Strzała Bałtyku ( en, Baltic Arrow) was an express train of the
Polish State Railroads, which in the
interbellum period
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travelled from
Warsaw
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, via
Laskowice Pomorskie
Laskowice (also known as ''Laskowice Pomorskie''; german: Laskowitz) is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Jeżewo, within Świecie County, Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship, in north-central Poland. It lies approximately south-west ...
, 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 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
InterCity
InterCity (commonly abbreviated ''IC'' on timetables and tickets) is the classification applied to certain long-distance passenger train services in Europe. Such trains (in contrast to regional, local, or commuter trains) generally call at m ...
Express ''Kaszub'', which takes 4 hours and 26 minutes.
Route
1937–1939
* Warszawa Gdańska –
Działdowo – Laskowice –
Tczew –
Gdynia.
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Early 1960s
* Warszawa - Iława - Gdańsk
Gdańsk ( , also ; ; csb, Gduńsk;Stefan Ramułt, ''Słownik języka pomorskiego, czyli kaszubskiego'', Kraków 1893, Gdańsk 2003, ISBN 83-87408-64-6. , Johann Georg Theodor Grässe, ''Orbis latinus oder Verzeichniss der lateinischen Benen ...
- 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 run ...
* Polish Coal Trunk-Line
The Coal Trunk-Line ( pl, Magistrala Węglowa) is one of the most important rail connections in Poland.
It crosses the central part of the country, from the coal mines and steelworks of Upper Silesia in the South to the Baltic Sea port of Gdynia i ...
* Latający Wilnianin Latający Wilnianin ( en, Flying Wilnianin
) was the popular name of a passenger train which in the interbellum period linked Warsaw with Wilno (now Vilnius, Lithuania). Another name for that train was ''Gwiazda Północy'' (''The Star of the North ...
References
Named passenger trains of Poland
1930s in Poland
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