Polish State Railways As a Mode of Transport for Troops of the Warsaw Pact : : Technology in Service of a Doctrine.

• Superior document: Studies in History, Memory and Politics Series ; v.35
• Author: Bienias, Barbara.
• TeilnehmendeR: Ciesielski, Marek.; Tucholski, Zbigniew.
• Place / Publishing House: Frankfurt a.M. : : Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften,, 2020.; ©2020.
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Studies in History, Memory and Politics Series
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (450 pages)

The book deals with the history of the planned use of Polish railway infrastructure during the Cold War as part of the strategic plans of the Warsaw Pact. The author analyses both technical and operational issues related to railway military transportation in a historical perspective.

Table of Contents

• Cover
• Copyright information
• Contents
• INTRODUCTION
• 1. DEVELOPING THE CONCEPT OF MILITARY RAILWAY USE
• 2. RED ARMY MILITARY TRANSPORT IN THE FINAL STAGES OF THE SECOND WORLD WAR - TRANSPORT-BASED SECURITY OF THE RED ARMY OPERATIONS IN BELARUS AND THE VISTULA-AND-ODRA REGION
• 3. RECONSTRUCTING, ORGANISING, AND DEVELOPING THE HEADQUARTERS OF MILITARY TRANSPORT IN THE YEARS 1944-1962
• 3.1 Department of Military transport, Military District Command I Warsaw
• 3.2 Reconstruction of Railway Units 167
• 3.2.1 The 5th Railway Troops Battalion in Dar ł owo
• 3.2.2 3rd Railway Troops Battalion in Pikulice near Przemy ś l
• 3.2.3 7th Railway Troops Battalion in Wrze ś nia
• 4. PREPARING THE Polish State Railways NETWORK FOR A MILITARY CONFLICT AS PART OF WARSAW PACT STRATEGIC PLANS
• 4.1 Securing Transport for the Frontline Offensive Campaign
• 4.2 Evacuation of the Wounded
• 4.2.1 Temporary Transhipment Areas
• 4.2.2 Organisational Structure of Military Transport on the Frontline
• 4.2.3 Organising Technical Protection for the Frontline Railway Network
• 4.3. Destruction of Railway Lines, Stations, Facilities and Rolling Stock
• 4.3.1 Bridge Destruction
• 4.3.2 Bridge Mining
• 4.4 Temporary Reconstruction (Construction) of Railway Lines
• 4.4.1 Reconstruction of Water Supply Facilities
• 4.4.2 Reconstruction of Buildings Indispensable to Railway Traffic
• 4.4.3 Reconstruction of Railway Signalling Devices
• 4.4.4 Temporary Bridge Reconstruction
• 4.5 Folding Railway Bridges
• 4.6 Railway Bridge Crossings Built by the Road and Railway Units of the Polish Armed Forces as part of the Warsaw Pact Military Exercises and Performing Tasks to Support the National Economy
• "BARIERA 70" Military Exercise of the Allied Forces, Ł ugi G ó rzyckie
• Railway Bridge Construction in Ma ł kinia (1971).
• Construction of a High-Water Temporary Bridge on the River Nogat in Malbork (1972)
• "BARIERA 79" Military Exercise, Siekierki n. Odr ą (1979)
• 5. MILITARY TRANSPORTS
• 5.1 Military Transports - Typology
• 5.1.1 Military Rail Transport
• 5.1.2 Anti-Aircraft Defence of Military Transports
• 5.1.3 Anti-Tank Defence of Military Transports
• 5.1.4 Safeguarding the Confidentiality of Transports
• 5.1.5 Rolling Stock used for Military transport Purposes
• 5.1.6 Loading Areas, Stations, and Sites
• Loading Devices
• 5.2 Transporting Soviet Army Troops in Transit by the Polish State Railways
• 5.3 Transports for Soviet Army Troops Stationed in Poland
• 6. MILITARY RAILWAY SIDINGS AND MILITARY RAILWAYS
• 6.1 Military narrow-gauge railways
• 6.1.1 Military siding no. 289 Hrubiesz ó w (Hrubiesz ó w narrow-gauge railway)
• 6.1.2 Narrow-gauge military railway at the Field Artillery Research Centre in Zielonka (military siding No. 182) and standard-gauge siding No. 127 727
• 6.1.3 Rolling stock
• 6.1.4. Narrow-gauge 600mm railway on the Hel peninsula (military siding No. 582)
• 6.1.5. Narrow-gauge 600 mm military railway Gdynia-Port Wojenny Oksywie, (military siding No. 581) JW 3643 Gdynia Port-Oksywie, siding No. 407
• 6.1.6 Military railway Ś winouj ś cie, military siding No. 881 (600 mm)
• 6.1.7 Military siding No. 181, JW 1540 Nowe Miasto and sidings for fuel re-pumping station in Piaseczno No. 101/183 (standard- and narrow-gauge)
• 6.1.8 Military siding in Zegrze Pomorskie and fuel re-pumping point siding in Koszalin
• 6.1.9 Military siding JW 4420 No. 180 (M ł awa narrow-gauge railway)
• 6.2. Military rolling stock
• 6.2.1 Locomotives
• 6.2.2 Wagon and special rolling stock
• 6.2.3 Management of military rolling stock
• 6.2.4 Road trailers for wagon transport.
• 6.2.5 Narrow-gauge military tank wagons of the Ministry of National Defence
• CONCLUSION
• BIBLIOGRAPHY
• INDEX.