Trains and other things: Poznań, Wrocław

My 3rd in Poland starts in Lodz, today I will visit Poznan and Wroclaw.

Taking a tram from the hotel to the station.

Łódzki Dom Kultury - Cultural center

The entrance to the station Łódź Fabryczna

Since the station is a terminus, most long distance trains are not serving this station, but the Eastern station of Widzew. To get there I take a local service.

The local train operated by Łódzka Kolej Aglomeracyjna

Modern Flirt3 trains entered the service in 2014-2015

Tickets can be purchased on board

After a short ride I'm at Widzew station

IC service "Orzeszkowa" from Jelenia Góra to Białystok

Pesa 214M

Pesa Dart

Lodz Widzew station

EN57AL

My next train is an IC "Barbakan" to Poznan

Škoda 59E from 1965, operated by CTL Logistics

The train has ČD Class 182 in Czechia or Seria 182 ČD in Poland

ED160 Stadler Flirt train for PKP Intercity

From Wikipedia: "PKP Intercity in August 2013 ordered 20 eight-car 3 kV DC units with interiors for long distance travel and top speed of 160 km/h (99 mph), for service on four long distance routes in Poland, from a consortium of Stadler Polska and Newag for delivery by October 2015."

IC45102 "Hutnik" from Katowice to Gdynia

My next train will be ED160

It is IC38104 "Barbakan" from Krakow to Szczecin

The train has both 1st and 2nd class

1st class coach

Łódź Chojny

Due to railway works, some EIP trains were re-routed this summer to pass through Lodz without stop

The train is taking railway nr 14 Łódź Kaliska – Tuplice until Ostrów Wielkopolski, then railway nr 272 Kluczbork – Poznań Główny

Zduńska Wola

Sieradz

2nd class coach

Dining coach

Kalisz

The maximum speed on this railway is 120km/h

Pleszew

Škoda 61E (ČD 183) for Bulk Transshipment Slovakia.

Bombardier TRAXX F140 MS from AKIEM (hired to Captrain).

EU07-423 from 1986 branded as Dolnośląskie Linie Autobusowe Sp. z o.o.

Pesa 218M

The train has arrived to Poznan

Poznań Główny (main station) located in the Poland's fifth largest city

Solaris Tramino S105p

Moderus Beta MF 02 AC

Siemens Combino

Poznań Old Town

Modertrans / Tatra RT6 MF06 AC

Back to the station

Water for dogs

Next train is also an Intercity, but with traditional locomotive and coach train

Coach made in Poland

IC to Wroclaw

On the other side of the platform is an EN57 to Kołobrzeg

Intercity train is hauled by EP07 locomotive

1st class compartment coach

Time for a beer in the dining coach

I'm taking railway nr 271 from Poznan to Wroclaw. It is 213km long and it is part of European TEN-T route E59 from Scandinavia to Vienna, Budapest and Prague.

Kościan

This railway has maximum speed of 160km/h. From Wikipedia: "From 1916 to 1918 , the Balkan train was operated periodically , and in the second half of the 1940s the Balt-Orient-Express train from Stockholm to Istanbul was passing (on this line)."

PKP class ST43 diesel locomotive from Romania

ET22

Modernised version of ET22 (modernised in 2010)

ET42

Leszno

1st class coach is of type A9nouz modernised by Pesa in 2015 (original coach type is 140A)

Another IC train 3802 "Matejko" from Przemyśl to Świnoujście

Rawicz

Newag Impuls

Bridge over Oder river

Wrocław Mikołajów

Wrocław Główny, until 1945 named Breslau Hauptbahnhof

The train operated by Przewozy Regionalne, since 2017 branded as Polregio

EP07 locomotive on the route R67901 from Szklarska Poręba Górna to Poznań Gł

To the right is Newag Impuls (36WE) train on route KD67369 Malczyce - Legnica

B16mnopux coach manufactured in East Germany

EN57 to Lichkov which is in Czechia. My original plan included this train on the following day, but due to unclear timetable (it was mentioned about bus replacement) I had to change to another route. As it turned out the service was operating normally, but it was too late for me to change my plans once again.