Railway line No. 410 used to run here. Today it is a part of the Western Lake District Route marked No. R20. A small open-air museum at the former station in Lubiana was created on the initiative of a private person. In addition to the steam locomotive, there is also a passenger car from that period, a Fablok Ls40 diesel locomotive from 1960 and elements of railway infrastructure such as a water crane, route markings and a renovated station building. You can see a railway telephone on the wall of one of the buildings. The whole thing blends in beautifully with the landscape, which can be one of the goals of a bicycle trip or the main destination not only for railway enthusiasts.
The Fablok Ls40 locomotive did not find wider use in PKP (SM02 series) due to its low performance (range: approx. 60 km, maximum speed: 11 km/h), however, under the designation Ls40, it was widely used to service sidings of industrial plants as a small, economical and light locomotive that can transport small loads. They could often be found in this role until the 1990s. The current tendency of small and medium-sized plants to move away from using rail transport has led to the deletion or withdrawal of a significant number of machines of this type. The Ls40 model was the smallest (length: 6 m, weight: 16 tons) standard gauge locomotive produced in post-war Poland. Until the end of production in 1961, the Chrzanów factory produced a total of 581 Ls40 units.
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