THE RAILWAY WATER TOWERS RESOURCE IN WESTERN POLAND IN THE YEARS 1870-1965 VERSUS THE INTERNATIONAL RESOURCE

It has been intended to present international typological, formal and chronological relations of these types of structures in the context of the selected technical and technological solutions that would influence the emergence of architectural structures. Railway infrastructure used to develop both with reference to specific actions undertaken within the framework of activities of state administration as well as constituted the expression of universal needs and technological requirements. The essence of this analysis is to recognise which of these typologies can be referred to as functioning within the national resource and which within the international one.