Třemešná ve Slezsku–Osoblaha railway explained

Třemešná ve Slezsku–Osoblaha railway
Locale:Czech Republic
50.2°N 17.5737°W
Start:Třemešná
End:Osoblaha
Map State:collapsed

The Třemešná ve Slezsku–Osoblaha railway is a narrow-gauge railway connecting Třemešná on the KrnovGłuchołazy line with Osoblaha on the Czech-Polish border. It is one of the three remaining narrow gauge railway lines with regular passenger traffic in the Czech Republic and the last one operated by the state-owned railway company České dráhy.

History

In the 1870s the owners of a sugar refinery in Osoblaha were looking for a railway connection of their town.[1] From a financial point of view, the best alternative was a connection to the railway network in neighbouring Prussia. However, the government in Vienna refused it on political and military grounds. On 14 December 1898 a line from Třemešná was opened. Since 1958 the trains are operated by diesel-electric locomotives T 47.0.[2]

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Notes and References

  1. Book: Schreier, Pavel . Zrození železnic v Čechách, na Moravě a ve Slezsku . 2004 . Baset . Praha . 80-7340-034-0 . 242 .
  2. Web site: Základní údaje o trati. https://web.archive.org/web/20120222101926/http://uzkokolejkaosoblaha.webpark.cz/data.htm. 22 February 2012. Basic data about the track. cs.