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Initially, 5–6-ton wagons were pulled by horses. In 1900 a 750 mm railroad was built between Zagłoba, the farm in
Brzozowa and the station in Kępa Chotecka. Until 1914 the Kleniewski family systematically extended the railroad: in 1911 a section Zagłoba-Wymysłwów with a branch line Szczekarków - Wilków - Vistula bank was created. Initially, the railway was operated by horses (the rolling stock consisted of 10 wagons, 2 platforms and several horses), and the first steam locomotives were purchased in 1912.
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Refinery Railway - there was a 750 mm narrow gauge network north of the Nałęczów station that belonged to the Garbów Sugar Refinery, which also had connections with the normal gauge network at this station. Despite this, and despite the same track gauge, the sugar factory's railroad
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In 1990 the railroad employed 253 workers. After 1989 freight and passenger transport began to fall sharply. In 1991 passenger trains to
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documents in the 1920s as the "Nałęczów-Opole line with the
Karczmiska-Rybaki branch", scheduled passenger trains ran only on the Wąwolnica/Nałęczów-Opole route; they were operated partially by diesel cars. There were also tourist trains on the route Piotrawin - Nałęczów. In 1938 the name "Nałęczów
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Kolomenskoe Steam Locomotive Factory in Russia, which were known as "kolomyyke" or "samovarka" and ran until the 1950s. In the 1920s larger 8- and 15-ton cars were also imported, and a steam locomotive was added in the following decade,
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Alongside the PKP lines, in the interwar period, the Opole Sugar
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Kleniewski, a local landowner and industrialist, owner of the Zagłoba sugar factory was the initiator of the construction of railroads in the area. In the years 1892-1893 a provisional railroad with wooden rails operated for a short time between the Polanówka farmstead and the sugar factory.
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After the war the PKP took over the last section belonging to the
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Vistula Narrow Gauge which ran there from the opposite side. Rolling stock was exchanged between the two narrow gauge railroads using platforms made of movable spans, which were temporarily placed across the normal gauge line.
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this time a domestically manufactured 40-ton Px29. The Kleniewski family continued to invest in the railroad, purchasing two locomotives. In the interwar period they added further sections of track, to Opole Lubelskie and Piotrawin.
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sugar lines. Moreover, another line, Szczekarków-Wilków-Vistula bank, existed (a fragment to the Vistula was later dismantled), as well as a private horse-drawn railroad, Niezabitów-Łubki, probably dismantled shortly after
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After WWI the railroad - 54 km in total - was taken over by the Ministry of Railways, later part of it returned into private hands so that by 1928 43 km were state owned. The railroad was listed in the
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Lublin Sugar Refinery Railway - one of the narrow-gauge lines of the Lublin Sugar Refinery was located east of Nałęczów, near Sadurki station which was later operated by Garbów Sugar Refinery
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commercial railroad - probably 750 mm gauge, built in 1940/41, planned to connect with the Vistula Narrow Gauge, dismantled by the local population immediately after the war (1944/45).
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Opole Sugar Refinery - Niezdów - Łaziska - Janiszów - Piotrawin (Vistula shore)
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A20D-P series Bxhpi passenger coaches manufactured by FAUR.
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1053:Narrow Gauge Railway Museum in Sochaczew
43:This article includes a list of general
532:Nadwiślańska wąskotorówka zaczyna sezon
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417:Łaziska - Łaziska Średnie Farm
414:by-pass of the village Niezdów
153:View of the Polanówka station.
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399:Opole Sugar Refinery - Świdno
303:Rozalin - Opole Narrow Gauge
888:Struga Warszawska – Izabelin
682:Białowieża Forest (Hajnówka)
145:Origins - the sugar railroad
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486:"History of the railroad"
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762:Stargardzka
672:/ Nałęczów)
631:Piaseczno (
600:Operational
530:A. Kisiel:
62:introducing
1073:Categories
1016:Huta Pokój
883:Wrocławska
853:Ostrołęcka
848:Opalenicka
823:Jarocińska
607:Bieszczady
496:2021-12-20
470:References
45:references
878:Wieluńska
843:Nasielska
692:Sochaczew
677:Przeworsk
668:Vistula (
642:Nadmorska
640:Seaside (
326:available
183:Wąwolnica
164:Piotrawin
134:Poniatowa
1025:Military
924:Krośnice
893:Zagnańsk
658:Koszalin
646:Gryficka
633:Grójecka
490:Archived
187:Nałęczów
1046:Museums
919:Cichowo
914:Chorzów
838:Marecka
813:Gdańska
788:Bialska
709:Średzka
707:Środa (
702:Śmigiel
617:Gniezno
434:Bełżyce
343:village
263:Rogalów
239:Wrocław
235:Vistula
223:Germans
219:Bełżyce
171:Vistula
140:History
58:improve
858:Pionki
833:Lublin
808:Garbów
778:Balkan
771:Lifted
740:Closed
731:Żuławy
653:Kalisz
127:Lublin
123:Dęblin
118:Puławy
47:, but
1037:Toruń
721:Wigry
687:Rogów
663:Mława
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114:Opole
726:Żnin
254:Lxd2
227:Jews
116:and
100:The
612:Ełk
195:PKP
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