The Třemešná ve Slezsku–Osoblaha railway is a

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connecting Třemešná on the

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line with

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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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