Gromobój (armoured train)
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Armoured train
An armoured train is a train protected with armour. They are usually equipped with railroad cars armed with artillery and machine guns. They were mostly used during the late 19th and early 20th century, when they offered an innovative way to quickly move large amounts of firepower...
from the period of the Polish-Ukrainian war
Polish-Ukrainian War
The Polish–Ukrainian War of 1918 and 1919 was a conflict between the forces of the Second Polish Republic and West Ukrainian People's Republic for the control over Eastern Galicia after the dissolution of Austria-Hungary.-Background:...
(1918-1919). The train took part in the fighting in the area of the rail junction in Zagórze
Zagórze
Zagórze is the biggest, northern-most district of Sosnowiec, totally transformed with building the Huta Katowice . Until 1975, it was a separate town in Będzin county. It is Edward Gierek's place of birth....
. The train's armour was constructed from walls of brick, between which was river gravel. The locomotive
Locomotive
A locomotive is a railway vehicle that provides the motive power for a train. The word originates from the Latin loco – "from a place", ablative of locus, "place" + Medieval Latin motivus, "causing motion", and is a shortened form of the term locomotive engine, first used in the early 19th...
used in the train was an ex-Austro
Austria
Austria , officially the Republic of Austria , is a landlocked country of roughly 8.4 million people in Central Europe. It is bordered by the Czech Republic and Germany to the north, Slovakia and Hungary to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the...
-Hungarian
Hungary
Hungary , officially the Republic of Hungary , is a landlocked country in Central Europe. It is situated in the Carpathian Basin and is bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine and Romania to the east, Serbia and Croatia to the south, Slovenia to the southwest and Austria to the west. The...
kkStB Class 229
KkStB Class 229
The steam locomotive class kkStB 229 was a passenger tank engine class with the Imperial Austrian State Railways , kkStB....
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