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Strzała Bałtyku ( en, Baltic Arrow) was an express train of the Polish State Railroads, which in the
interbellum period In the history of the 20th century, the interwar period lasted from 11 November 1918 to 1 September 1939 (20 years, 9 months, 21 days), the end of the First World War to the beginning of the Second World War. The interwar period was relativel ...
travelled from
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, via Laskowice Pomorskie, to Hel, crossing the distance within 6 hours and 50 minutes. After the war, the train continued service on a changed, shorter route, going in the early 1960s from Warsaw to
Gdynia Gdynia ( ; ; german: Gdingen (currently), (1939–1945); csb, Gdiniô, , , ) is a city in northern Poland and a seaport on the Baltic Sea coast. With a population of 243,918, it is the 12th-largest city in Poland and the second-largest in th ...
in 4 hours and 18 minutes.http://miasta.gazeta.pl/trojmiasto/1,49421,5550856,Remont_torow_trwa__ale_co_z_pociagami_.html The 1960s train, which used steam engines, was faster than contemporary
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Express ''Kaszub'', which takes 4 hours and 26 minutes.


Route


1937–1939

* Warszawa Gdańska –
Działdowo Działdowo (german: Soldau) (Old Prussian: Saldawa) is a town in northern Poland with 20,935 inhabitants as of December 2021, the capital of Działdowo County. As part of Masuria, it is situated in the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship (since 1999), D ...
– Laskowice –
Tczew Tczew (, csb, Dërszewò; formerly ) is a city on the Vistula River in Eastern Pomerania, Kociewie, northern Poland with 59,111 inhabitants (December 2021). The city is known for its Old Town and the Vistula Bridge, or Bridge of Tczew, which pl ...
Gdynia Gdynia ( ; ; german: Gdingen (currently), (1939–1945); csb, Gdiniô, , , ) is a city in northern Poland and a seaport on the Baltic Sea coast. With a population of 243,918, it is the 12th-largest city in Poland and the second-largest in th ...
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Early 1960s

* Warszawa -
Iława Iława (; german: Deutsch Eylau ) is a town in northern Poland with 32,276 inhabitants (2010). It is situated in the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship (since 1999); previously it was in Olsztyn Voivodeship (1975–1998). It is the capital of Iława C ...
- Gdańsk - Gdynia.


See also

*
Luxtorpeda Luxtorpeda – a popular name of the famous Polish railcar from the 1930s. History In April 1933, Austrian company Austro-Daimler demonstrated their new railcar for long-distance express connections, to PKP. During one of the demonstration ru ...
* Polish Coal Trunk-Line * Latający Wilnianin


References

Named passenger trains of Poland 1930s in Poland {{Poland-rail-transport-stub