Sunday, October 29, 2023

the world’s last scheduled standard-gauge steam-train service, the last one primarily for regular passengers, not tourists, is in Poland


Steam trains had survived longer in Communist Poland than elsewhere because it produced lots of cheap coal, and diesel replacements were expensive. Steam engines were still common in the 1980s, and three or four working sheds survived until 1990, but by 1994, Wolsztyn’s was the last one left.

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