| Summary: | This article focuses on several issues regarding functioning of transport services of subjugated King-dom of Poland during the important from both eco-nomic and political point of view period of 1860s. These would be a) some management personal nominations and structural changes; b) some ex-tremely important and specific budgets from 1860 and 1865. As a result of the study it became clear that tsarist authorities generally preferred the atti-tude which – in regards to both chiefs’ appointments of the local Polish transport services and the estab-lishing of road and water transport budgets – could be characterized by its considerable conservatism. In cases of the personnel chosen, only people who were completely trusted were selected; in financial matters, the relative scarcity of funds mostly limited in whole capacity the possible emergence of any broader concepts (with one exception for few parts of the post-January Uprising budget of 1865). In turn, the direction of institutional changes was characterized by large fluctuations of ideas prevailing among tsarist decisive factors. Significant uncertainty as to the further structure of local transport services was demonstrated by: a) the mere number of institutional re-evaluations, b) their obvious dependence on the general political situation, c) the visible opposition of the tendencies hidden behind these changes. This was the case in 1861, when the Warsaw-based Board of the 13th District of Communications was replaced by the Management of the 7th District of Communications. A similar situation took place in 1862 when the tsar's governor re-established the solely Polish Land and Water Transport Authority. Finally, the same fluctuation was observed in drastic institutional changes of 1867, when the Warsaw’s administrative authorities were finally renamed the Russian 11th Board of Communications.In any case, in the 1860s, numerous and far-reaching changes took place in formal Warsaw’s transport services, which - in the context of the final incorporation of Polish Board Land and Water Communications into the adminis-trative structures of the Russian Empire - led in the long run to the enormous civilization backwardness of Polish road system in the second half of the nine-teenth century.
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