Highest point in Jeziorki

The rampa na kruszywo is a great place for walks. In the UK, the whole place - ramp and sidings and land surrounding them, would be enclosed behind high fences, observed by CCTV and patrolled by security guards with dogs. (Not because there's anything here worth stealing, unless you've got a 20-ton tipper truck and need the gravel, you understand, but because of fear of litigation. This is potentially a dangerous place.) But here, you can stroll right in, scramble up the embankment and look out over Jeziorki from its highest vantage point. Below: View from the top, looking south towards Nowa Iwiczna.

Walking down the track, you get to a set of points where the train changes direction and the trucks are pushed backwards onto the ramp. As is visible from the shiny rails, the ramp is in regular use these days. Warsaw's building boom ensures that regular consignments of aggregate are brought in by train (environmentally friendlier than doing it by road). Five years ago, there was no sign of life on this little industrial spur off the main Warsaw-Radom line. Below: The ramp's sidings. Four of them (of which only one is ever used). A lot of the rails could be pulled up and sold for scrap, but then the place would lose its charm. The main line runs in the background, Warszawa Jeziorki station is behind the trees in the middle distance.