Se pare că în Polonia există (cel puțin?) un tren regio tras de aburoase, la Wolsztyn. Nu este un tren turistic.






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For those wondering - the reason these trains still run is mostly because while Electrification went quite smoothly and fast in Poland, switching non-electrified lines to diesel traction did not. For a long time coal was cheap and diesel fuel was relatively expensive here,  and whatever money the communist government had to spent on railways went to electrification and diesliefication of Intercity services, and local services stayed steam-hauled on many lines. Fewer and fewer, but a few places survived until 90's. After the fall of communism rail transport was extremely underinvested, and quite a few lines were closed unfortunately. It wouldn't be until mid 2000's and us joining EU that situation would improve. While other surviving steam-engine depots were either shut down or converted for diesel operations, Wolsztyn remained so long that it basically stopped being obsolete and started being heritage and tourist attraction.
Still there was a period that these trains were not running for a few years, but combination of enthusiast pressure and some donations allowed for the service to be reinstated.

https://hackaday.com/2023/12/06/the-deer ... -trains/

Polish-made Newag electric passenger trains have been found to give errors when serviced by non-Newag workshops

https://www.404media.co/polish-hackers-r ... ng-them/

The train’s manufacturer is now threatening to sue the hackers who were hired by the independent repair company to fix it.

The fallout from the situation is currently roiling Polish infrastructure circles and the repair world, with the manufacturer of those trains denying bricking the trains despite ample evidence to the contrary. The manufacturer is also now demanding that the repaired trains immediately be removed from service because they have been “hacked,” and thus might now be unsafe, a claim they also cannot substantiate.

The situation is a heavy machinery example of something that happens across most categories of electronics, from phones, laptops, health devices, and wearables to tractors and, apparently, trains. In this case, NEWAG, the manufacturer of the Impuls family of trains, put code in the train’s control systems that prevented them from running if a GPS tracker detected that it spent a certain number of days in an independent repair company’s maintenance center, and also prevented it from running if certain components had been replaced without a manufacturer-approved serial number.

Newag s-ar putea sa aiba probleme MARI de tot cu UE daca chiar se adevereste cazul, ca mai toate EMU-rile lor sunt cumparate din fondurile UE. O chestie de genul asta poate sa duca la un embargo la nivel European pentru ei, ceea ce i-ar falimenta cu totul.