Was in Poland just before Christmas, spent about a week around Krakow.
One tip, if you get a sleeper, don't open the window, they used coal for
the carriage heaters, you get a lung full of it and wake up coughing.
It certainly had the biggest mix of old and new traction as they have
only recently started to replace 1960s and 70s gear with new stock.

http://picasaweb.google.com/michaeltrs/KrakowPoland

Frank Tybislawski wrote:
>
> Yeah, thanks for the tip-off.
>
> I quite enjoyed it on a number of levels, the steam, the signalling,
> and the location.
>
> I have a vague plan of visiting Poland in a few years so I'll have to
> put this on the list of things to check out although I doubt I can
> donate a week towards it. If the SM didn't like "tourists" driving
> the trains how would he feel about an Australian tourist with Polish
> heritage operating "his" double wire lever frame?????
>
> In anyone here has travelled to/through Poland by rail could you
> email me off list for further information.
>
> And the relevance of this to QRIG is, ..........., umm, ........., ah-
> yes, the double wire lever frame looked very similar to what existed
> at Miles even down to the rectangular lever number plates.
>
> Frank T
>
> --- In qrig@yahoogroups.com <mailto:qrig%40yahoogroups.com>, "Ben
> Francis" <ben.francis@...> wrote:
> >
> > Thanks for the heads up on this one. Seems the Poles are having a
> hard time
> > getting over the "tourists" playing with their trains. Was good to
> see the
> > journo getting his hands dirty, I wonder if he caught the bug, it
> certainly
> > looked like it.
> >
> > Ben.
>
>