Luxtorpeda
Sign in to saveLuxtorpeda was the colloquial name of a famous Polish railcar from the 1930s, operating express services primarily from Kraków to other Polish cities.
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- Instance of
- rolling stock class
- Operator
- Polish State Railways
- Manufacturer
- Fablok
- Image
- Luxtorpeda Austro-Daimler Krakow 1930.jpg
- Speed
- 115
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Luxtorpeda was the colloquial name of a famous Polish railcar from the 1930s, operating express services primarily from Kraków to other Polish cities.
==History== In April 1933, Austrian company Austro-Daimler demonstrated their new railcar for long-distance express connections, to PKP. During one of the demonstration runs, between Warsaw and Skierniewice, the railcar reached speed about . The railcar was leased and later purchased by PKP, further five units were ordered from Fablok who were to build them under Austrian licence but with various improvements.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Luxtorpeda” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.