It is one of the three remaining narrow gauge railway lines with regular passenger traffic in the Czech Republic and the last one operated by the state-owned railway company České dráhy.

In the 1870s the owners of a sugar refinery in Osoblaha were looking for a railway connection of their town.

[1] From a financial point of view, the best alternative was a connection to the railway network in neighbouring Prussia.

However, the government in Vienna refused it on political and military grounds.

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