Třemešná ve Slezsku–Osoblaha railway

Třemešná ve Slezsku–Osoblaha railway
Třemešná ve Slezsku–Osoblaha railway
	ČD class 705 916-5 running round in Osoblaha
Overview
Locale	Czech Republic; 50°11′59.92″N 17°34′25.14″E / 50.1999778°N 17.5736500°E
Termini	Třemešná; Osoblaha;
History
Opened	14 December 1898
Technical
Track gauge	760 mm (2 ft 5+15⁄16 in) Bosnian gauge
Route map
Route map
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The Třemešná ve Slezsku–Osoblaha railway is a narrow-gauge railway connecting Třemešná on the Krnov–Głuchołazy 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]

References

^ Schreier, Pavel (2004). Zrození železnic v Čechách, na Moravě a ve Slezsku. Praha: Baset. p. 242. ISBN 80-7340-034-0.
^ "Základní údaje o trati" [Basic data about the track] (in Czech). Archived from the original on 22 February 2012.