Heritage route
Upper Silesian Narrow Gauge
Bytom → Miasteczko Śląskie · Poland
View on the map →Wikipedia ↗Stations · 9
Running since 1853 — the world’s oldest continuously operating narrow gauge: 785 mm industrial track turned heritage line across the Silesian coalfield.
Stations
- 0 kmBytom Wąskotorowy
- 2 kmBytom Karb Wąskotorowy
- 7 kmDąbrowa Miejska
- 8 kmSucha Góra
- 11 kmTarnowskie Góry Kopalnia Srebra
- 13 kmTarnowskie Góry Wąskotorowe
- 17 kmLasowice Zalew
- 19 kmMiasteczko Śląskie Zalew
- 21 kmMiasteczko Śląskie Wąskotorowe
The stations OpenStreetMap lists for this service, in order, with the distance along the line as drawn here. A train may skip some of them.
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
- Wikipedia has an article for this line
- See for yourself: open this line on the map with OpenStreetMap's own railway drawn underneath it
Questions and answers
How long is the Upper Silesian Narrow Gauge?
The Upper Silesian Narrow Gauge runs 21 km from Bytom to Miasteczko Śląskie.
How long does the Upper Silesian Narrow Gauge take?
The fastest scheduled journey is ~1 h 10 min for the 21 km. That is an average of 18 km/h end to end. The line's top service speed is 30 km/h.
Who runs the Upper Silesian Narrow Gauge?
SGKW, with Lxd2 diesel, heritage cars.
How old is the Upper Silesian Narrow Gauge?
The line has been in service since 1853. That is the year the atlas dates it from: for a modern brand running over an older railway, it is the railway's date, not the brand's.
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