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Rail lines of Wolne Miasto Gdańsk (Free City of Danzig) were controlled by the Toruń region of the Polish State Railways, therefore were included in the Polish timetable. In the summer of 1939, three pairs of German transit trains crossed the Polish Corridor daily en route to East Prussia: two between Berlin and Eydtkau (now Chernyshevskoye ...
In use until 1939 Th2: Prussian G 4 1: C n2v 8 1883–1898 — — before 1936 Th3: Prussian G 4 2: C n2v 103 + 8 Dz 1887–1900 1 1899 to 1948 Th4: Prussian G 4 3: C n2v 10 + 5 Dz 1905–1907 — — in use until 1939 Th101: Saxon V V: C n2v 9 1887–1900 — — to 1936 Th102: Württemberg Fc: C n2v 19 1890–1909 before 1936 Ti1: Prussian G ...
The Polish State Railways (Polish: Polskie Koleje Państwowe [ˈpɔlskʲɛ ˈkɔlɛjɛ paj̃ˈstfɔvɛ], abbr.: PKP S.A. [2]) is a Polish state-owned holding company (legally a sole-shareholder company of the State Treasury) comprising the rail transport holdings of the country's formerly dominant namesake railway operator.
The history of rail transport in Poland dates back to the first half of the 19th century when railways were built under Prussian, Russian, and Austrian rule. Of course, "divided Poland" in the 19th century was the territory of the former Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth rather than today's Republic of Poland.
Armored train "Danuta" in 1939. Armored trains of Poland mostly date to the World War I period. Many of them were modernized over the next two decades, and took part in most military conflicts of the Second Polish Republic, namely the Greater Poland Uprising, the Polish-Ukrainian War, the Polish-Bolshevik War, the Silesian Uprisings and the Polish September Campaign in World War II.
Fablok Luxtorpeda on the way to Zakopane (1930s) The Luxtorpedas' main base was Kraków, and from there they ran to the Tatra Mountains resort of Zakopane.The 147-kilometre (91 mi) distance between the two cities, a difficult route with many reverse curves of 190 m (620 ft) radius and grades of up to 2.7%, was covered, on average, in 2 hours and 45 minutes.
After the Polish Army was mobilised in 1939, the train was assigned to the Poznań Army. In the first days of the war, the Danuta supported various Polish infantry units. On 4 September, the train was bombed by the Luftwaffe, but received only minor damage. Next the train participated in the Battle of the Bzura.
The approximate number of railway sabotage operations carried out by Polish resistance and/or on the Polish territories in the years 1942-1945 was estimated by Krzysztof Komorowski in 2009 at around 2850 operations (including about 7% of failed attempts), noting that the successful attacks targeted 1825 large and 100 small train complements and ...