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[]

Summerau

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 - (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 - (1871)

Czech Republic – Germany[]

Re-opening of railway border crossing Potůčky-Johanngeorgenstadt in 1992

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)
- 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[]

Abandoned track Harrachov-Jakuszyce

End of track in Otovice (2007)

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 - (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 - (1937)
- 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[]

(in Czech) Detailed article about abandoned border crossings