Narrow gauge railways in the Czech Republic
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Apart from public lines listed below there existed many industrial, forest and agricultural non-public narrow gauge systems; a few of them are still running.
[edit] Current public lines
- Obrataň - Jindřichův Hradec - Nová Bystřice; gauge 760 mm (2 ft 6 in), total length 79 km, 30 stations and stops, partly operated by steam locomotives, maximum permitted speed 50 km/h, privately owned [1]
- Osoblažka; Třemešná ve Slezsku - Osoblaha; gauge 760 mm (2 ft 6 in), total length 20 km, maximum permitted speed 40 km/h, operated by České dráhy
- Liberec - Jablonec nad Nisou; gauge 1 m (3 ft 33⁄8 in), operated by trams
[edit] Abandoned public lines
- Heřmanička; Frýdlant v Čechách - Heřmanice; 1900 - 1976; gauge 750 mm (2 ft 51⁄2 in), used to be connected to Zittau - Reichenau line
- Moravský Beroun - Dvorce; 1898 - 1933; gauge 760 mm (2 ft 6 in)
- Network of lines among Ostrava, Bohumín, Orlová and Karviná; 1902 - 1973 (last remaining line closed); gauge 760 mm (2 ft 6 in), operated by trams
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