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The New Zealand Railways Magazine, Volume 4, Issue 12 (April 1, 1930)

Commercialisation in Poland

Commercialisation in Poland.

The Italian State Railways, although owned and operated by the Government, are run on essentially commercial lines. This move has been favoured by many of the Governmentowned railway systems of Europe of late years, and now comes the news of the proposed early commercialisation of the State Railways of Poland. The Polish State Railways were formed, after the Great War, from railways previously belonging to Russia, Germany and Austria. These lines naturally suffered very greatly during civilisation's struggle and in the Bolshevik troubles which followed, and, on the setting up of the new railway undertaking serving the new Poland, a most ambitious and comprehensive rehabilitation plan was drawn up. As a result of these efforts, transport in Poland has been put on an efficient basis. Track works, and rolling-stock of modern type have been acquired, and to-day the Polish railway system consists of 17,235 kilometres of sound track. Locomotives number 5,215, passenger carriages 11,940, and goods wagons 144,650. At the present time, attention is being devoted to the doubling of single tracks, and the linking up of the various sections of the system which, in pre-war days, constituted parts of separate railway undertakings.

A Tourist Haunt Of Old-World England. (Photo, courtesy of the Great Western Rly.) The East Gate in the ancient walled City of Chester.

A Tourist Haunt Of Old-World England.
(Photo, courtesy of the Great Western Rly.)
The East Gate in the ancient walled City of Chester.