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Czech rail border crossings

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Czech rail border crossings

These are all the Czech rail border crossings as of 2007. Crossings in italics are abandoned. The year of opening is in brackets.

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Czech Republic - Austria

Note that all of these railway lines were built in Austria-Hungary and became border crossings after the creation of Czechoslovakia in 1918.

  • Břeclav - Bernhardsthal (1839), see North railway
  • Novosedly - Laa an der Thaya (1872-1930)
  • Hevlín - Laa an der Thaya (1870-1945)
  • Znojmo - Retz (1871)
  • Slavonice - Fratres (1903-1945)
  • České Velenice - Breitensee (1900-1950), narrow gauge
  • České Velenice - Gmünd (1869), see Franz Josef Railway
  • České Velenice - Gmünd (1902-1950), narrow gauge Waldviertelbahn to Groß Gerungs, remaining bridge across Lužnice leads to a border crossing for pedestrians
  • Horní Dvořiště - Summerau (1871)
  • Czech Republic - Germany

  • Stožec - Haidmühle (1910-1945), currently 105 m long heritage railway only
  • Železná Ruda - Bayerisch Eisenstein (1877-1953, 1992), passenger transport only
  • Česká Kubice - Furth im Wald (1861)
  • Cheb - Waldsassen (1865-1945), currently a biking trail
  • Cheb - Schirnding (1883)
  • Aš - Selb - Plößberg (1865), reopened for passenger transport in December 2015
  • Hranice v Čechách - Adorf (1906-1945)
  • Vojtanov - Bad Brambach (1856)
  • Kraslice - Klingenthal (1886-1952, 2000), passenger transport only
  • Potůčky - Johanngeorgenstadt (1889-1945, 2003)
  • Vejprty - Bärenstein (1872-1945, 1993)
  • Křimov - Reitzenhain (1875-1947)
  • Moldava v Krušných Horách - Holzhau (1884-1945)
  • Děčín - Bad Schandau (1851)
  • Dolní Poustevna - Sebnitz (1905-1945), reopened in 2014
  • Rumburk - Ebersbach (1873)
  • Varnsdorf - Seifhennersdorf (1871), passenger transport only
  • Varnsdorf - Großschönau (1871), passenger transport only
  • Hrádek nad Nisou - Zittau (1859-1945, 1951), currently through Polish territory
  • Czech Republic - Poland

    Note that all these railway lines were built before recreation of Poland, so some of them originally went to Germany, others were within the Austro-Hungarian empire.

  • Heřmanice - Bogatynia (Reichenau) (1900-1945), narrow gauge, see Frýdlant-Heřmanice Railway
  • Frýdlant v Čechách - Zawidów (Seidenberg) (1875), transport of goods only
  • Jindřichovice pod Smrkem - Mirsk (Friedeberg) (1902-1945)
  • Harrachov - Jakuszyce (1902-1945, 2010–present), see Cog railway Tanvald-Harrachov and Izera railway
  • Královec - Lubawka (1869), regular season traffic
  • Meziměstí - Mieroszów (1877)
  • Otovice - Tłumaczów (Tuntschendorf) (1889-1945)
  • Náchod-Běloves - Kudowa Zdrój (-1945)
  • Lichkov - Międzylesie (1875)
  • Bernartice - Dziewiętlice (-1945)
  • Vidnava - Kałków (1911-1945)
  • Mikulovice - Głuchołazy (1888)
  • Jindřichov ve Slezsku - Głuchołazy (1875)
  • Krnov - Głubczyce (1873-1945)
  • Opava - Pilszcz (1909-1945)
  • Chuchelná - Krzanowice (1895-1945)
  • Bohumín - Chałupki (1848)
  • Petrovice u Karviné - Zebrzydowice (1855)
  • Albrechtice - Marklowice (1914-1931), abolished after enactment of border with Poland, only base of bridge across Olza remained
  • Český Těšín - Cieszyn (1888), no passenger traffic
  • Czech Republic - Slovakia

    Note that all of these railway lines were built before the dissolution of Czechoslovakia in 1993 and became border crossings in that year.

  • Mosty u Jablunkova - Čadca (1871)
  • Horní Lideč - Lúky pod Makytou (1937)
  • Vlárský průsmyk - Horné Srnie (1888)
  • Velká nad Veličkou - Vrbovce (1929)
  • Sudoměřice - Skalica (1893), no regular traffic
  • Hodonín - Holíč (1891), currently no regular traffic, used for diversions in case of temporary closures on Lanžhot - Kúty line
  • Lanžhot - Kúty (1900)
  • Unrealised projects

  • Nová Bystřice - Litschau (gauge 760 mm)
  • Moldava - Hermsdorf-Rehefeld, narrow gauge Pöbel Railway to Schmiedeberg on Weisseritz Railway
  • Dolní Světlá - Jonsdorf, extension of narrow gauge Zittau-Jonsdorf line
  • Hlučín - Chałupki (Annaberg)
  • References

    Czech rail border crossings Wikipedia