The Třemešná ve Slezsku – Osoblaha Railway is a

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connecting Třemešná on the

Krnov Krnov (; german: Jägerndorf, pl, Karniów or ''Krnów'') is a town in Bruntál District in the Moravian-Silesian Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 23,000 inhabitants. Administrative parts The town is made up of town parts of Pod Bezr ...

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line with

Osoblaha Osoblaha (; german: Hotzenplotz; pl, Osobłoga) is a municipality and village in Bruntál District in the Moravian-Silesian Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 1,100 inhabitants. Administrative parts Osoblaha is made up of one administrati ...

on the Czech-Polish border. It is one of the three remaining narrow gauge railway lines with regular passenger traffic in the

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and the last one operated by the state-owned railway company

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History

In the 1870s the owners of a

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in Osoblaha were looking for a railway connection of their town. From a financial point of view, the best alternative was a connection to the railway network in neighbouring

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. However, the government in

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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.

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