GUEST'S GALLERY: Forest Track

Image courtesy of Pete Tunnicliffe

This is the railway track through Barbarka Forest. Today it's rarely used.

Scenes from the Railway

Toruń's Miasto station is the closest train station to the old town...but it's not the main one (that one is situated on the other side of the river!). It's also pretty dingy and as you can see full of grafiti. It also has the odd tanker train rolling through it. The joys!

Following the Footsteps of Toruń's POWs: Built by the Prisoners

The old railway station built by prisoners. The small holes in the walls

are evidence of where the scaffolding was once placed

The concrete slabs in the walls are examples of bomb protection as stations

were key strategic targets. There was a bomb shelter within the building.

Inside the old train station

The Water Tower

Built by the Prisoners:

For 12 hrs every day the POWs were forced to do hard labour. Both this former railway station and water tower were built by prisoners. The water tower is still fully operational.

All Aboard!

Captured, late at night on a foggy platform at Toruń's main railway station...this osobowy is north bound. Osobowy basically means 'People train'...and it is the cheapest type of railway service in Poland. Usually, because they are much slower...stopping off in many rural stations along the way.