Railway & industrial heritage

Polish Greenways are linked to the British-Polish Partnership for Industrial and Railway Heritage, which seeks to protect and conserve industrial heritage.

Industrial heritage provides the opportunity for a new type of tourism - industrial heritage tourism, which today generates millions of euros for the economies of Western Europe. Unfortunately, industrial heritage in Poland is being destroyed at an alarming rate, often removed for metal recovery or stolen. The Partnership for Industrial and Railway Heritage helps Polish companies and voluntary groups concerned with the conservation and restoration of industrial heritage to develop demonstration projects, to build partnerships involving public, private and voluntary groups focused on conserving specific industrial heritage sites and using them as a basis for local and regional economic development. Each year, the Partnership organizes a national forum, which provides owners and operators of industrial heritage sites with the opportunity to exchange experience and lobby national and local government bodies to be more active in protecting Polish rail heritage.

Contact: Andrzej Goltz , Vice-president British-Polish Railway and Industrial Heritage Partnership, e-mail: goltz@goltz.pl; tel PL: +48 (0) 22 389 6515, tel. mob. 0048-502-530-206.