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<div class="quoting">Quoting: FISZ, Post #7
Ha! Have you seen the trains in Szczecin? They are so old!</div>
Well, you should know something about the Polish railways here - it dosn`t make a difference what company were talking here about.
In many cases most - a large part of the trains the railway is using is 50 and 60 years old. Those trains are simply modernized. (let`s just say that I have some contacts on the railway  )
i.e. this train - the classic EN57 model - nicknamed by the railway people as the "toilet" :
is c.a. 50 years old - a wonderfull invention of Polish engeneers isn`t it. Today - a slightly modernized version of that train model is being used by the PKP Regional Railways, as well as metropolitan railways in various cities and other private companies.
The modernized version looks this way:
The modernized version of that moderized version looks this way - the PKP Regional Railways variant that isbeing courrently introduced:
and the Warsaw Metropolitan Railway variant that is in service since some time:
but it is the same train - the one on the first photo - if`s a kind of "pimp up my train" that the railways are doing here Why am I writing this - well I`m writing this cose that particular train model, unlike newer trains elseware, in the past 50 years didn`t had any single accident.
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