LOTOS Kolej is a Polish

Poland

Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian exclave, to the north...

 rail company operating as a part of Grupa LOTOS

Grupa LOTOS

Grupa LOTOS S.A. is a vertically integrated oil concern from Poland based in Gdańsk. The company is listed in the Polish index WIG 20. Its main activity branches are: crude oil production, refining and marketing of oil products....

 JSC. Lotos Kolej is responsible for transporting Lotos Group products and delivering petrol for Rafineria Gdańska.

The company precedesor, Zakład Transportu Kolejowego Rafinerii Gdańskiej operated since March 20 2002.
Since 2003 the company has the license to transport petrol along all PKP PLK

PKP PLK

PKP, Polskie Linie Kolejowe is a company of the PKP Group and is responsible for maintenance of rail tracks, conducting the trains across country, scheduling train timetables and management of railway land....

 lines and is operating outside the Tricity, operating refineries in Czechowice-Dziedzice

Czechowice-Dziedzice

Czechowice-Dziedzice is a town in Bielsko County, Silesian Voivodeship, southern Poland with 34,867 inhabitants . It lies on the northeastern edge of the historical region of Cieszyn Silesia...

, Jasło and Gorlice

Gorlice

Gorlice is a city and an urban municipality in south eastern Poland with around 29,500 inhabitants . It is situated south east of Kraków and south of Tarnów between Jasło and Nowy Sącz in the Lesser Poland Voivodeship , previously in Nowy Sącz Voivodeship...

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Rails and rolling stock

The company manages over 80 km. of track on the refinery

Refinery

A refinery is a production facility composed of a group of chemical engineering unit processes and unit operations refining certain materials or converting raw material into products of value.-Types of refineries:Different types of refineries are as follows:...

's property. The main locomotives used by the company are ST43

PKP class ST43

ST43 is the name for a Romanian diesel locomotive, produced by Electroputere, exported to and operating in Poland. It was made for the purpose of heavy transport.-History:...

, SM42

PKP class SM42

-Introduction:The technical documentation for this locomotive was produced in 1961 at the Poznań Research Centre for Rail Vehicles, and the production was given over to the Chrzanów Locomotive Factory ...

 and SM48

PKP class SM48

SM48 is the name for class of Soviet diesel locomotives operating in Poland for PKP. The original designation was ТЭМ2 , and was the Soviet-built version of the ALCO RSD-1.-History:...

. Lotos Kolej uses many different kinds of oil tankers for transporting products of the Lotos Group.

See also

• Transportation in Poland
• List of railway companies
• Polish locomotives designation
• PKP locomotives