Iwacewice–Iwanowo–Kamien-Koczirsk | |
Linelength: | ca 170km (110miles) |
The Iwanowo light railway was an approximately 170km (110miles) long military light railway with a track gauge of from Ivatsevichy via Iwanowo to Kamin-Kashyrskyi with two branch lines to the area west of Pinsk.[1] [2]
The light railway with a gauge of was laid during World War I and used for mixed passenger and freight transport until Second World War.[3]
The line with a cumulative length of 170km (110miles) crossed Polish marsh Polesia in a north-south direction along the early historic Vilnius-Lviv trade route and near the Lviv-Drohiczyn-Slonim (Wolkowysk)-Vilnius mainline. The mainline had been planned to run on a chain of dry sandy islands, when the light railway was being built.[4]
During the World War I, at least the Iwanovo-Lyubeshiv had been completed by August 1916.[5]
In 1939 there were the following stations and connections:
At least one of the steam locomotives was built by Borsig in 1919 and delivered to Poland by the Railway Replacement Park Sperenberg, where it was given the Reichsbahn number 99 1563 after the German invasion.