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An episode of the film series "Ekspertyza", produced by the TVP Historia channel in cooperation with #IPN and the Institute of Forensic Research in Krakow. The documentary entitled "Railway Disaster near Otłoczyn" was produced in 2021. On August 19, 1980, in the early morning hours, two trains collided near Otłoczyn (Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship). A freight train traveling from Chojnice, despite the stop signal, entered the track on which a passenger train from Toruń Główny to Łódź Kaliska was approaching from the opposite direction. 67 people died. It was the largest rail disaster in the Polish People's Republic. #railwaydisaster #PKP #PRL #trains #history #TVPHistory #Institute of National Remembrance