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Since the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, I have increasingly travelled to Poland to experience the scheduled steam service there. Unfortunately, the great times were already over here too and so I drove to the last strongholds such as Korsze, Elk, Kepno and of course Wolstyn. With the start of the summer timetable in 1991, steam operations in Poland were to have officially ended. It was all the more astonishing that even in July 1991 you could still see steam locomotives pulling regular trains. With the Ty42-1, Ty2-305 and Tkt48-173, the Jaworzyna Śląska railway depot still used two machines a day. They ran on the route from Jawor/Strzegom via Bolków to Marciszów and between Jaworzyna Śląska and Kamieniec Ząbkowicki. The Kłodzko railway depot also continued to use the Tkt48 or a Pt47. Let us now use this film to go back to an era that will never exist again.