On 17^th May 2014 the Railway Night of Museums will take place for a fifth time in Rogów and Skierniewice. It is the one-a-year opportunity to visit at night both the Skierniewice Engine Shed (Łowicka Street 1, Skierniewice) and the Museum of Rogów – Rawa – Biała Narrow Gauge Railway (Dworcowa Street 37, Rogów). In the night scenery it will be possible to learn a bit about the railway history and take unique photos.

This year’s Railway Night of Museums take place under the honorable auspices of Mr Zbigniew Klepacki – Undersecretary of Ministry of Infrastructure and Development and Mr Witold Stępień – Marshal of the Łódź Voivodeship.

Many attractions await visitors in Skierniewice (admission hours: 20.00 till midnight). Historical buildings of the engine shed hides many historic engines and railway cars from 19^th and early 20^th century. Specially for this occasion we have prepared illuminated exhibition of the rolling stock from PARE collection. You can also visit the exhibition of railway safety devices and signal box equipment, railway workshop, historic railway smithy and other temporary exhibitions. Tired visitors can try delicious grilled dishes, served by Atmosfera pizza house. We encourage the visitors to try out other attractions awaiting that night in Skierniewice: Prymasowski Palace, Park Gate, City House of Culture, Regional Academy of Entrepreneurship, History Chamber of Skierniewice, City Library. Feel free to take the free of charge trip to those places by a special night busses .

In Rogów (admission hours between 18.30 and 22.30) visitors will be able to see the historic narrow-gauge railway station, smithy and workshops of Rogów – Rawa – Biała Railway. The visit in Rogów will end with a narrow-gauge train trip on route Rogów – Jeżów – Rogów. Detailed information regarding the trip and seats reservation are available at www.kolejrogowska.pl.

Due to the planned end of the events in late night hours, we recommend taking warm clothes.

Attention: unfortunately, this year there will be no free of charge special trains to Skierniewice and Rogów. Nevertheless, the trip is  still possible on special rules with regular trains of PKP Intercity and Przewozy Regionalne . Anyone, who travels this day to Skierniewice and Rogów can have his one-way ticket stamped with “Railway Night of Museums” stamps, which allows free of charge return trip with the train of the same operator. Below are the details of special offers of each of the operators:

PKP Intercity

Anyone, who travels on 17^th May to Skierniewice and Rogów with PKP Intercity train, can travel back free of charge to his departure point on the territory of Poland using his one-way ticket with “Railway Night of Museums” stamp with any train of PKP IC. The stamp can be obtained in Skierniewice (Engine Shed, Łowicka Street 1) and in Rogów (Rogów Towarowy narrow-gauge railway station, Dworcowa Street 37). On 17^th May selected TLK trains will take additional stop ta Rogów Railway Station.

Przewozy Regionalne

Anyone, who travels on 17^th May to Skierniewice and Rogów with PKP Intercity train, can travel back free of charge to his departure point on the area of Łódź and Silesian Voivodship (latter in the direction Częstochowa)  using his one-way ticket with “Railway Night of Museums” stamp with any train of Przewozy Regionalne. The stamp can be obtained in Skierniewice (Engine Shed, Łowicka Street 1) and in Rogów (Rogów Towarowy narrow-gauge railway station, Dworcowa Street 37).

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