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The narrow-gauge railway

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The narrow-gauge railway (750 mm track gauge, steam traction) was used as a local, auxiliary transportation that carried products and people. The first section of the railroad was established between the Garbów Sugar-Refinery and the Wąwolnica Railway Station (as of 1925 called Nałęczów) and was 12 km long. In the mid 1920s the sections toward Bogucin and Kurów were built. The section connecting the sugar-refinery with Bogucin had another three sections added to it, leading to: the sand mine near the village of Marynka, to the distillery and the mill in Garbów, and the offshoot toward the vicinity of the village of Leśce. Since 1916 another narrow-gauge railway with the same gauge track reached the Wąwolnica Station, the present Nadwiślańska Narrow-Gauge Railway. However, because the two narrow-gauge railroads were located on the opposite sides of the Nadwiślańska Railway line and were not permanently connected, the rolling stock exchange was carried out with the help of jetties temporarily placed across the normal track. Unfortunately, the railway network of the Garbów Sugar-Refinery was liquidated in the 1970s. Nowadays, there are still many traces of the narrow-gauge railway visible in many places, mostly embankments and excavations. One of the best-preserved fragments is the embankment along Route 17 between Markuszów and Zagrody. At the same route in Bogucin, you can see the former railway station (at present, an inn) with the loading ramp. A remnant of the former loading ramp is also located in the vicinity of the Palace in Bronice. The railroad switch to the villages of Nałęczów and Józefów (near Kurów) was located in Olszowiec, where an operator’s booth was placed. The operator had a phone connection between the Nałęczów Station and the sugar-refinery, and it was his responsibility that the trains pass each other by safely, avoiding collision. The nearby Olszowiecki Creek, formerly running parallel to the railway tracks, facilitated pumping water into steam locomotive’s water tanks.

 

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