STANDARD-GAUGE
LOCOMOTIVES IN POLAND
by Tomasz Galka
WELCOME!
A few years ago I started with just making a list of all individual types of locomotives ever used in Poland by the state railways (PKP), private railways (few at that time), various industrial establishments etc. This list eventually has grown up to include over 300 distinct classes and types – in fact is still slowly growing and new classes appear from time to time. There will be much to write about.
It is my intention to account for all these classes and types, but this will certainly take some time. Sorry, long time. Many of them were represented just by single examples that no longer exist, and data on them are often very hard to find. Sometimes even the very existence of a class is a subject to dispute. Others, even quite numerous, were quickly withdrawn and scrapped before their historical value could be appreciated. Anyway, this all makes the research more exciting…
If you somehow made your way to my page and found it interesting, please return after some time: I will try to expand and update it as often as possible, but – well, I also have to make my living!
CREDITS
Basically I make use of all sources that, in my humble opinion,
can be considered reliable. They include books, periodicals, brochures, web pages,
private communications and whatever else might be conceived. For obvious
reasons some references have been used relatively often and, in order not to
quote all information each time, they have been denoted by abbreviations. They
include (in alphabetical order):
AP = Atlas
Parowozów by Paweł Terczyński (2003) (Poland)
AV = Atlas vozidel (parts 1, 2 and
3), edited by the Železniční Magazín (
EDÖ = Erhaltene
Dampfloks in und aus Österreich by Dieter Zoubek (2004) (Austria)
EZ = Encyklopedie Železnice, five
volumes so far (
KDD = Koleje Dawniej
I Dziś bimonthly (Poland)
KMD = Koleje Małe i
Duże bimonthly (Poland)
LBDZ = Lokomitivata na
Bolgarskata Daržavne Železnice by Dymitr Deyanov and Stefan Deyanov (1998)
(Bulgaria)
LOZD = Lokomotivy
Otečestviennych Železnych Dorog by V.A.Rakov (vol. 1 and 2) (Russia)
LP = Die Lokomotiven der PKP 1918-1939 by Ingo Hütter and Reimar
Holzinger (2007) (DGEG, Germany)
MAL = Malý Atlas
Lokomotiv 2002 by Jaromír Bittner, Jaroslav Křenek, Bohumil Skála and Milan
Šrámek (Czech Republic)
PNP = Parowozy
Normalnotorowe Produkcji Polskiej dla PKP i Przemysłu by Bogdan Pokropiński
(1987) (Poland)
PNPP = Parowozy Normalnotorowe
Produkcji Polskiej by Bogdan Pokropiński (2007)
(Poland)
PPE = Polskie
Parowozy Eksportowe by Bogdan Pokropiński (1993) (Poland)
RR = The Railways of
SK = Świat Kolei
monthly (Poland)
SS = Stalowe szlaki
monthly (Poland)
TB = Typenblätter Nos.1 and 2 by
Horst J. Obermayer, edited by the Eisenbahn Journal in 2002 (
I have tried to mention all references of various types (books,
magazines, web pages etc.) where appropriate, but direct feedback from
other railway fans is always unique. I’d like in particular to thank all those
who helped me by sending valuable and hard to find information in response to
my sometimes odd queries and, in some cases, their own photographs. They are
(again, in alphabetical order):
Vadim Anokhin (
Igor Bosnyakov (
John Bryant (Canada)
Ariel Ciechański (Poland)
Tomasz Ciemnoczułowski (Poland)
Duncan Cotterill (UK
– http://www.railography.co.uk/)
Tomisław ‘Tomi’ Czarnecki (Poland)
Rik Degruyter (Belgium)
Michał Derela (Poland)
Mircea Dorobantu (Romania)
Winicjusz Drozdowski (Poland)
Tomasz Drzewiecki (Poland – www.parowozy.strefa.pl)
Frank Engel (Germany – www.frank-engel.de)
Roman Ficek (Poland)
Marek Graff (Poland)
Urs Hudritsch (Switzerland)
Ingo Hütter (Germany)
Ferenc Joó (Hungary)
Adam Krzemiński (Poland)
Jason Van Landschoot
(Belgium)
Damian Lemański (Poland – http://korsze-foto.blog.onet.pl)
Robert J. Lettenberger
(USA)
Florian Menius
(Germany)
Kurt H.Miska (USA – http://www-personal.umich.edu/~khmiska)
Tomasz Mleczek (Poland)
Tim Moore (USA)
Wojtek ‘Mundek’ Nowak (Poland)
Rafał Onysk (Poland)
Jean-Marie Ottelé
(Luxembourg)
Michał ‘Doctor’ Pawełczyk (Poland)
Geoff Plumb (
Josef Pospichal (Austria)
Adrian Raduta (Romania)
Wim De Ridder (Belgium)
Derek Russell-Hill
(Ireland)
Geoff Sarbutt (UK)
Jarosław Dominik Stawarz
aka Chester (Poland)
Petr Štefek (Czech
Republic)
John Stewart (Canada)
Maciej Stępień (Poland)
Rolf Stumpf (
George Togias (
Rafał Wiernicki (Poland)
Dieter Zoubek (Austria)
… and the list is still growing. Thanks a lot!
And, last but not least, I’d like to
thank Lech Sałkiewicz and Artur Liszka, who first made this project possible
and then helped me on technical issues. I am not a computer specialist, so
without their assistance it would all have ended up in nothing. Thanks, pals!
All photos and images are of my
authorship, unless otherwise indicated.
Finally, if you have any comments,
corrections, amendments or remarks, and especially any words of appreciation,
or a photo you’d like to see on my page, please contact me here. Every valuable contribution shall
be acknowledged – but please allow some time.
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