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HelenaWojtczak 28 | 177  
12 Jan 2009 /  #1
There are a few videos on Youtube about wloszczowa station, but I cannot work out why. Here is one:

Why does it say Krakow Business Park on this one, and why in English?

When I watched this one below, I could just about make out that she was saying it was a very expensive station, but nobody was using it, is that that what she says and is that why it is famous?

Googling found this:

"Recently Wloszczowa has been the lucky recipient of a new train station. This station acts as the only stop in the Krakow-Warsaw express, the most popular train route in Poland. Of all towns in Poland, it was the tiny insignificant ‘shlepper’ town of Wloszczowa to be endowed with such a useless stop. No one leaves the train on this stop, and the express ride itself is too expensive for any Wloszczowians to use. To tell a Pole you are from Wloszczowa is now the punchline of a joke."

Puzzled Helena
peter_olsztyn 6 | 1,098  
12 Jan 2009 /  #2
There are a few videos on Youtube about wloszczowa station, but I cannot work out why.

Most famous train station in Włoszczowa. Its construction was lobbied by former deputy prime minister Przemysław Gosiewski who wanted express trains to stop in this small town which happened also to be his home town.

The only passenger train stop on the high-speed line
osiol 55 | 3,921  
12 Jan 2009 /  #3
It's not easy to imagine an equivalent to this bizarre situation. I tried imagining a London to Manchester express train that only stopped at London and Manchester, but with a brief additional stop at Leighton Buzzard, but even that's too big (over three times the population of Włoszczowa). The next thing that sprung to mind was Stoneybridge.

Any other examples of politicians getting their way with similarly ridiculous projects or analogies with other countries would be appreciated.
ArcticPaul 38 | 233  
12 Jan 2009 /  #4
I could see similar things happening in Southern Ireland a few years ago.
There were 8 lane super-highways that just stopped dead, or turned into a dirt track, when the European grant money ran out!

And they'd always stop in Irish equivalents of Włoszczowa!
Three men, two pigs and a wanted Serbian War Criminal living in a nearby cottage.

PS.
You should merge this thread with anything to do with the former Yugoslavia.
I have mentioned 'Serbia'.

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