Martin HoffmannWe’re a little late,* but we’re already Toruń.**
* We got stuck on the previous stop of Solec Kujawski for fifteen minutes or so.
** I’m sorry.
Toruń is as far as I will go today. The main station is on the wrong side of the river, though, so would involve a twenty minute walk. Or, if you are lazy and/or booked yourself a room right behind Toruń Miasto station, you could take this suspiciously familiar looking thing for two minutes.
Toruń strikes me as worth spending a bit more time at then arriving after night fall and leaving after breakfast. Very pretty old town with lots and lots of churches.
It is also the birthplace of one Nicolaus Copernicus, inventor of the quantity theory of money (and maybe some other things).
Good morning! Before we continue our journey east, here’s the crossing of the river Wisła which was hidden in the dark last night.
One thing that is cool about eastern Europe is that everyone used the same basic signalling system. So I can tell you that we will be leaving with 40 then line speed without knowing Polish rules.
波鉄 (Hatetsu)@partim In the background, an underpass that *used to be* double-track, but there was no room to maintain that with electrification, so now it's a tiny single track section on an otherwise doubled line
@HaTetsu Ah, I was wondering. Makes sense.
@HaTetsu Although, looking aerial imagery, it seems they could have just cut it open and put a bridge for the street up top. Or were there buildings there previously?
@partim They could have, but in the mad rush to electrify as much of Poland's network as possible after the 70s oil crisis, such works were judged too slow and expensive