OverviewRailway engineering structures in Silesia

A working inventory of lines, bridges, tunnels, stations and depots in Lower and Upper Silesia, with construction dates, dimensions and present condition. Records are numbered and cross-referenced; figures are quoted as published.

Lines

• LN-01

  Silesian Mountain Railway

  Wrocław Świebodzki – Wałbrzych – Jelenia Góra – Zgorzelec

• LN-02

  Jelenia Góra – Żagań

  via Pilchowice, Wleń, Lwówek Śląski and Zebrzydowa

• LN-03

  Upper Silesian Narrow Gauge Railway

  Górnośląskie Koleje Wąskotorowe

• LN-04

  Lower Silesian–Mark Railway

  Berlin – Kohlfurt (Węgliniec) – Bolesławiec – Wrocław

Scope and method

The inventory covers the historic province of Silesia within the present Polish voivodeships of Lower Silesia, Opole and Silesia. A record is created for a discrete piece of railway engineering with its own construction history. Scenic stretches of line, however photogenic, do not get records; the structures on them do.

Every dimension on this site is taken from published technical or historical literature and is attributed on the references page. Where sources disagree the figure from the more recent technical account is used and the disagreement is noted in the record. Measurements taken on site by the compiler are marked as such, and there are very few of them.

Using the inventory

• The gazetteer lists every record in one sortable table.
• The chronology gives the dated events in order, which is the fastest way to see how the network was actually assembled.
• Record keys are stable. LN- is a line, ST- a structure, SI- a site.