In 1864, a committee for construction of a standard gauge railway line connecting

Zittau Zittau ( hsb, Žitawa, dsb, Žytawa, pl, Żytawa, cs, Žitava, Upper Lusatian Dialect: ''Sitte''; from Slavic "''rye''" (Upper Sorbian and Czech: ''žito'', Lower Sorbian: ''žyto'', Polish: ''żyto'')) is the southeasternmost city in the Ger ...

- Reichenau (

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) -

Frýdlant Frýdlant (; also known as Frýdlant v Čechách, german: Friedland in Böhmen) is a town in Liberec District in the Liberec Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 7,400 inhabitants. The town centre is well preserved and is protected by la ...

- Liegnitz (

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) was established. Negotiations with governments and investors failed. In 1884, a narrow gauge railway connecting Zittau with

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via Reichenau was built. As a result, new plans for construction of a gauge line connecting Frýdlant and Zittau were drawn up. In 1899, a concession for construction along a Frýdlant - Dětřichov - Heřmanice route was granted. Public transport, operated by Friedländer Bezirksbahn, started in August 1900. The line was closed in January 1976. The track was removed and some bridges were dismantled in 1996. The total length of the railway was , the maximum grade was 35‰, minimum radius was , and the maximum speed was . 4 years later, The group opened a museum dedicated to this former line. On the other hand, this would later planned to

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into a

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