Polish State Railroads in Summer 1939

Polish State Railroads In Summer 1939

In the summer of 1939, the map of both Europe and Poland looked very different from today. Obviously, the railway network of interwar Poland was also different from the present one, and also slightly different from the German, Austrian and Russian networks the Second Polish Republic had partially taken over after 1918. These important junctions were on the Polish territory in summer of 1939:

- Lwów (Lviv), Tarnopol (Ternopil), Stanisławów (Ivano-Frankivsk), Stryj (Stryy), Kowel (Kovel), Chodorow (Khodoriv), Kołomyja (Kolomyya) and Sarny (Sarny) - all now in Ukraine,

- Łuniniec (Luninyets), Baranowicze (Baranavichy), Brześć nad Bugiem (Brest), Lida (Lida), Wołkowysk (Vawkavysk) and Mołodeczno (Maladzyechna)- all now in Belarus,

- Wilno (Vilnius), Landwarow (Lentvaris) - now in Lithuania,

- Cieszyn Zachodni (Český Těšín), Bogumin (Bohumín) - now in the Czech Republic.

On the other hand, several junctions of today's Poland belonged in 1939 to Germany or the Free City of Danzig. Among them were such hubs as: Breslau (Wrocław), Stettin (Szczecin), Oppeln (Opole), Allenstein (Olsztyn), Liegnitz (Legnica), Köslin (Koszalin), Schneidemühl (Piła), Neustettin (Szczecinek), Lyck (Ełk).

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