Heritage route
Upper Silesian Narrow Gauge
Bytom → Miasteczko Śląskie · Poland
Upper Silesian Narrow Gauge in pictures
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- Distance
- 21 km
- Fastest time
- ~1 h 10 min
- Average speed
- 18 km/h
- Top speed
- 30 km/h
- Operator
- SGKW
- Train
- Lxd2 diesel · heritage cars
- Countries
- Poland
- In service since
- 1853
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
Running since 1853 — the world’s oldest continuously operating narrow gauge: 785 mm industrial track turned heritage line across the Silesian coalfield.
How this line was checked
- Line drawn from OpenStreetMap relation 370489 — 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 5 m from it
- Checked against the running timetable via ÖBB Scotty: our line sits 1.8 km from the shape of KS 40303 (Zug-Nr. 40303)
- Wikipedia has an article for this line
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