Derailment Stalls Warsaw-Łódź Line

18th June 2008

A derailed freight train spoiled what was to have been the first day of high-speed travel between Poland’s two largest cities on Tuesday.

A derailed freight train spoiled what was to have been the first day of high-speed travel between Poland’s two largest cities on Tuesday. The Polish State Railways (PKP) have been upgrading the line between Warsaw and Łódź over the past several months, and trains were to begin travelling the 140-kilometre route in 88 minutes, bringing them back to pre-World War II steam-locomotive standards after years of neglect. Instead the derailment, in which nobody was hurt, slowed travel down to four hours and more as trains were shunted to auxiliary lines thr ...