Bieszczady Forest Railway

Bieszczady Forest Railway is a 750 mm narrow gauge railway built in a sparsely populated, forest region of Bieszczady Mountains. Construction commenced at the end of 19th century and completed before the World War I. It stopped a regular traffic in 1994. Nowadays, a part of the railway is utilized as a tourist attraction. Trains run regularly on weekends from the beginning of May till October. In July and August also on weekdays.

A construction of a narrow-gauge railway in Bieszczady mountains started in 1890, when Galicia was under Austro-Hungarian rule. Its main purpose was to make easier forest exploitation, by linking a heart of Bieszczady with standard-gauge First Hungarian-Galician Railway in Nowy Łupków. The first line, 25 km long, led from Nowy Łupków eastwards to Cisna, mostly along Solinka river valley, and was opened on 21 January 1898. The gauge initially was 760 mm. The railway was operated by kkStB, and there ran two pairs of mixed trains and a number of timber trains daily. In 1900-1909 there were built further private forest extensions from Cisna towards Kalnica, Beskid and Roztoki Górne.

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