Iwanowo light railway explained

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]

History

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]

Route

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:

Locomotives

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.

See also

References

  1. Alfred B. Gottwaldt with contributions by Paul Dost: Heeres-Feldbahnen: Bau und Einsatz der militärischen Schmalspurbahnen in 2 Weltkriegen. P. 88.
  2. Kevin D. Stubbs and Ronald J. Grele: Race to the Front: The Materiel Foundations of Coalition Strategy in the Great War. Greenwood Publishing Group, 2002, p. 176.
  3. General der Eisenbahntruppen: Feldbahn Janow Poleski - Iwaczewicze. Bundesarchiv BArch RH 66.
  4. Martin Brückmann: Pripet-Polessie – Das Bild einer polnischen Ostraumlandschaft. Supplementary issue No. 237 to „Petermanns Mitteilungen“. Verlag Justus Perthes, Gotha, 1039.
  5. [:File:Lubiašoŭ. Любяшоў (1916).jpg|Feldbahnzug Iwananowo–Ljubiat]

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