Today, 22 September, is World Car-Free Day. Koleje Mazowieckie, as in past years, made today a ticket-free day, and so it behoves me to make the most of it. I chose to go by train from Chynów to Góra Kalwaria and back, changing at Ustanówek both ways.
I wrote in May about the work carried out at Góra Kalwaria and Czachówek Wschodni, raising the platforms at both stations to allow modern rolling stock to serve them. Having photographed Czachówek Wschodni, I thought I'd take the opportunity to snap Góra Kalwaria too. Trains from Warsaw to Góra Kalwaria swing off the main Radom line south of Ustanówek, then slow down to 40km/h for the seven kilometres to Góra Kalwaria. The contrast between the fully modernised Radom line and the Łuków-Skierniewice line is quite a shock. Now, the latter line is almost entirely goods-only with only the short stretch between Czachówek and Góra Kalwaria carrying passenger services.
Below: the platform at Góra Kalwaria has always been too short for a full-length train; here's a two-unit set of Flirts (ten carriages in total). To ensure no one steps off onto the tracks, the conductor passes through the rear unit of five carriages as the train approaches Ustanówek, asking passengers for Czachówek Południowy and Góra Kalwaria to move into the front five carriages.
Two stops on, I alight at Ustanówek, change platforms, and shortly my train to Chynów arrives. All four trains on time, again.
This time two years ago
Into darkness
This time five years ago:
Summer's end
This time six years ago:
In which I lose a lot of data from my old laptop
This time seven years ago:
Konin - town of aluminium, electricity and coal
This time ten years ago:
Car-free day falls on a Sunday
This time 11 years ago:
Vistula at record low level
This time 14 years ago:
Car-free day? Warsaw's roads busier than ever
This time 15 years ago:
The shape of equinox
This time 16 years ago:
Potato harvest time in Jeziorki
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