CTL Maczki-Bór TEM2-292 on the line into KWK Staszic with empty spoil tippers. 13th March 2023
We heard something that sounded not dissimilar to an English Electric class 37 thumping hard, heading in the opposite direction across the woods. I knew it was the tipper returning, it has to balloon round a 90 degree curve to gain access to the single track to the Staszic mine. And so it proved, within ten minutes it was approaching. Don't be fooled by the woods, this is less than five kilometres from the centre of Katowice, a place of more districts than you could think of built around the mine or works that was exploited there. But these quiet and ancient places still exist, breathing spaces between the industries. And there are hidden treasures here, remnants of a very old smelting of iron.
TEM2-292 of CTL Logistics runs the final kilometre to the Staszic colliery on South Eastern edge of Katowice. Returning from Bór Górny on the edge of Sosnowiec, the locomotive operates with CTL Maczki-Bór which was a huge sand excavation pit with the sand used for the back filling of coal mines, mitigate against subsidence in the built up conurbation. The sand mining there has now finished and the site has morphed into a huge colliery waste site, with waste from the areas surviving collieries backfilling the old sand workings.
March the 13th 2023.
CTL Maczki-Bór TEM2-292 on the line into KWK Staszic with empty spoil tippers. 13th March 2023
We heard something that sounded not dissimilar to an English Electric class 37 thumping hard, heading in the opposite direction across the woods. I knew it was the tipper returning, it has to balloon round a 90 degree curve to gain access to the single track to the Staszic mine. And so it proved, within ten minutes it was approaching. Don't be fooled by the woods, this is less than five kilometres from the centre of Katowice, a place of more districts than you could think of built around the mine or works that was exploited there. But these quiet and ancient places still exist, breathing spaces between the industries. And there are hidden treasures here, remnants of a very old smelting of iron.
TEM2-292 of CTL Logistics runs the final kilometre to the Staszic colliery on South Eastern edge of Katowice. Returning from Bór Górny on the edge of Sosnowiec, the locomotive operates with CTL Maczki-Bór which was a huge sand excavation pit with the sand used for the back filling of coal mines, mitigate against subsidence in the built up conurbation. The sand mining there has now finished and the site has morphed into a huge colliery waste site, with waste from the areas surviving collieries backfilling the old sand workings.
March the 13th 2023.