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I don’t know even how to start. … not because I don’t know what to write but just because there are so many photos from this location that I took. So many buildings I visited that now it’s a bit hard to keep just a logical narration. But I’ll try to do my best.
First of all you remember maybe a story about the library, archive, laboratory ? Well if so … this is a part of the story. The industrial complex. Here I will just give you a sneak peek of the best photos I took. Rest can be found on my flicrk/facebook profiles.
The repair facilities
The industrial repairing complex was established somewhere in 1870 in one of the cities in Poland. It’s first role was to repair different kind of trains and railway vehicles. In the peak moment there was something like 5k or more people working in different repair halls. The terrain is enormous.
I knew from a long time that the facilities started to have some financial problems. Bad management led to suspending the activity and the lack of maintenance led to decay. Now the complex is in liquidation and the bankruptcy trustee is trying to get as much money as possible from the buildings. Removing old installation, machines. Now after one year of activity they are slowly starting to remove all valuable that is left.
But first things first.
I have been vising this location many times during last year. First the building were full of different machines. In some case access to some parts of the complex was impossible at some period of time and because of that some buildings are in better condition. Its still an active place and a visit for a full day is not enough.
So what do we have here:
The grate tall hall in which they used to dismantle locomotives. Their engines, gear boxes, alternators, and other parts were moved to other halls in the complex.
The hall was big and allowed many locomotives to be dismantled at the same time.
Somewhere on the other side was the oldest of the buildings. Here the engines were repaired. Not much is left from the infrastructure here because this one was really close to the fence and different scrap collectors could break in.
Even now scrap metal collectors try to enter and remove any kind of metal that is still available for them. The security doesn’t care here that much anymore. There is not that much left anyway.
When the first hall was big and enormous this one is just … antique. All those pillars supporting the roof.
What I liked most is the color of the walls and different stairs to the top floor of the hall.
There were also many offices here. Bathrooms, changing rooms for workers. Maybe those are not that much divested as the main halls
But the best that you could see was in the middle of the industrial complex. One big hall in which they used to repair diesel locomotives. It was used till the same end. It was really hard to get in and at that point when I have seen it for the first time was full of all the goods you could think of. And now … this is just a glimpse of its greatness.
The hall was composed of … 3 regions. Office part (not covered here – maybe I’ll make a separate post once, workshops and big dismantling part.
So … the first one I saw was the Big dismantling part:
Just enormous in size. You could put 5 football fields in this one with ease. All this machines, part on the floor.
All was in such condition as if they were hoping to turn it back on just within days
And then there was a workshop part. Here it became a bit tricky. Someone noticed the potential and wanted to get some money out from those machines.
Also enormous in size (length). The workshops speeded for almost one kilometer.
And here … there were all the goods:
Someone started to collect all the valuable things …
Some machines were used till the late end of the factory/repair facilities
….
So this is just a glimpse. If you want more you would have to dig into my facebook fanpage or flickr profile. There is still a lot to cover and still a lot of photos that need to be developed and posted.
First of all you remember maybe a story about the library, archive, laboratory ? Well if so … this is a part of the story. The industrial complex. Here I will just give you a sneak peek of the best photos I took. Rest can be found on my flicrk/facebook profiles.
The repair facilities
The industrial repairing complex was established somewhere in 1870 in one of the cities in Poland. It’s first role was to repair different kind of trains and railway vehicles. In the peak moment there was something like 5k or more people working in different repair halls. The terrain is enormous.
I knew from a long time that the facilities started to have some financial problems. Bad management led to suspending the activity and the lack of maintenance led to decay. Now the complex is in liquidation and the bankruptcy trustee is trying to get as much money as possible from the buildings. Removing old installation, machines. Now after one year of activity they are slowly starting to remove all valuable that is left.
But first things first.
I have been vising this location many times during last year. First the building were full of different machines. In some case access to some parts of the complex was impossible at some period of time and because of that some buildings are in better condition. Its still an active place and a visit for a full day is not enough.
So what do we have here:
The grate tall hall in which they used to dismantle locomotives. Their engines, gear boxes, alternators, and other parts were moved to other halls in the complex.
The hall was big and allowed many locomotives to be dismantled at the same time.
Somewhere on the other side was the oldest of the buildings. Here the engines were repaired. Not much is left from the infrastructure here because this one was really close to the fence and different scrap collectors could break in.
Even now scrap metal collectors try to enter and remove any kind of metal that is still available for them. The security doesn’t care here that much anymore. There is not that much left anyway.
When the first hall was big and enormous this one is just … antique. All those pillars supporting the roof.
What I liked most is the color of the walls and different stairs to the top floor of the hall.
There were also many offices here. Bathrooms, changing rooms for workers. Maybe those are not that much divested as the main halls
But the best that you could see was in the middle of the industrial complex. One big hall in which they used to repair diesel locomotives. It was used till the same end. It was really hard to get in and at that point when I have seen it for the first time was full of all the goods you could think of. And now … this is just a glimpse of its greatness.
The hall was composed of … 3 regions. Office part (not covered here – maybe I’ll make a separate post once, workshops and big dismantling part.
So … the first one I saw was the Big dismantling part:
Just enormous in size. You could put 5 football fields in this one with ease. All this machines, part on the floor.
All was in such condition as if they were hoping to turn it back on just within days
And then there was a workshop part. Here it became a bit tricky. Someone noticed the potential and wanted to get some money out from those machines.
Also enormous in size (length). The workshops speeded for almost one kilometer.
And here … there were all the goods:
Someone started to collect all the valuable things …
Some machines were used till the late end of the factory/repair facilities
….
So this is just a glimpse. If you want more you would have to dig into my facebook fanpage or flickr profile. There is still a lot to cover and still a lot of photos that need to be developed and posted.
