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Scotland May 2026
1R52 Nottingham to Liverpool Lime Street. Class 158 Express in De-branded Stagecoach livery with EMR Regional branding seen here at Sheffield where the service reverses and heads towards Liverpool.
170101 at March (Middle Road) on 02/01/2026 with CrossCountry service 1L30 07:22 Birmingham New Street to Ely.
Printed sheets with route map. timings, and descriptions for The Knotty Rambler, North Staffordshire, Sunday 24th September 1972, a one-off special running from Crewe to Heath's Junction, Cauldon Low and Oakamoor, including lines still open for freight trains, but long since closed to passenger traffic.
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Rozpoczęcie wystawiania składów wagonowych przez Polregio na trasie Chojnice - Hel przypada na 1 maja.
Tym samym w piątek rozpoczął się prawdopodobnie ostatni sezon dla tych składów. Szopa w Chojnicach, która na swoim koncie ma 5 lokomotyw SU/SM42, 12 bohunów oraz 8 bonanz uruchamia co sezon na trasie Chojnice - (Gdynia)* - Hel trzy składy złożone z wagonów i lokomotywy. Nadchodzące naprawy lokomotyw i wagonów oraz planowane przejęcie tych połączeń przez spółkę Urzędu Marszałkowskiego stawia przyszłość tych pociągów pod dużym znakiem zapytania. Utrata tych składów będzie zwłaszcza odczuwalna na niezmodernizowanym Ostbahnie, który w wielu miejscach wyposażony jest w semafory kształtowe.
*Dwa z tych trzech składów jeździ w relacji Gdynia - Hel.
Na zdjęciu SU42-534 opuszcza Starogard Gdański mijając nastawnię i semafory kształtowe w tle.
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The 1st of May marks the start of seasonal passenger trains consisting of wagons ran by Polregio between Chojnice and the seaside town of Hel. Thereby on Friday these trains set out in what could very well be their last year of operation. The Polregio depot in Chojnice, which on it’s charts has 5 SU/SM42 locos, 12 double-decker Bmnopux and 8 120A type wagons, runs three consists using these locos and wagons between Chojnice - (Gdynia)* - Hel. Upcoming repairs of locos and wagons and the planned takeover of these connections by a provincional company poses many questions for the future of these classic consists. It would be a great loss seeing only DMU’s especially on the „Ostbahn” between Chojnice and Tczew which is still unmodernized and equipped in many places with mechanical semaphores.
*Two of the three consists run between Gdynia and Hel.
In the picture SU42-534 leaves behind the station in Starogard Gdański passing the signal box which operates the mechanical semaphores in the background.
02.05.2026 (C) Antoni Marchlewski
Every spring, PolRegio takes out countless passenger coaches from their storage area in Chojnice. The tourist season at the seaside is about to start and additional capacity is required to fit all the people who are yearning for the beaches on the first warm days of the year, during the May holidays.
For the test to be complete, coaches need to be brought to their max speed. For this purpose, a PolRegio diesel brings them to Tczew, where PKP Intercity's electric loco takes them towards Gdańsk and accelerates all the way to 120km/h.
The transport from Chojnice to Tczew on 9.04.2026 was pictured by me at Piesienice on the Ostbahn. The train was hauled by SU42-521 and the coaches tested on that day were the old single decker class 120A carriages from the 1970s, albeit in the new livery of Polregio.
Photo by Piotrek/Toprus
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The Knotty Rambler, North Staffordshire, Sunday 24th September 1972, a one-off special running from Crewe to Heath's Junction, Cauldon Low and Oakamoor, including lines still open for freight trains, but long since closed to passenger traffic.
The scanned sheets supplied with the booking will be the next upload in this photostream.
The Knotty Rambler, North Staffordshire, Sunday 24th September 1972, a one-off special running from Crewe to Heath's Junction, Cauldon Low and Oakamoor, including lines still open for freight trains, but long since closed to passenger traffic.
This photo shows the header board being transferred to the opposite end of the train.
The scanned sheets supplied with the booking will be the next upload in this photostream.
