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.

We would like to invite our fans to the last in this year Open Day in Skieniewice Engine Shed on 4^th October.

As always, feel free to visit our rolling stock collection, the old railway workshop and smithy and the interactive exhibition of railway signaling and traffic safety devices. Catering will be provided by Atmosfera pizza house.

We also encourage you to visit the new exhibition of photographs from “Railway in lens” competition.

Guided tours will start every hour at 11.00AM, 12.00AM, 1.00PM and 2.00PM

Free admission.

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