LKR 'Lyntog' MA469 at Wolsztyn, Poland. 14/10/93.
In 1992 DSB sold its redundant 'Lyntog' (Lightning Train) sets to regional operator LKR in Poland for a token price as the units had not been used since withdrawal in January 1990. They were delivered between March and September 1992 via the Gedser to Warnemunde train ferry and then moved across Germany to their new home in Poland.
LKR (Lubuska Kolej Regionala) was based in Zielona Góra and had 10 ex DSB class MA power cars along with 29 trailers and commenced operations on 23rd May 1993. Polish State Railway PKP simply gave the new company six lines on which to operate for free as they were all considered unremunerative despite several still having PKP freight services. Two of the routes run by LKR started out of Wolsztyn namely the lines to Sulechów and Nowa Sól. The unit depicted with power car MA469 leading is stabled in the carriage sidings beside Wolsztyn station between workings alongside SU45-040. If PKP couldn't make the lines pay it was no surprise LKR couldn't either and the company ceased operations on 1st February 1994 having not lasted a year. It was a bizarre sight to see once prestige Danish inter-city trains pottering along Polish branch lines. I wonder what the locals thought when their somewhat austere Polish double deck stock was replaced with these 'luxury' trains.
LKR 'Lyntog' MA469 at Wolsztyn, Poland. 14/10/93.
In 1992 DSB sold its redundant 'Lyntog' (Lightning Train) sets to regional operator LKR in Poland for a token price as the units had not been used since withdrawal in January 1990. They were delivered between March and September 1992 via the Gedser to Warnemunde train ferry and then moved across Germany to their new home in Poland.
LKR (Lubuska Kolej Regionala) was based in Zielona Góra and had 10 ex DSB class MA power cars along with 29 trailers and commenced operations on 23rd May 1993. Polish State Railway PKP simply gave the new company six lines on which to operate for free as they were all considered unremunerative despite several still having PKP freight services. Two of the routes run by LKR started out of Wolsztyn namely the lines to Sulechów and Nowa Sól. The unit depicted with power car MA469 leading is stabled in the carriage sidings beside Wolsztyn station between workings alongside SU45-040. If PKP couldn't make the lines pay it was no surprise LKR couldn't either and the company ceased operations on 1st February 1994 having not lasted a year. It was a bizarre sight to see once prestige Danish inter-city trains pottering along Polish branch lines. I wonder what the locals thought when their somewhat austere Polish double deck stock was replaced with these 'luxury' trains.