UID:
kobvindex_HPB1236459143
Format:
1 online resource.
Edition:
1st, New ed.
ISBN:
9783631829653
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3631829655
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9783631829660
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3631829663
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9783631829677
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3631829671
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9783631818299
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3631818297
Series Statement:
Open Access e-Books
Content:
The subject of the book is the history of the planned use of Polish railway infrastructure during the Cold War as part of the strategic plans of the Warsaw Pact. Analysing both technical and operational issues related to railway military transportation in a historical perspective, the author presents the history of the military transportation service of the Polish Army and provides a detailed characteristics of the organizational structure, equipment and tasks of the military transportation units and railway troops. The book also deals with rail transports of the Soviet Army on the Polish State Railways. The work is not only the result of archival queries and interviews with retired officers of the military transportation service but also field research of railway infrastructure.--
Note:
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
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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
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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
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"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
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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
Language:
English
Keywords:
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