Barwałd Średni railway accident

Memorial stone to the railway accident near Barwałd Średni, 1944

The Barwałd Średni railway accident occurred on November 24, 1944 in Barwałd Średni near Wadowice . When a passenger train from Zakopane to Krakow collided with a German military train, over 130 passengers , soldiers and crews of the locomotives died , and 100 to 200 other people were injured.

procedure

In the railway accident between 3:15 and 3:20 p.m., a German military train with supplies for the Eastern Front collided head-on with an express train traveling from Zakopane to Krakow . The express was short on the heavily used by supply transports for the Eastern Front route Kalwaria Zebrzydowska - Skawina been diverted because of the parallel portion Skawina Spytkowice-Oświęcim, who also serves as connection to the Auschwitz concentration camp served a railway bridge between Kalwaria Zebrzydowska and Skawina of partisans had been blown up.

literature

• Andrzej Nowakowski: Tragedia barwałdzka 24 listopada 1944 roku: relacje naocznych świadków . Drukarnia i Wydawnictwo Grafikon, Wadowice 2008, ISBN 83-60817-21-9 .
• Gustaw Studnicki: Barwałd. Zarys dziejów. Pp. 254-255, Grafikon, Wadowice 1994. ISBN 83-902210-1-2

Web links

• Adam Dyląg: W rocznicę tragicznych wydarzeń. in Wolnadroga.pl

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Zapomniana, najtragiczniejsza katastrofa . Courier Kolejowy. June 2, 2012. Retrieved November 3, 2012.