Třemešná to Osoblaha

Osoblaha sits at the tip of a corner of Czechia that pushes north into Poland, with the border on three sides. When the line was planned it was the edge of Austria, and the country beyond was Prussia. In the 1870s the town's sugar mill wanted a railway, and the obvious one ran north, across the frontier, to the Prussian line from Neustadt to Leobschütz. The ministry in Vienna refused it, because it crossed the border. When the state finally agreed to pay, in 1893, it paid only for a branch on its own side of the line, and only at 760 millimetres, a gauge a third cheaper to build. That branch opened on 14 December 1898, and it still ends at the edge of Osoblaha, by the border it was never allowed to cross.

It is 20.2 kilometres long, though Třemešná and Osoblaha are 13 apart, because the track follows the ground round 102 curves. One of them, a 75-metre curve just outside Třemešná, is the sharpest on the Czech railway network. For more than a century the state ran the trains; since December 2025 they have been run by Osoblažská úzkorozchodná dráha, a company set up by the villages along the line, with the same ČKD diesel locomotives that took over from steam in 1958.

The ride takes about fifty minutes, downhill most of the way, through the open farmland of the Osoblaha country and a wooded river valley under a ruined castle. Four trains run each way every day, and on summer weekends a steam train runs as well.

The narrow-gauge trains leave Třemešná ve Slezsku from the far side of the station building, away from the platforms of the main line from Krnov. Straight away the line drops at up to 26 per mille to a three-span steel bridge over the road and the Mušlov brook, then climbs at 27.3 per mille, the steepest on the line, to a summit only a metre lower than the station. Just beyond it comes the 75-metre curve, where the speed limit is 20 km/h. From there the line runs downhill nearly all the way to Osoblaha, 170 metres lower.

Across the plateau

After Liptaň, the first station, the line turns north-east, then swings south-east before Dívčí Hrad and starts the long, gentle descent into the Oder lowland. It winds through open fields by way of Horní Povelice and Amalín, halts where the train stops only on request, to Slezské Rudoltice, where the château of the Hodic family stands in its park. The curves are not there for the view. A popular story says the line was lengthened because Austrian rules allowed only railways longer than 20 kilometres, but the line from Ondrášov to Dvorce, built the same year for the same owner, was 11. The real reason was cost: a track that hugs the ground needs fewer cuttings and embankments.

Down the Osoblaha valley

Beyond Slezské Rudoltice the line turns north with the Lužná brook. After Koberno it enters the wooded valley of the Osoblaha river, passes below the ruin of Fulštejn castle, and reaches Bohušov. The last few kilometres run out of the trees to Osoblaha, where the terminus stands on the edge of the town, right by the Polish border.

A railway for a Moravian island

The Osoblaha country was a piece of Moravia inside Silesia, held by the bishops of Olomouc, and when Austria lost most of Silesia to Prussia in 1742 it was left as a salient of Austrian land running into Prussian territory. The railway it got was a compromise. Its sugar mill and villages could find less than a tenth of the cost of a line towards Albrechtice, and the frontier crossing they wanted was refused. In February 1893 the government provisionally approved a line from Albrechtice through Osoblaha to Deutsch Rasselwitz in Prussia, then granted 278,000 gulden only for the Austrian part, and only for narrow gauge. The Moravian Diet added 237,000 gulden in 1896, and in 1897 the route was changed to meet the main line at Röwersdorf, today's Třemešná.

The first regular train left at ten to four on the morning of 14 December 1898, with no ceremony. The official train arrived at half past eleven to a banquet for more than a hundred guests, and even then, as the line's history records, the region had wanted a standard-gauge railway.

Since then

The Austrian State Railways ran it from the start. In 1938 it passed to the German Reichsbahn, and in 1945 the fighting destroyed most of Osoblaha. Diesel locomotives of class TU47.0, built by ČKD, arrived in 1958, and the last steam train ran on 16 November 1960. The same locomotives, now class 705.9, still haul the trains, with one coach or two. The track was relaid in 1986–88, goods traffic ended on 31 May 1997, and closure was discussed three times. In June 2022 České dráhy ran out of working locomotives and put on buses until January 2023.

The villages along the line had bought the station buildings in 2018, and in December 2025 their company took over the trains as well. A flood in September 2024 damaged the track in many places, and it was repaired between September and November 2025, just before the change.

Line 319 is worked by Osoblažská úzkorozchodná dráha every day of the year, with four trains in each direction. No reservation is needed. The run takes 49 to 50 minutes. Dívčí Hrad, Horní Povelice, Amalín and Koberno are request stops.

Times below are from the 2026 timetable published by Správa železnic, valid from 14 December 2025, read in October 2026. Check departures at osoblazsko.com (opens in a new tab).

Třemešná ve Slezsku to Osoblaha

Osoblaha to Třemešná ve Slezsku

The Monday-to-Saturday trains also run on 24 December, 3 April, 1 and 8 May, 28 October and 17 November, and not on 27 December, 4 April or 2 and 9 May.

From Krnov

Every narrow-gauge train meets a České dráhy fast train on line 318 to and from Krnov, 20 minutes away: from Krnov at 07:05, 11:05, 15:05 and 19:05, and back into Krnov at 06:55, 10:55, 14:55 and 18:55.

Steam

The Slezské zemské dráhy steam train leaves Třemešná at 10:45, reaching Osoblaha at 12:03, and comes back from Osoblaha at 15:10, arriving in Třemešná at 16:39. In 2026 it ran on Saturdays from 6 to 27 June, on Saturdays and Sundays from 4 July to 30 August, and on Saturdays in September until the 19th, with special trains at Easter and on 7 November for the St Martin's feast in Bohušov. A seasonal ČD train from Krnov at 10:15 connects with it. Dates for 2027 had not been published when this page was checked.

The regular trains take the fares of ODIS, the Moravian-Silesian Region's integrated transport system, and the national OneTicket tariff, and no reservation is needed. Within the region you can pay by bank card or ODIS card at the validator on board, or in the ODISapka app. For a ticket beyond the region, or to pay in cash, buy it from the driver; cash fares cost 30 to 50 per cent more.

The steam trains are run by Slezské zemské dráhy on a fare of their own: in 2026 a single from Třemešná to Osoblaha cost 240 Kč and a return 390 Kč, with seat reservations available for 40 Kč.

Interrail and Eurail passes do not cover this line. Interrail's list of Czech operators names Slezské zemské dráhy and Osoblažská úzkorozchodná dráha, Osoblaha – Třemešná ve Slezsku, among the trains a pass is not valid on, so both the regular trains and the steam train need a ticket of their own.

A pass can still bring you to the start. The České dráhy trains on line 318 from Krnov to Třemešná are covered, so somebody already travelling in Czechia on a pass can ride to Třemešná and buy an ODIS ticket there for the narrow gauge. Buying a pass for this line alone makes no sense.

Pass conditions checked against Interrail's railway-companies page, last updated 21 October 2026. Conditions change with each season, and the pass issuer's page is the one that binds.

The villages along the line are small, but they keep a château, a castle ruin and, at the end of the line, the remains of an old border town. The places below run from Slezské Rudoltice to Osoblaha.

The château at Slezské Rudoltice stands in the village, and Fulštejn is on the hill above Bohušov. In Osoblaha the walls, St Nicholas and the Jewish cemetery are all on the edges of the old town.

The line is under an hour end to end, and every train connects with a fast train to Krnov, so it is easy to ride as a day out from there.

Krnov is the better base. It is the nearest town of any size, 20 minutes from Třemešná by train, with direct trains to Ostrava. The hotel below keeps its own website and takes direct bookings.

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