At Selb Untere Stadt this Lokalbahn line branched from the Cheb–Oberkotzau railway that went to Asch and Franzensbad over the border.

A small shed (Bahnbetriebswerk), which was maintained by Bw Hof, enabled locomotives to be serviced.

Numerous industrial sidings ran into the porcelain factories in the vicinity of the town that, like the Rosenthal AG, were worked by their own diesel locomotives or like, Heinrich & Co., with a fireless locomotive that handled goods wagons on the firm’s site.

Cross-border passenger services from Selb-Plößberg to Asch were suspended in 1945 at the end of the Second World War and reopened in 2015.

The 12 kilometres (7.5 mi) long section from Selb-Stadt via Höchstädt-Thierstein to Holenbrunn was finally closed in 1986.