We have good news for tourist badge collectors. A special badge for the 27th International Narrow Gauge Railway Rally was issued recently.
The badge will be available during the Rally, October 12th-15th, at Żnin County Railway station and at the Museum of Narrow Gauge Railway in Wenecja.
Tourist badges of the Pałuki Museum branches and Żnin County Railway will also be available.
Remember that during the Rally special postcards and stamps will also be available, read more: https://zlotkolei.pl/pl/788/lokomotywa-hf50b-na-zninskim-zlocie/
The Polish Post issued special stamps for the 27th International Narrow Gauge Railway Rally. The stamps feature three stem engines which will participate in the event: Merapi, Borsig and Px-38 Leon. Besides, special postcards have been issued. They can be sent during the Rally by special railway postal service which is launched for the event. The special postal service from Gąsawa to Żnin will be pulled by O&K staem engine (departure from Gąsawa at 1:00 PM).
The stamps and postcards are available at the Żnin station and at the Narrow Gauge Railway Museum in Wenecja.
During the trip to Hel you will see HF50B Petera Erka Engine, which can also be seen at the main part of the Rally.
HF50B Engine has a 50 kM diesel engine. Due to its construction it was also called ‘the empty engine’. In 1942 it was entered under KML4 in the list of military engine, as a 60-KM engine. It was also manufactured after the War between 1941-1958. 600 engines of this type were manufactured. They were made as 600 mm and 750 mm gauge by Deutz, Diema, Gmeinder, Orenstein & Koppel, Schöma i Windhoff. HF50B was also manufactured in Spain, under a licence by, Metalúrgica de San Martin (MSM).
Registration for the Hel-Józefowo and Białośliwie-Wysoka trips will last until 2 October 2017, 12:00 hrs. You must pay by 3 October 2017 (the account of Muzeum Ziemi Pałuckiej must be credited by this date).
Sign here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfhxjluWQXtVX8pFLu9YYMpNy9-KOZ0na5dZMsZNEdypZ1otg/viewform
More information about the trips: https://zlotkolei.pl/pl/636/ruszyly-zapisy-na-wycieczki/
Remember that you must book and pay for accommodation in Hel on your own.