Abandoned Steam Trains in Poland - Part 2 

Sounds exciting

@@lmm oh yes, really looking forward to this.

Can you just summarise that no way ima read all that.

Hundreds of men laid off because you no longer needed an army of fitters to clean and maintain locomotives. I don't agree much with the Beeching Cuts but most of the ideas of the previous 1955 modernisation plan would have been more fruitful had it been put in action more effectively, such as replacing steam locomotives with diesel/electric locomotives.

@@thestati0nmaster579 thank you

@@thestati0nmaster579 also if beaching didn't do it the next person would of I don't prefer it but at the end of the day it's life we are the only problem and so we have to make more intellectual mechanical things and later we have electrical locomotives

Very unlikely sadly

@@lmm Yeah but we can hope they do all return to service at some point.

If you’ve got the cash then get them going. Howard Jones did just that from 1997 to this year when he passed away

why??

Type 52 still in use in Bosnia

Whenever he can afford it.

Thank you very much

It's on my list to visit

I think currently three engines in ticket on the standard guage in Poland. It's not a matter of restoring them all - but there's not the want to keep the engines that have run in recent years running, less so these ones. The abandoned engines have little hope, there are engines in better condition in various museums that, with money and enough people, may steam again.

@@lmm there is want. But there is no money. And wrong people are placed in charge. I don't want to go to deep into it, it's politics and you don't want a flamewar of Poles now in your comments, as this channel is not about this, but wrong people are put in charge everywhere and money are being siphoned of everything nowadays. Heritage railways is one thing, but at least this is less of more still managed by people who, while might not have means, might still have a clue about steam trains. If you want to know how bad it COULD be, check what happened to the world famous arabian horse stables after a long-time world-class expert in charge of that instiution was replaced by a party nominate who "always wanted to try himself in something like farming". Yes, I don't remember it exactly, but this is the real gist of the quote. The isntitution with centuries of history that survived parition of Poland, two world wars and 45 years of communism was virtually destroyed in just 5 years. If you run some NGO, heritage institution, or even a state owned museum today, either you brown nose the government, or you are put on the side-track - in an optimistic outcome - or replaced by some ignorant party nominate, who'll destroy your lifetime work in no time. Hence lack of funding in one places - mostly where money would really be needed - and bunch of cronies burning money on some stupid, but politically approved projects. The only institution independent from the ruling party that is really well funded in Poland nowadays is Catholic church, and that's only because they are their political allies :( Poland might look nice on the surface, but a lot of things are happening underneath that aren't visible from abroad, and you'd be surprised how far things went in that field.

I didn't think that was currently working? I have seen it when it came to Wolsztyn. Absolutely stunning.

It's just we have so much of them, as they were in service as recently as 1992 or so...

I love this video Too😄

It is, but they only just are keeping the running engines in service. They may look to restore engines in the museum, but none of these outside.

Yes, it is, but sadly the new director is interested in everything else than making locos run again. One, the Pt47-65, underwent its periodic reparation to at least run that one regular service, but there are no signs for a soon restoring of any other locomotive at Wolsztyn. Meanwhile Chabówka has 2 or 3 running locomotives (Ty42-107, Ty2-911 and maybe Ty2-953), some other are being worked on, Jaworzyna Śląska is at least collecting funds to restore one of its' locos, the private Ty42-24 stationed at Pyskowice is also running after boiler checkup, and some other subjects are working on their steam locos.

@@TheMofRider2 Not sure about Ty2-953 but they are now repairing two of their tank engines OKz32-2 and TKt48-191.

They'd all be out of gauge. The only place you could run one would be the Nene Valley Railway.

They are a little on the expensive side.... Nevermind the costs of getting it moved to Gdansk and then on a ship back to britain.

If you know someone who can help make it happen - I'd love to

Yes, I was at his memorial last weekend. We were good friends.

@@lmm nice one. Met him a few times many many years ago

I will!

No, because it wouldn't fit inside the shed. It's wider and taller than British engines, despite running on the same tracks as British stuff.

Here in britain mainly freight though with the odd few passenger trains, Meanwhile the newest Mikado P2 2007 is basically gonna do mainly passenger.

Yeah, they are lifted by the crane to move coal / Ash

@lmm pop it in your pocket and bring it home !!! You know you want too !!! 😉

It's money - you're right, many of them look worse than they are. But a good number are knackered and would need major work

It wouldn't fit in the UK sadly

@@lmm well then, get it to other ones in europe

this hurts me

Oh really?

There's a few still working in different parts of the world

It is!

It has not. Steam is far more expensive than diesel

I did a few years ago

Mam nadzieję że tak😢

Teraz tylko Pt jest pod parą?

Tak

Some were, some built after.

No, our loading gauge is much smaller

Would need a load of money to even do that

sadly thats true @@lmm

Oh really?