Frýdlant-Hermanice Railway
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In 1864, a committee for construction of normal gauge railway line Zittau
Zittau
Zittau is a city in the south east of the Free State of Saxony, Germany, close to the border tripoint of Germany, Poland, and the Czech Republic. , there are 28,638 people in the city. It is part of the Görlitz district....
- Reichenau (Bogatynia
Bogatynia
Bogatynia is a town in Zgorzelec County, Lower Silesian Voivodeship, in south-western Poland, close to the tripoint of the Czech, German and Polish borders. The town lies approximately south of Zgorzelec, and west of the regional capital Wrocław. As of 2006 it had 19,068 inhabitants.The...
) - Frýdlant
Frýdlant v Cechách
Frýdlant, sometimes cited also as Frýdlant v Čechách is a town in the Liberec District of the Liberec Region in the Czech Republic. It has approximately 7,500 inhabitants and lies in the historic Bohemia region on the outskirts of the Jizera Mountains....
- Liegnitz (Legnica
Legnica
Legnica is a town in south-western Poland, in Silesia, in the central part of Lower Silesia, on the plain of Legnica, riverside: Kaczawa and Czarna Woda. Between 1 June 1975 and 31 December 1998 Legnica was the capital of the Legnica Voivodeship. It is currently the seat of the county...
) was established. Negotiations with governments and investors failed.
In 1884, a narrow gauge railway connecting Zittau with Markersdorf via Reichenau was built. As a result, new plans for construction of narrow gauge line with a gauge of 750 mm connecting Frýdlant and Zittau were drawn. In 1899, a concession for construction of line Frýdlant - Dětřichov - Heřmanice was granted. Public transport, operated by Friedländer Bezirksbahn, started in August 1900.
The line was closed down in January 1976. The track
Rail tracks
The track on a railway or railroad, also known as the permanent way, is the structure consisting of the rails, fasteners, sleepers and ballast , plus the underlying subgrade...
and some bridges were dismantled in 1996.
Total length of the track amounted to 10.781 km, maximum slope 35‰, minimum radius 50 meters, maximum speed 40 km/h.