Mom, can we go to the Balaton Retro Weekend?
-No, we have Balaton Retro Weekend at home.
Already since its founding, Przewozy Regionalne, later Polregio, has been running loco-hauled services on the connections (Chojnice)-Gdynia-Hel. And although it's no Tapolca-Balatonfüred train, it also:
-is hauled by a diesel
-runs along a coastline (here along the gulf of Puck and Gdańsk)
-is very much retro!
Since last summer, the loco-hauled services run on a working timetable designed for 3 days of work and each day there are 5 pairs of Gdynia-Hel trains and one pair Chojnice-Hel. This way, each locomotive leaves Chojnice on the early morning of the first day, the 2nd day is entirely designated to Gdynia-Hel trains, and then it returns on the third day with a Hel-Chojnice train.
Currently SU42-518 is the only historically painted locomotive belonging to the Chojnice depot, though, as you will see in a bit, this situation is due to change very shortly. With a little luck, I managed to catch this locomotive upon departure from Czersk with the regio train 55254 from Chojnice to Hel. A very brief appearance of sunlight allowed for this interesting shot.
Photo by Piotrek/Toprus
Mom, can we go to the Balaton Retro Weekend?
-No, we have Balaton Retro Weekend at home.
Already since its founding, Przewozy Regionalne, later Polregio, has been running loco-hauled services on the connections (Chojnice)-Gdynia-Hel. And although it's no Tapolca-Balatonfüred train, it also:
-is hauled by a diesel
-runs along a coastline (here along the gulf of Puck and Gdańsk)
-is very much retro!
Since last summer, the loco-hauled services run on a working timetable designed for 3 days of work and each day there are 5 pairs of Gdynia-Hel trains and one pair Chojnice-Hel. This way, each locomotive leaves Chojnice on the early morning of the first day, the 2nd day is entirely designated to Gdynia-Hel trains, and then it returns on the third day with a Hel-Chojnice train.
Currently SU42-518 is the only historically painted locomotive belonging to the Chojnice depot, though, as you will see in a bit, this situation is due to change very shortly. With a little luck, I managed to catch this locomotive upon departure from Czersk with the regio train 55254 from Chojnice to Hel. A very brief appearance of sunlight allowed for this interesting shot.
Photo by Piotrek/Toprus