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.

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 DvořiÅ¡tě - 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)
• AÅ¡ - 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 KruÅ¡ných 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 the re-creation of Poland, so that some of them originally went to Germany, while others were entirely 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 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)

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)

See also

• Freedom Train (Czechoslovakia)
• Polish rail border crossings
• Slovak rail border crossings

References

Detailed article about abandoned border crossings