INDEX A Bordziłowski, Jerzy 233 Agreement Regarding Polish- Borisov, N. 29, 33, 38, 39 Soviet Direct Railway Borowiecki, Jan 73 Communication 279 Branch IV of Headquarters of air bombing of railway tracks 204 Military Transport 56–57, Air Force Command 287, 290, 304 65, 69 American Civil War 13 bridge destruction 187, 188, Andreev, A. 32 198–203 anti-aircraft defence 72–74, 79, – arched stone and concrete 251–253 bridges 203 – air raid alert signalling system 252 – brief description of 198–199 – armaments 251–252 – damming in military – diagram of 253 terminology 200 – permanent state of 251 – delayed-action mining 203–204 – purpose of 251 – delayed explosion time 204 – small-calibre anti-aircraft artillery – explosives 200–201 batteries 252 – fixed mine devices 202–203 anti-aircraft wagon 264 – reinforced concrete bridges 201 Antipenko, N. 34, 36, 38, 39, 87 – special-purpose mining anti-tank defence 253–254 appliances 203 – armaments 253 – steel bridges 202 – instructions 253–254 – stone (arched) bridges 201 – preparations for 253–254 – timber cribs 200 arched stone and concrete – wooden bridges 200–202 bridges 203 Bridge Reconstruction Train 114, Artemenko, N. 34 139, 153, 175–176, 177 Ataman, Jan 321 broad-gauge sidings 37, 115, Austrian railway policy 18 119–120, 122–123, 128, 135, Austro-Hungarian border 15 125–126, 135 broad-gauge stations 126 B broad-gauge steam BARIERA 70 military locomotive 46, 128 exercise 234–235 broad-gauge tracks 118–119, BARIERA 79 military 121–125, 127, 129–130 exercise 112–113, 236–243 broad-gauge Ty23 Bloch, Jan 17, 412 locomotives 123, 136 Board IV of Headquarters of Brych, Jerzy 12, 102 Military Transport 58 Brygiewicz, K. 334 Zbigniew Tucholski - 9783631818299 Downloaded from PubFactory at 09/26/2021 04:59:35PM via free access 424 Index C electrified railways lines 51–53 carriages 19, 51, 159–161, 163–165, electromechanical (sliding) VES 176, 184, 258–259, 267, 279–280, type signalling devices 22 282, 284–285, 295, 320, 325–326, engineering-miner trains 185, 189 330–331, 387–388, 391 evacuation transfers 245 Cegielski, H. 51 Centre for Ballistic Research 79 F Chrzanowski, Henryk 327 Field Artillery Research Centre in circuit track system 291 Zielonka 314–325 Civil Defence facilities 61 – 5th Railway Troops Batallion 315 coal wagons 31, 154, 250–251, 258, – 7th Railway Troops Batallion 315 259, 263, 267, 339, 386 – Internal Transport and Railway Coastal Operational Section 321 Directions 10, 23, 84 – main and peripheral Command of the Polish Air Defence lines 316–317 Forces 290 – maintenance facilities 315–316 commercial ramps 269, 273 – non-public railway 324 compound locks 212 – Ordnance Research Czerwiakow, Herman 58 Centre 321, 322 – permanent loading ramps and D platforms 317–318 damming in military – temporary wooden bridges 317 terminology 200 – train announcements 322 delayed-action mining 203–204 – training area 316, 319 delayed explosion time 204 – train traffic 319 Department of Military transport, field railway equipment storage Military District Command depot 174–175 I Warsaw 64–66 5th railway troops battalion 69–74, Department of Military Transport of 78–80, 318 the Russian General Staff 14 1st Belarussian Front 28–30, 32–35, Devil’s Loop 27 37–39, 43, 47 diesel locomotives of WLs 40/50 1st Guardian Railway Brigade 29, 34 type 308–312 First World War 17–18, 19, double locks 212 209, 210, 216, 217, 218, 339, dual-gauge track layout 123–124 340, 350 dual-gauge track system 117, 135 fixed mine devices 202–203 Dzerzhinsky, Felix 20 fixed ramps 72, 273 fixed wagon furnishings 256, 259 E folding railway Eberman, Ludwik 336 bridges 217–232, 410 Eisenbahnen über die Oder-Neiße- – carriageway of bridge Grenze (Kuhlmann) 12 sleepers 225–226 Zbigniew Tucholski - 9783631818299 Downloaded from PubFactory at 09/26/2021 04:59:35PM via free access Index 425 – economic and military importance – operational continuity 142, 144 of railways 217 – operational transport – Exposition Universelle 217 diagram 150 – K-type bridges 220–221 – organisational structure 174–179 – L-30 span diagram 223, 225 – Permanent Transhipment – L-36 span diagram 224, 225, 226 Areas 150–152 – military point of view 217 – planning of 152, 158 – military-purpose 226–227 – radio communication 144 – NZM-56, 231 – rolling stock decommissioning – Polish Armed Forces troops 222 points 147–149 – pushers 231 – Soviet Army and Polish Armed – railway troops 221 Forces troops 149 – riverbank spans 232 – strategic bridge component – Roth-Waagner bridges 218 reserve list 153–154 – Roth-Waagner spans 218–219 – structure of transport – S49 rails 228–229 network 143 – SEK-500 overpass 227–228, 230 – Substitute Transhipment Areas 151 – SRK-30/40 folding crane 230 – technical solution diagram for – standard-gauge railway railway junction 146 bridges 218–219 – Temporary Transhipment – in Warsaw Pact 227 Areas 150–152 4th Ukrainian Front territory 27 – wagon side wall removal facilities Franco-Prussian War of 1870– list 155–156 1871 13, 184, 350 – Warsaw Military District of the freight wagons 51, 178, 230, 256, Bureau of Military Transport 150 258-259, 295, 331–333, 325–326, – zones of frontline railway 340, 386, 391 network 157 French-Polish Consortium 333 frontline railways operability 174 French-Polish Railway Society 19 fuel re-pumping point frontal railway lines 18 sidings 356–357 Frontline Board for Military Transports 44 G frontline-bound railway Gaponiuk, Anatol 56 lines 115, 150 Gembora, Marian 11, 383 frontline offensive campaign German railway troops 41 military transport 142–158 Godek, Włodzimierz 78 – anticipated nuclear attack 145 Grubecki, Jan 26, 49 – front railway lines 145–146 – labour-intensive nature of H reconstruction works 151 hazardous goods transport 247, – mechanisation of tactical 249, 250 compounds 158 Head of Frontline Transport 62, 63 Zbigniew Tucholski - 9783631818299 Downloaded from PubFactory at 09/26/2021 04:59:35PM via free access 426 Index Headquarters of Military Transport I (1944–1962) improvised frontal double ramp 274 – Board IV of 58 improvised frontal single ramp 275 – Branch IV of 56–57, 65, 69 improvised parallel ramp 269, 273, – Chief Quartermaster of the Polish 275, 279 Armed Forces 11, 56, 63 improvised ramps 269, 273 – of General Staff 58 improvised side oblique ramps 273 – of General Staff of Polish Armed improvised side perpendicular Forces 10, 63, 69, 75, 76, 355, 357, ramp 276, 277 388–390 Independent Squadron of Anti- – line units of railway and inland 59 Aircraft Defence of Military – for liquidation 291 Transports 72, 73, 74, 78, 79 – Military District Command Instructions Concerning the I Warsaw 64–66 Organisation and Delivery – military offices 254 of Military Railway – military railway sidings in Transports 248, 258 Warsaw 296–300 internal railway systems 291 – military-technical description of Iznyarov, A. 37 rail links 90–93 – Ministry of National Defence 246, J 255, 325 Jaśman, Aleksander 65 – order and commission 291 Jarzyna, J. 103–107, 113, 239, 240 – peacetime activities of 63–64 Jaskulski, K. 334 – planning of training and dispatching of railway K troops 58 Kaganovich, L. 32 – raiway unit reconstructions 66–81 key locks 124, 211–212 – Regional State Railway Komunikacje i wojna (Nowak) 12 Management 55, 59, 60, 65, 74, Korczyc, Władysław 58, 67 119, 359 Kostap transfer rules 249, 255 – siding and siding-related Kotow, A. 30 facilities 289 Kovalev, I. 32 – special rolling stock 386–387 Krawiec, Edmund 71 – during wartime 61 K-type bridges 220–221 Heads of Traffic and Trade Kuhlmann, A. 12 Departments 271 Kuźmienko, Grzegorz 56 heavy-duty railway flat wagons 276 L Herbst, Stanisław 11 L-30 span diagram 223, 225 Hrubieszów narrow-gauge L-36 span diagram 224, 225, 226 railway 314 labour-intensive nature of hydrographic properties 107 reconstruction works 151 Zbigniew Tucholski - 9783631818299 Downloaded from PubFactory at 09/26/2021 04:59:35PM via free access Index 427 Leciak, Zygmunt 76 Ls40 type locomotives Lesnikov, A. 39 – military 367–369 Lewiński, Piotr 233 – technical characteristics 363–366 loading areas, stations, and sites, Ls150 type locomotive military transports 268–279 – military 374–377 – commercial ramps 273 – technical data of 371–374 – definition of 270 Ls300 type locomotive – fixed ramps 273 – military 382 – heavy-duty railway flat – technical data of 378–381 wagons 276 Lublin Regional State Railway – improvised frontal double Management 12, 31 ramp 274 – improvised frontal single M ramp 275 Macewicz, Eugeniusz 42 – improvised parallel ramp 275 Mackiewicz, Eugeniusz 400 – improvised side perpendicular Manual of Railway Damage ramp 276, 277 Reconstruction 187, 199, 204, 207, – loading yards 272 209, 210, 213 – military ramps 269 Mazur, Jan 321 – mobile ramps 274 Mława narrow-gauge railway 324, – Ppwwp ramp flat wagon 278 357–361 – primary loading areas 270 mechanical railway signalling – process of selecting and devices 116 organising 270 Mechanised Permanent-Way – provisional makeshift Train 176, 177 ramps 273 Mierosławski, Ludwik 183 – special bogie flat wagons 276 Mikoyan, A. 32 – steel ramps and Military Academy of Rear and resources 278–279 Transport Services 68 – supplementary loading areas 270 Military Agitation Points 59 – z-type portable ramps 276 Military Command of Railway locomotives Section 61 – in military rolling stock 361–386 Military Commands of Frontline and Ls40 type 363–369 Army Distribution Stations 61 Ls150 type 371–377 Military Commands of Railway Ls300 type 378–382 Sections 61 – narrow-gauge 342–343, 348, 352 Military Commands of