Below: down I go, and here it is! Modernity and big-town sophistication! Pictograms speak of buses and taxis waiting to take you away! The arrow pointing to the exit left suggests that street is called ul. Kolejowa, which is also the name of the street that the other exit takes you to. Either chynow.e-mapa.net and Google Maps and Jakdojade are all wrong, or Jakubowizna will have a new street name soon. Up the stairs to Platform 2...
I climb the stairs to see that access to Platform 2 has not been granted - steel barriers are still in the way. 'ATTENTION! LACK OF PASSAGEWAY' With the lights of my train back to W-wa Jeziorki approaching, I decided to force the barriers open rather than to walk the 850 metres to get to the platform the official way. This is high-level olewactwo - taking the piss out of locals by leaving this object closed to passengers without giving information at the other entrance.
Below: view from Platform 2 of the eastern entrance to the station. It never formally had one before, just a path worn into the ballast and track-side soil by people taking a short-cut to Jakubowizna, so there is progress - just that it's taken so long to get here. I hope we won't have a situation like at W-wa Okęcie station where a new footbridge stayed unopened for over year because no one came to sign it off. At least there are ramps and not lifts, which break often.
On the działka, the team from PGE Obrót cleared a number of trees which were deemed a hazard to the medium-tension power lines running across my land. Anything less than two metres from the lines was deemed a risk and cut down or pruned, including five of my apple trees, which if left unchecked would grow (rather than fall onto) the lines.
Below: of particular concern is the aspen (osika in Polish), a tree which the foreman explained to me grew tall and thin and was kruche (brittle), prone to snapping. The aspen in the adjoining forest gets cut down. A good job done, and given that I reported it on Monday and they came on Friday, good work. A downside was that power to the immediate neighbourhood was cut for about an hour and 20 minutes - not good news for those working (or studying) from home. Still, that's better than an enforced power-cut in the middle of a gale.
This time two years ago:
London in verticals
London in verticals
This time three years ago:
Roadblock and railfreight
This time four years ago:
Sunny morning, Hyde Park and Kensington Gardens
This time five years ago:
Brentham Garden Suburb
This time six years ago:
Ahead of the opening of the second line of the Warsaw Metro
This time seven years ago:
Keep an eye on Ukraine...
This time eight years ago:
Płock by day, Płock by night
This time nine years ago:
Warning ahead of railway timetable change
This time 12 years ago:
Some thoughts on recycling
Roadblock and railfreight
This time four years ago:
Sunny morning, Hyde Park and Kensington Gardens
This time five years ago:
Brentham Garden Suburb
This time six years ago:
Ahead of the opening of the second line of the Warsaw Metro
This time seven years ago:
Keep an eye on Ukraine...
This time eight years ago:
Płock by day, Płock by night
This time nine years ago:
Warning ahead of railway timetable change
This time 12 years ago:
Some thoughts on recycling
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