrification of line 360. Pawel organized a
sightseeing by feet through the town. We saw a lot of
scars from WW II. J. paid everything, even our 30
postcards. No discussion. Who in Holland would be so mad,
sorry - so hospitable?? In the evening history repeated
itself on a lower level, which saved our stomach. A
neighbour asked to have a look at one of his animals. It
appeared to be a mammoth-pig, the biggest we ever saw,
which made the farmer a first-prize winner. The proud on
his face was very moving. We were really impressed...
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the driver of Ok1-37 waiting for train 44130 to
Zbaszynek appeared to be very shyinvitation
to join the crew of our loco TKt48-187
Pawel
organized a sightseeing by feet through the town of
Choszczno
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a morning in a farm
Ty2-831 with 'steifrahmentender' in Naklo nad Notecia
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July 06, 1978 Pawel proposed to join us on our trip to Naklo
n. Notecia. There were two reasons for this destination:
the narrow-gauge and our photopermit from the
railwaymuseum in Warszawa. A few days before departure, I
got a telegram in which we were asked to get our permit
at the station of Naklo. Our luggage was made heavier
with a lot of gifts, as gooseberries, tomatos and bottles
of 'spirytus' (spirits, 95%...).
From Kalisz Pomorski to Pila (line 365)
a Pt47 was at the head of our train. A diesel drove us to
Naklo. The fear that something went wrong with our
photopermit seemed to be right as we asked a PKP-employee
at the platform. 'I do know nothing about it', he said,
but made no objections when we wanted to photograph the
departure of a freight with Ty43-4, at 16:55 to the west.
Then the real stationmaster appeared: mister Kindermann,
a very friendly person who loved the bigger type of
cigars. Pawel explained to him what we did so far and
what we would like to see in Naklo, if possible with the
promised paper form Warszawa... Then he took something
out of his desk, something with the wellknown emblem of
the museum. Relief!
A lot of talking - Kindermann spoke a
little bit of German - made clear that a brother from
Australia was visiting him. And he found out a difference
between our two countries after consuming wodka: Dutch
people don't drink much... And he advised us against
drinking beer, 'because it's not healthy'. When he asked
us if we had a place to sleep yet - no - he offered the
dormitory for the staff of PKP in the station building of
Naklo. We kindly accepted, the window would be a nice
position for photos in the morning. Pawel travelled home
via Krzyz after a very warm farewell.
Then we decided to have a look at the
narrow-gauge, 600 mm, at the other side of the station. A
lot of freightwaggons and a Romania-build diesel (Lyd2-56
after train 5458) surrounded the modern stationbuilding.
This stationmaster 'didn't have anything to do with the
stationmaster of the normal gauge' - and our permit - but
he was a good guy. He proposed to have a ride with the
morning freighttrain to Kasprowo the next day with the
last running steamloco. Who could reject such an offer??
As service in return he asked to send a Dutch
cigaret-lighter. Chiefs in Naklo seemed to have a special
relationship to tabaco...
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yet without permission - Ty43-4 in Naklo...
...and the departure of a freight with Ty43-4 at
16.55 to the west
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early in the morning the whistling remembered us that
we spent the night in a station building (Ty2-14)
gooses risking their lives while crossing the tracks
in front of our train
back
in Kasprowo, it was lunchtime
yet some spy-work, Ol49-70 with passenger train in
Znin
a gas station with 'CPN' (in Holland the communist
party)
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July 07, 1978 Early in the morning the whistling remembered us
that we spent the night in a stationbuilding. With the
sun shining, we had a nice look at Ol49-36 with the
impressive 7:41 morning train from Pila. The
stationmaster of the normal gauge helped us with finding
out the inteneraries of the buses, because the original
plan was to go to Znin and the narrow-gauge museum in
Wenecja. The bus would depart at 11:50, probably
impossible to catch. Of course we prefered to take the
freight to the countryside north of Naklo.
The stationmaster was there again, a
nice welcome with photographs - we weren't the first
railwayfriends here! - and some stories about the special
interest in Switzerland for his railway. After a lot of
shunting we could board the guard-wagon at the rare of
train: 7 open wagons, loaded with fertilizer, pulled by
Tx6-503. Filming was nearly impossible because of the
heavy shaking, but we tried near the crossing with the
normal gauge of line 424 Naklo-Chojnice, with 'German'
semaphores at every corner. It was a wonderful trip. We
aimed our cameras to stoks, gooses risking their lifes
while crossing the track in front of our train, an
airplane spraying poison, horses and so on. At the
junction of Kasprowo we had to shunt again. We were asked
to go further to Wierzchucin. Real countrylife there,
nice pictures with a horse-drawn cart, the church and a
little disused frame of a turntable. Back in Kasprowo it
was lunchtime, the crew asked us to join them in the
'restaurant': the foot-boards and cabin of the steamloco.
Of course the special request fot a COLOUR photo was no
problem at all. Don't know if the pics ever reached
them...
In Naklo we discussed an option to use
our bicycles to go to Szubin and there to take a train on
line 392 to Znin. The weather was still very fine, so we
said yes to ourselves. In Szubin we got permission to
take a pic of Ty43-115 and Ol49-87. This train had an
attraction in an old postcar.
Znin was quite disappointing with only
a mini-railcar and T49-115 in the shed of the
narrouw-gauge. A diesel brought us back to Naklo. After
filling our stomach with soup we photographed two funny
things: a gasstation with 'CPN' (in Holland the communist
party) and propaganda - information - from 'PPR'
(communist party in Poland, but a smal left-wing party in
Holland). The train to Bydgoszcz was diesel again. Here
we changed to an overcrowded nighttrain to the south.
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Ol49-36 with the impressive 7.41 a.m. train from Pila
7 open wagons, loaded with fertilizer, pulled by
Tx6-503
in Szubin we got the permission to take a pic of
Ty43-115...
...and Ol49-87
propaganda
- information - from PPR (communist party in Poland, but
a small left-wing party in Holland)
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the local train Tarnowskie Gory - Fosowskie, in
Tworog Brynek about 13:44
our hope to see the last OKl27 didn't come out; only
the dirty no. 50 waited for scrap
closer view to Fosowskie's TKt48s
the
guard, nor the very friendly crews at the locos didn't
make any objection when we wanted to photograph a
crossing with a third TKt48
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July 08, 1978 We arrived in a bad shape in Tarnowskie Gory, in
the northtern part of the Upper Silesia area of
coalmines. In the local train to Fosowskie, with
TKt48-69, we could recover a bit. Our hope to see the
last active OKl27 didn't come out. Only the dirty no. 50
waited for scrap. But the good thing was that we got the
permission to aim our cameras at four TKt48 in the shed.
This one wasn't written in our photopermit. One of the
workers told us that Polish people were allowed to travel
to the West, but only could take 20 German marks with
them. 'You can't buy anything with that money!' He was
right, probably an example of discouraging these travel
plans.
The very nice weather tempted us to a
short bicycleride in the woods around Fosowskie. That's
why we had our bikes with us: to photograph a steamloco
at the lineside. It made possible a quick departure, then
not every crew was sympathic with railfriends. The driver
sometimes warned the police at the next station. Taking
photos of trains, bridges, stations was strictly
forbidden. So our fingers sometimes trembled a bit on the
release-button... We had a suspect of being victims of a
telltale as we saw a policeman with an angry looking dog
at the platform. We were glad sitting in a train that
just left the station of Fosowskie as we saw this couple!
Our train, dep. 13:01, had a TKt48 at the front and the
back. The guard, nor the very friendly crews at the
locos, didn't make any objection when we wanted to
photograph a crossing with a third Tkt48. So maybe the
angry dog was only a coincidence...
In Tarnowskie Gory we had an another
advantage of our bikes: by riding on the platform, sorry
PKP, we catched an electric train to Katowice which just
arrived. The guard spoke French (!) and liked the cigar
we offered him. We sticked to our peanuts. From the train
window we saw a lot of forbidden fruit, like the big
Ty246 with long coaltrains. The time we gained in
Tarnowskie Gory was lost again near Katowice because of
an electric failure. With the low speed we had a good
view of new and (very) old factories, derailed coal
wagons and the weeds between the tracks. We arrived 90
minutes late. A bed in a studenthouse was the next - and
last - destination of this day.
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TKt48-69
finally arrived to Fosowskie about 11:24 a.m.
the good thing was that we got the permission to aim
our cameras at four TKt48 in the shed
that's why we had our bikes with us: to photograph a
steamloco at the lineside (here: TKt48-127 in
Fosowskie/north with the train from Dobrodzien about
12:43)
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dumped Ty246-24
TKt48-12 with a double-deck train at the marshalling
yard...
...and TKt48-31 with passenger train to Bytom
the signalboxes of Pyskowice still had their German
characteristics - a good background for the Ty45s on this
rainy day
Ty45-256 in Pyskowice
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July 09, 1978 This day we wanted to visit the first shed named
in the permit: Pyskowice. Our local train departed 9:25
from Katowice and would arrive in Szczecin (!) at 22.55.
The ride from the station to the shed was only a few
minutes. We parked our bikes near the office. A driver
offered us a tour. In steam mainly Ty45 in the
roundhouse. Dumped Ty246-24 and the pre-war Ty23-191.
Also TKt48-12 with a double-decktrain at the marshalling
yard. At the other side we looked down to the 'Sandbahn'
which had own locos, as a Ty51. The signalboxes of
Pyskowice still had their German characteristics, a good
background for the Ty45s on this rainy day.
In the house of the turntable we
sheltered together with a steamfriend form Switzerland
and plead for free photography in the guestbook. Our
guide/driver told us he earned 5500 zlotys each month,
the rent for his house was 5000. He came from Malbork to
get more money. As in Holland in earlier days, poverty
made a lot of people alcoholist. We got a proof of that
as we met a very agressive man near the turntable.
Speaking loud he laied one of his arms on my back but
showed no friendship at all: he tried to push me to the
ground. Herman and the railfriend form Switzerland pulled
him aside. I was glad not to be alone. He refused to
leave the shed, so we looked for the master of the shed.
This man forced him to go. We heard that he was in this
position only since a week. His predecessor was fired and
expelled from the communist party because of...
alcoholism! As we took our bicycles again we noticed some
damage: I missed the frontlamp and the dynamo, from
Herman's bike a toothed wheel was broken. He could use
his bike only as a luggage carrier.
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dumped pre-war Ty23-191
at the other side we looked down to 'sandbahn' which
had own locos, as Ty51
Ty45-101 in Pyskowice shed
Ty45-330 on the turntable in the depot
yet another Ty45 - number 355
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July 10, 1978 Another thing went wrong: Herman missed his
pasport. Now had to go to the Dutch embassy in Warszawa.
In the morning we did some shopping in a very rainy
Katowice. The wellknown Pickwick tea was three times more
expensive than the normal 'herbata'. There was no milk
available, but a lot of both Coke and Pepsi Cola.
This day we travelled via Krakow to
Skarzysko Kamienna. The train was overcrowded again, we
had to stand in gangway. We had a nice conversation with
a Polish boy who studied Spanish and would visit the
Netherlands the next week and hoped to earn some money
with a job. In his opinion Polish students had more
freedom to do these things than students in the German
Democratic Republic or the Soviet Union. He studies
Spanish with 50 other students. He wants to be a
translator. His girlfriend is Spanish and studies Polish
in Krakow, so they corrected eachother all the time...
The youth hostel in Skarzysko, a
schoolbuilding, was closed. The hotel near the station
was more expensive but a better option: the whole night
we enjoyed the whistle of the shunter, a Ty51. As the
American example Ty246 they had the wonderful sound which
we only knew from the Westerns. In a garden near the
platforms was standing an another attraction: an armoured
train from WW II.
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July 11, 1978 At 8.00 we departed in a local train to Warszawa
to get a new pasport for Herman. For the way back we
weren't able to purchase tickets. So we had to buy them
from the guard. He asked to wait for a while. He came
back as we were almost the only passengers left in our
waggon. We had to pay 50 Zloty extra each, but got no
tickets. So we doubted if the PKP was the only winner in
this case. At the hotel room we tried our own Indonesian
rice and soup, both taken from home as powder. Next time
we would go to a restaurant again, even if there was
noting else than 'bigos'...
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first came the very dirty Ty51-174 with a passenger
train to Lukow (15.34)...as
horses...
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July 12, 1978 Back to the steamtrains. First a long ride to
Radom and Deblin, a place full of uniforms of all types
and... steam! Although the temptation to take photos was
very big, we decided to keep the camera in the bag. I
wanted to make a pic of the last Pt31s at the
lineside. Herman was less exacting and stayed at the
station of Deblin.
I went out some stations further near
Leopoldow, with my bike. As the train was gone, I saw
where I really was: in front of a huge armycamp! But the
first question - by hand and feet, no guns - of a young
soldier was if he could help me. The old black Dutch
bicycle was a big attraction to the company and the
laughter made the atmosphere pleasant enough. About five
kilometers from the armycamp I found a very nice spot for
both directions near an unguarded level crossing. Nobody
would notice me in the wood. First came the the very
dirty Ty51-174 (instead of Pt31) with a passenger train
to Lukow (15:34) and then - nice looking Pt31-8 with a
passenger train to Deblin (16:40). Aware of the special
photo I've just made, I decided to take no risk with the
film and snapped it off with touristic matters as a
cornfield, horses and a statue of Maria. If the police or
the army would arrest me, I would have an empty film in
the camera... In a little village I ate some soup. My
hart was beating much harder as a policeman on a
motorcycle arrived. He came in and took a chair behind
me. He ordered something and started to eat. No interest
in me... Pffff. A Pt31 was the star on my train back to
Deblin, where Herman waited for me and helped me to
unload the bike. In an overcrowded train we travelled
back to oure 'base' Skarzysko K.
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and nice looking Pt31-8 with a passenger train to
Deblin (16.40)
aware of the special photo I just made, I decided to
take the risk with the film and snapped it off with
touristic matters...
...and
a statue of Maria
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streets of Katowice |
July 13, 1978 Hailstorms with lightning attacked our 8:02 fast
train to Kielce. We felt a little bit home again with all
the water on the floor of the train. In Katowice Herman
wanted to go to the police to ask if someone had found
his original pasport. He believed he lost it in this
town. I would travel on with his luggage to get two beds
in the youth hostel of Kedzierzyn for 24 zloty each. At
the station I waited for Herman.
I enjoyed the time on the station but
didn't see any OKl27 or Ty37, the types we hoped to see
here. In the waiting room I joined the audience of a
French film about a policebrigade. When it was finished,
40 people left the room and only 5 stayed. PKP as a
cinema! One of them tried to change money illegaly with
the now very wellknown gesture of 'change?' with the
thumb and forefinger.
Herman arrived at ten o'clock. He had
suffered a lot of delays and lost connections because of
the heavy weather. In the youth hostel - a school again -
we had a nice time with a lady who understood German but
didn't speak it and a little boy who only wanted to sleep
if we made a nice painting with 'greetings from Holland'.
So we did.
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not bad luck: an Ok22 we
had to pay much more for the city hotel (a view from
Crown Hotel in Swidnica)
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July 14, 1978 We got up early to photograph one of the few
steamtrains to Strzelce. But no luck again: we lost our
way. We wished we could buy some maps... On the way back
to the station we photographed some people on the street,
who didn't appreciate this at all.
At 11:20 we departed with a brand new
diesel, built in 1977, for Kamice. We've met some good
looking Ty2's, TKt48 and Pt47. In Swidnica I tried to
find a youth hostel. But there were no free beds left. So
we had to pay much more for the city hotel, 240 zloty's
each. Though the weather wasn't very good, we tried to
spot some trains near the town. Not bad luck: an Ok22
crossed a TKt48.
The town itself was interesting as
well. A lot of old houses were demolished and rebuild,
exept the historic front. A marvellous job! But here too
people were queuing to get some of the daily needs in the
shops.
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a lot of old houses were demolished and rebuild,
except the historic front......but
here people were queuing to get some of the daily needs
in the shops
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Jaworzyna
Slaska - only Ty2s
'only Ty2' - they repeated...
Ty2-458
Ty2-620
Ty2-752
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July 15, 1978 The shed of Jaworzyna, also in our permit, was
busy but not very interesting. Only Ty2s! The TKt48 and
Pt47 at the station didn't appear in the shed, as we
hoped. The master of the shed asked for a pasport. Herman
was allowed to use his youth-hostel card as an ID...
Accompanied by two (!) policemen we walked around. They
were in a hurry because their shift was almost finsihed.
They thought or hoped we would leave after seeing two or
three Ty2's. 'Only Ty2 here' they repeated. But we
weren't satisfied yet, so they asked someone from the
office to stay with us. This man disappeared soon and
from than we had all the time for ourselves...
Near the roundhouse old Prussian
two/three-axle passenger wagons were being scrapped.
Warlike pictures were made at a shed without the roof.
Near the depot passed a lot of passenger and freight
trains. Yes: all puled by Ty2. We talked to a worker who
had an aunt in Canada. He wanted to show his knowledge of
English, like 'nice', 'good' or 'yes, yes'. But it was
more than we could say in Polish... We were invited to
take dinner with his family. It was a pity that our
travel plans made it impossible.
Our double-deck train to Legnica was
headed by a diesel. Legnica had a very nice roof for the
platforms. It was a little bit like Dresden Neustadt, one
of our favourites. At the shed three Ok1's and some
diesels were lazy. Most trains were diesel. The evening
in the youth hostel went fast with the songs and
guitarplaying of some students from Gliwice. Until two
o'clock we
discussed with a student who wanted to study Spanish.
Seemed to be a popular language among the students we
met...
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near the roundhouse old Prussian two/three-axle
passenger wagons were being scrapped
near the depot passed a lot of passenger...
...and freight trains...
... yes: all pulled by Ty2
Ty2-1371...
...and Herman with his bike
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July 16, 1978 The tables were turned in the morning: the
Polish student drank Pickwick tea, we - the real Polish
'herbata'. At the station my camera didn't work for a
while, so no pics of the nice station for me. After
buying some food and drinks it was time to say goodbye to
Herman. He liked to see some of the good looking
steamlocos in Czechoslovakia. I prefered the route via
Berlin.
A SM42-diesel pulled my train from
Legnica to Poznan with both bicycles in the luggagevan,
because Legnica wasn't able to send them back to Holland.
In Poznan it was no problem. In my compartment the life
was going on. In Wroclaw a very fat lady with a severe
look sat down in front of me. She was very nervous and
put a thing on every seat around me. Later the reason
became clear: her husband, and a baby entered the
compartment. The baby gazed me all the time with big
glassy eyes. Maybe Fellini had liked it...
First thing to do in Poznan was to
bring the two bikes to the luggage office. Not an easy
job with the backpack and photobag also to carry. Happy
to see that Ok1 and Pt47 still were present at the
mainstation.
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Ty2-832 with one two-axle wagon of German origin |
July 17, 1978 Today the woods around Miedzychod were the
reason to sit in the double-deck train with a diesel
which left Poznan 8:20. Leaving the train in Miedzychod,
I saw a Ok1 shunting. Hidden on the stairs of a platform
tunnel, I could make a picture. But the fireman saw my
camera and shouted some angry words in Polish. I was
happy to have my bike with me, it made it possible to
leave this unpleasant station and look for a spot in the
wonderful woods with small lakes. Even more exciting was
the cross of two steamtrains around two o'clock. The
'echo' of whistles in the woods was superb. So were the
trains: Ty2-832 with one two-axle wagon of German origin
and well painted Ok1-180 with double-deck wagons and with
a driver who hated railwayfriends. He shouted a Polish
word I understood as 'forbidden', so it was wise to leave
the spot.
Some kilometers further I met a
freighttrain on a high dam with an unexpected Ty45. That
was it for this day, half past eight back in Poznan.
There I enjoyed the departure of Ok1-180 (20:50) and a
Ol49 (21:34). The youth hostel was full of noisy children
now.
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and well painted Ok1-180 with double-deck wagons and
the driver who hated railwayfriends |
a nice Pt47 was coming by, but a difficult decision
had to be made, then from other direction came a Ty43
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July 18, 1978 The plan for making linesidepics near Poznan
couldn't carry out. There seemed to be maneouvres with
tanks and police passing the best photospots. A train I
accepted with Ty5 had a diesel instead, so not much lost.
The old tramway was an alternative. And the strawberries
someone sold in the citycentre, very good taste.
Pausing in a park near a railwaybridge
I suddenly heard a steamwhistle. A nice Pt47 was coming
by, but a difficult descision had to be made then from
the other direction came a Ty43 with freight! Which one
first? It didn't matter because both locos crossed
exactly under my feet! The photo of an Ok1 arriving at
17:41 was impossible with the strong sunlight from the
'wrong' side.
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July 19, 1978 A Polish biology teacher in the youth hostel
wanted to know a lot about Holland. It was a big pitty to
him that he couldn't visit the country because of the
high costs.
This last day in Poland showed a Pt47
shunting in the station of Poznan Glowny. The fast train
to Berlin was late and departed from an another platform.
But other things went well and half past four I entered
the tourist office near the station Berlin Zoo to get a
cheap bed. Two days more with Pacifics in Berlin and than
three weeks of working to pay back the debts I made for
this tour...
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