Bieszczadzka Forest Railway
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Bieszczadzka Forest Railway (Polish: Bieszczadzka Kolejka Leśna) is a narrow gauge railway built in a sparsely populated, forest region of Bieszczady Mountains
Bieszczady Mountains
Bieszczady is the Polish name for a mountain range in the extreme south-east of Poland, extending into Ukraine and Slovakia...

. Construction commenced at the end of 19th century and completed before the World War I
World War I
World War I , which was predominantly called the World War or the Great War from its occurrence until 1939, and the First World War or World War I thereafter, was a major war centred in Europe that began on 28 July 1914 and lasted until 11 November 1918...

. Nowadays, a part of the railway is utilized as a tourist attraction
Tourist attraction
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. Train
Train
A train is a connected series of vehicles for rail transport that move along a track to transport cargo or passengers from one place to another place. The track usually consists of two rails, but might also be a monorail or maglev guideway.Propulsion for the train is provided by a separate...

s run regularly on weekends from the beginnig of May till the end of September. In July and August also on weekdays.

The main station with all the rolling stock
Rolling stock
Rolling stock comprises all the vehicles that move on a railway. It usually includes both powered and unpowered vehicles, for example locomotives, railroad cars, coaches and wagons...

 is located in Majdan
Majdan, Lesko County
Majdan is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Cisna, within Lesko County, Subcarpathian Voivodeship, in south-eastern Poland, close to the border with Slovakia. It lies approximately west of Cisna, south of Lesko, and south of the regional capital Rzeszów.The village has a...

 near Cisna
Cisna
Cisna is the main village of the Gmina Cisna in the Lesko County, in the Subcarpathian Voivodeship of south-eastern Poland. It lies in the Solinka valley in between the Bieszczady mountains.-History:...

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