In the summer of 1939, weeks ahead of the Nazi German and Soviet invasion of Poland the map of both Europe and Poland looked very different from today. The railway network of interwar Poland had littl
Poland's own locomotive Pt31-64 produced by H. Cegielski – Poznań in the interwar Second Polish Republic
The Main Railway Terminal in today's Lviv, Ukraine, an Art Nouveau style construction designed in 1903 by Władysław Sadłowski for Austria's Lemberg, a city in 1939 placed in Poland as Lwów
Polish station on postcard, 1930s
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The Polish State Railways is a Polish state-owned holding company comprising the rail transport holdings of the country's formerly dominant namesake railway operator. The company was reformed in 2001
Polish State Railways in summer 1939
…border crossings in operation in the summer of 1939. 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…
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A steam engine of the Warsaw–Terespol railway, 1866
Gdańsk Główny is one of Poland's largest category A stations.
PKP regional headquarters in Wrocław