Traditionally, we invited our fans to celebrate the Railwayman Day in Skieniewice Shed on the Saturday closest to this holiday (this year on 22^nd November). We prepared attractions for all our guest – tourists, as well as the retired employees of Skierniewice’s Shed. A part of the event was the exhibition of contemporary rolling stock – diesel engine class SM31-088 from PKP Cargo, catenary maintenance train of type PS.00-23 from PKP Energetyka and emergency service vehicle “Unimog” from PKP PLK.

At 12 o’clock a special event took place – battery shunter AEG 4184 from 1928 was presented for the first time to the public after its renovation sponsored and carried out by Warsaw Trams.

As each year, we were visited by the pupils of Elementary School № 4 and scouts.

Thanks to one of our visitor – the owner of YouTube channel Filmy Mariusza – those who could not visit us can have a glimpse at the events on this day.

In the afternoon a meeting for retired employees of the Shed took place.

On this day we were visited by 230 people, closing the 2014 tourist season with a total of 6100 visitors. Some of our guests took the opportunity to travel back home free of charge thanks to the special offer provided by Przewozy Regionalne. Catering was provided by Atmosfera pizza house.

A service for railwaymen’s benefit took place on Sunday, 23rd November at 12.30AM in St. Jacob’s Church in Skierniewice.

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On 25^th November fall the day of the patron saint of the railwaymen – St. Catherine of Alexandria. From this occasion we would like to invite our fans to visit the Skierniewice Shed during the Special Open Day on Saturday, 22^nd November, from 11.00AM to 2.00PM

Programme

• 11.00AM to 2.00PM – exhibition of the contemporary track repairs rolling stock, exhibition of railway traffic and safety devices
• 12.00AM to 12.45AM – presentation of the two new exhibits from the PARE collection
• Starting 1.30PM – meeting for retired railwaymen (private event).

Free admission!

We would like to remind that during this open day, due to the ongoing roof repairs, there will be no sightseeing of the roundhouse’s interior.

Catering for the visitors will be provided by Atmosfera pizza house.

Przewozy Regionalne has prepared a special deal for all the visitors of Skierniewice Engine Shed on that day. One can travel back on this day to his departure point without a charge after having the one way ticket stamped with the stamp of PARE (more info at the entrance to the Shed).

A service for railwaymen’s benefit will take place on Sunday, 23^rd November at 12.30AM in St. Jacob’s Church in Skierniewice.

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The collecting group: M. Balicka, J. Kurowska Ciechańska, A. Karczmarczyk – SKM , J. Kaźmierczak , P. Mierosławski, M. Moczulski, A. Paszke, W. Sitkiewicz – WKD.
Fot. G. Moczulski

During the two days of the 40^th collection at Old Powązki Cemetery, devoted to save the monuments of this necropolis, more than 245 thousand złotys was gathered. The collection was held by 250 volunteers –  6 of them were members of PARE and invited guests from SKM and Warsaw Commuter Railway (WKD). This collecting group was the most distinctive – each of the collectors was dressed in historical railway uniforms. The collection lasted from 10.00 o’clock till dusk on the All Saints Day and All Souls Day. Traditionally, one could find us by the restored grave of engineer Stanisław Wysocki, the builder of the Warsaw-Vienna railroad.

Collectors were visited by the President of the Committee of Powązki Restoration, J. Kisielewski.
Fot. J. Brykowska

Offerings were also collected to the money box by the grave of Jerzy Waldorff, the originator of the collection. Thanks to his efforts, over the 40 years more than 1300 historical graves were restored.

After the collection, Marek Moczulski and Maria Balicka were interviewed by the Radio RDC.

From 2007 PARE organizes on 2^nd November the walk on the route of graves of famous railroaders at Old Powązki Cemetery. This year we would like to visit the graves of people who contributed to the development of Warsaw-Vienna Railroad and famous railroad architects. Group meets by the gate of St. Honorata at 11AM. The guide will be dressed in historical railway uniform.

We are also taking part for the fifth time in the All Souls’ Day collection organized for 40 years by a Jerzy Waldorff’s Committee of Powązki Restoration. You can find us by the grave of engineer Stanisław Wysocki (catacomb alley) or by the grave of Władysław Stanisław Reymont. We will be accompanied by our collegues from SKM and Warsaw commuter railway. You can easily recognize us, as we will be aslo dressed in railway uniforms.

At last we finished the works by the replacement of old ties under the points № 128 in track № 59 – a main artery between the station and the turntable. During the works conducted in several stages, beginning from March, we removed the rotten ties and dirty ballast. Next we placed the new ties and fixed the part of the points back on their place. The purchase of new ties was possible thanks to the donation of 8000PLN offered by Skierniewice City Council.

In the meantime, it appeared that the joint track between the repaired points and the older double slip also required immediate intervention. We managed to complete the works with recycled materials and new track screws sponsored by company „Śrubena-Unia” from Żywiec.

Repairs of set of points were supported by

The ever growing PARE collection of rolling stock and museum exhibitions are prepared especially for the younger audience so we are happy to report that more and more school groups are visiting the Skierniewice Shed.

We were very fond of the record-breaking attendance during the September Open Day for Schools and yet another group of nearly 150 pupils from Lipce Reymontowskie Elementary School visited us on last Tuesday (21^st October). Young guests were not discouraged by rainy weather and eagerly took part in excursion around the Shed, listening to the guide with interest and even taking notes.

We would like to thank to our young fans and would like to encourage more schools to contact and visit us.

The 10th touristic season in Skierniewice Engine Shed has come to an end – all this year’s regular Open Days are past. During the last of those events, on sunny Saturday (4th October) we were visited by 180 guests – that gives a total of nearly 5700 visitors in the whole year. Yet, this is not the end of the special events in the Shed – we would like to invite you to the upcoming Railwayman Day.

In the meantime, the Shed will not fall into the winter sleep – there is still plenty of work to be done by the points and the beer refrigerator car. We also need to clean up the yard behind the roundhouse after the roof repairs and prepare ourselves for the autumn battle with leafs.