Heritage route
Bieszczady Forest Railway
Majdan → Balnica · Poland
Bieszczady Forest Railway in pictures
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- Distance
- 9 km
- Fastest time
- ≈ 45 min
- Average speed
- 12 km/h
- Top speed
- 20 km/h
- Operator
- Bieszczadzka Kolejka Leśna Foundation
- Train
- Px48 steam locomotive · Lyd2 diesel locomotive
- Countries
- Poland
- In service since
- 1898
- Riders per year
- ≈ 168k
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
Poland’s highest narrow-gauge line, a former logging railway that now carries over 150,000 riders a year into the Bieszczady wilderness.
How this line was checked
- Line drawn from OpenStreetMap relation 7615388 — the same nodes OpenStreetMap holds for this railway, thinned to within under 25 m of them
- Checked against OpenStreetMap: the whole line lies on real track, a median 2 m from it
- Checked against the running timetable via Transitous: our line sits 0.2 km from the shape of BKL
- Wikipedia has an article for this line
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