The BLS Wielkopolski Explorer - Part 1 - 25th April 2025

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A development opportunity‽ The apparently rather oversized station building at Kłobuczyn.<br>[© Iain Scotchman 2025]	Niegosławice, SU42 536 stands with the BLS Wielkopolski Explorer Railtour on the otherwise disused route from Głogów to Żary.<br>[&copy; Simon Mortimer 2025]	Żagan - a plinthed 4-6-0; our railtour is at the station lower middle left. <br>[&copy; Iain Scotchman 2025]	A pause at Bieniów station. Was the railroad intended to go through the middle of the house once?<br>[&copy; Iain Scotchman 2025]	Photo stop at Żary, that semaphore signal (rear) looks familiar from the masthead of BLN International.<br>[&copy; Iain Scotchman 2025]	Conversely, the impressive station building at Żary looks well cared for and utilised, unlike some of the others.<br>[&copy; Iain Scotchman 2025]	Back nearly five years to 13 Aug 2020 and railbus SA105-105 for Łódź (Litz in German) is awaiting a path south at Jankowa Żagańska. You would have difficulty NOT standing behind the yellow line at this station!<br>[© Simon Mortimer 2020]
Looking south on the same occasion in 2020.<br>[© Simon Mortimer 2020]	Looking back near junction just south of Jankowa Żagańska station in the distance (left) with the now immaculate weed free tracks in 2025.<br>[&copy; Simon Mortimer 2025]	A train load of Flakpanzer Gepards (anti-aircraft gun tanks) for Ukraine at Węgliniec.<br>[&copy; Iain Scotchman 2025]	On the freight only branch to Niwnice, the station at Nowogrodziec is literally falling down and propped up.<br>[&copy; Simon Mortimer 2025]	In need of a little TLC! Another view of Nowogrodziec.<br>[&copy; Iain Scotchman 2025]	At Niwnice, the end of that freight only branch.<br>[&copy; Iain Scotchman 2025]	Passing over Line 275 east of Jezierzany with those same tanks again passing underneath. Did the train have a tank engine?<br>[&copy; Simon Mortimer 2025]
View forward and left at podg. Legnica Wschód, passing over Line 260 on the Legnica freight avoiding with a connecting line rising steeply left.<br>[&copy; Simon Mortimer 2025]	Further on, again Podg. Legnica Wschód passing over Line 260 on the Legnica freight avoiding line with, that connecting line rising steeply left.<br>[&copy; Simon Mortimer 2025]	Still on the former double track Legnica Avoiding Line. There have to be some perks of being the tour organiser.<br>[&copy; Iain Scotchman 2025]	Rogoźnica; our BLS Wielkopolski Explorer awaits time. The granite plaque on the building is visible just beyond the wooden entrance.<br>[&copy; Simon Mortimer 2025]	That granite memorial to the Gross-Rosen Concentration Camp at Rogoźnica station.<br>[&copy; Simon Mortimer 2025]	A prolonged stop at Strzegom as a train on the on the branch to Grabina Slaska Quarry prevented access. An elderly 'Ludmilla' lurks in the yard.<br>[&copy; Simon Mortimer 2025]	In the other direction.<br>[&copy; Iain Scotchman 2025]
Another view from the other platform in the opposite direction - well, they did have rather a long time there…<br>[&copy; Iain Scotchman 2025]	The one that got away - Strzegom - the Grabina Slaska Quarry branch. It was in the plan but not done due to the unexpected freight train!<br>[&copy; Iain Scotchman 2025]