STANDARD-GAUGE LOCOMOTIVES IN POLAND
by Tomasz Galka
WELCOME!
Back in 2007, 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. Hopefully there will still be much to write about.
It was my intention to account for all these classes and types, and in fact it still is. Currently about twenty are left, most of them old and obscure classes represented by single examples that no longer exist. Reliable 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 Others, even quite numerous, were quickly withdrawn and scrapped before their historical value could be appreciated.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):
AL = Atlas Lokomotyw by Paweł Terczyński (2002) (Poland)
ALE = Atlas Lokomotyw Elektrycznych by Paweł
Terczyński (2017) (Poland)
AP = Atlas
Parowozów by Paweł Terczyński (2003) (Poland)
AV = Atlas vozidel (parts 1, 2 and 3), edited by the Železniční Magazín
(Czech Republic)
DA = Dampflok-Archiv, four volumes (Transpress,
Germany)
DL = Die Dampflokomotiven der Baureihen 01
bis 45 der DRG, DRB, DB und DR by Ingo Hütter (2009) (DGEG, Germany)
EDÖ = Erhaltene Dampfloks in und aus
Österreich by Dieter Zoubek
(2004) (Austria)
EZ = Encyklopedie Železnice,
five volumes so far (Corona, Czech Republic)
ISRSL = Italian
State Railways Steam Locomotives by P.M. Kalla-Bishop
(Tourret, UK, 1986)
ITFR = Istoricul Tracţiuni Ferroviare din România by Şerban Lacriţeanu and Ilia Popescu (2007) (Romania)
KDD = Koleje
Dawniej I Dziś bimonthly (Poland)
KMD = Koleje
Małe i Duże bimonthly (Poland)
KT = Die K.k.St.B.
Triebfahrzeuge by Johann Blieberger
and Josef Pospichal (four volumes – Bahnmedien,
Austria)
LBDZ = Lokomitivata
na Bolgarskata Daržavne Železnice by Dymitr Deyanov and Stefan Deyanov (1998) (Bulgaria)
LAÖ = Lokomotivbau im Alt-Österreich 1837-1918 by Karl Gölsdorf (1978) (Austria)
LHR = Lokomotiven ‚Heim ins Reich’ by Andreas Knipping, Ingo Hütter and Hansjürgen Wenzel (2010) (Germany)
LOZD = Lokomotivy
Otečestviennych Železnych Dorog by V.A.Rakov
(vol. 1, 2 and 3) (Russia)
LP = Die
Lokomotiven der PKP 1918-1939 by Ingo Hütter and Reimar Holzinger (2007) (DGEG, Germany)
LSPP = Lokomotywy
spalinowe produkcji polskiej by Bogdan Pokropiński (2009) (Poland)
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 Romania by Chris Bailey (2002) (UK)
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 (Germany)
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):
Toms Altbergs (Latvia)
Vadim Anokhin (Russia)
Toma Bacic (Croatia)
Łukasz Bączek (Poland)
Igor Bosnyakov (Russia)
Daniel Brabenec (Czech Republic)
Tadej Brate
(Slovenia)
John Bryant (Canada)
Ian Calderwood (UK)
Tom Caudill (USA)
Jacek ‘Jaco’ Chiżyński (Poland)
Ariel Ciechański (Poland)
Tomasz Ciemnoczułowski (Poland)
Nick Clarke (UK)
Duncan Cotterill (UK – http://www.railography.co.uk/)
Phil Crawshaw (UK)
Tomisław ‘Tomi’ Czarnecki (Poland)
Rik Degruyter
(Belgium)
Marek Dąbrowski (Poland – www.kolejowaklatka.org)
Michał Derela (Poland)
Seweryn Dębski (Poland)
Krzysztof Dobrzański (Poland – http://swr.podkarpackakolej.net)
Mircea Dorobantu (Romania)
Winicjusz Drozdowski (Poland – www.swiatnaszynach.pl)
Tomasz Drzewiecki (Poland – www.parowozy.strefa.pl)
Frank Engel (Germany – www.frank-engel.de)
Keith Fender (UK)
Roman Ficek (Poland)
Yves Godrie (Belgium)
Maciej Górowski (Poland) – www.transportszynowy.pl
Marek Graff (Poland)
Lawrence Van Haecke
(Belgium)
Tamas Haller (Romania)
David Hills (UK)
Charles Hinton (UK)
Markus Hoenicka (Germany)
Klaus D. Holzborn (Germany)
Urs Hudritsch
(Switzerland)
Ingo Hütter (Germany)
Bernd Illge (Germany)
Ferenc Joó
(Hungary)
Agata Kasperek
and Roman Reichelt, aka PhotoGataR
(many more excellent railway related pictures at http://photogatar.com)
Michał Kawecki (Poland)
Attila Kirchner (Hungary)
Adam Krzemiński (Poland)
Jason Van Landschoot (Belgium)
Sebastián Langhoffer (Slovakia)
Damian Lemański
(Poland – http://korsze-foto.blog.onet.pl)
Robert J. Lettenberger (USA)
Everett Lueck
(USA)
Krzysztof Malinowski (Poland)
Florian Menius (Germany)
Jan Michalski (Poland)
Kurt H. Miska
(USA – http://www-personal.umich.edu/~khmiska)
Tomasz Mleczek (Poland)
Tim Moore (USA)
Kai Mund (Germany)
Wojtek ‘Mundek’ Nowak (Poland)
Holger Neumann (Germany)
Rafał Onysk (Poland)
Jean-Marie Ottelé (Luxembourg)
Michał ‘Doctor’ Pawełczyk (Poland)
John Peakman
(UK)
Mariusz Plewka
(Poland)
Geoff Plumb (UK – http://geoff-plumb.fotopic.net)
Josef Pospichal (Austria)
Robert Prusakowski (Poland)
Stefan Puscasu (Romania – http://cfr.stfp.net)
Artur Przęczek (Poland)
Adrian Raduta (Romania)
Wim De Ridder (Belgium)
Chaz Robitaille
(USA)
Ryszard Rusak (Poland)
Derek Russell-Hill
(Ireland)
Geoff Sarbutt
(UK)
Giuseppe Signorello (Italy)
Ryszard Stankiewicz (Poland)
Piotr Staszewski (Poland)
Jarosław Dominik Stawarz aka Chester (Poland)
Petr Štefek (Czech Republic)
John Stewart (Canada)
Maciej Stępień (Poland)
Rolf Stumpf (Germany)
George Togias (Greece)
Chris West (UK)
Rafał Wiernicki (Poland)
Dmitry Zinoviev
(Russia)
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.
Online
since June 21, 2007
Last modified
and updated: May 15, 2024
Current
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