This is claimed to be the shortest international railway in the world, at 105m long. Called
This is claimed to be the shortest international railway in the world, at 105m long. Called "Pošumavská Jižní Dráha" or "Böhmerwald Südbahn", it is located at the border between Czech Republic (Nové Údolí) and Germany (Haidmühle), in the "no-mans land" between the two border posts - the German border hut can be seen in the picture. Part of the line (!) is on the alignment of the closed railway route between Nové Údolí and Haidmühle. Nové Údolí CD station is nearby. This picture was taken during a visit on 16 October 2003.
16th October 2003
Czech Republic
European Railway Photographs by Paul Steane
Here I am (second from the left) with three friends at Mladec. At the time, 15 April 1998, this short (6km) branch had just a few trains on certain (inconvenient) days of the year only, and now has no passenger service at all. However it was, and still is, possible to charter a train on the branch for a price equivalent to 50 tickets, so this is our end-of-line group photograph having spent the princely sum of about GBP4 on our own special train. The camera is set for time-delayed exposure and is balanced on the buffer beam of the diesel railcar 810 121-4: with the engine switched off, of course.Previous | NextAt Horelice, the secondary line between Beroun and Praha crosses the route of a long freight line to the quarry at Morina. Access to this line requires a reversal, to the left of this view; beyond the reversal point the line used to continue to Kladno. CD railcar 810 278-2 is posed for photographs whilst on a GIL special to Morina, with a service train at the higher level heading for Beroun. 17 October 2003.

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