Železná Ruda lies 2 kilometres northeast from Bayerisch Eisenstein.

In August 2006 Bayerisch Eisenstein and Železná Ruda signed a twinning agreement.

Today, trains runs to both halves of the station from the respective countries.

The local German train service, the Waldbahn, also continues across the border to Špičák in the Czech Republic.

Bayerisch Eisenstein lies on the Bavarian Forest railway from Plattling to Plzeň.