page_title: Bavarian Forest Railway
section_title: Traffic after the Second World War
hierarchical_section_title: Bavarian Forest Railway / Train services / Traffic after the Second World War
caption_attribution_description: English: VT 15 railbus of the Bavarian Forest Railway (Bayerische Waldbahn) on 19.4.2006 at Zwiesel station, Bavaria, Germany. Deutsch: VT 15 der Bayer. Waldbahn am 19.4.2006 im Bf. Zwiesel Español: Ferrobus VT 15 de la Ferroviaria del Bosque Bávaro (Bayerische Waldbahn) en 19/4/2006 en la estación Zwiesel, Baviera, Alemania.
context_page_description: The Bavarian Forest Railway links the heart of the Bavarian Forest around Regen and Zwiesel to Plattling and the Danube valley on one side, and the Czech Republic through Bayerisch Eisenstein on the other. In the Danube valley it forms a junction with the Nuremberg–Regensburg–Passau long distance railway and, to the south, regional lines to Landshut and Munich.
context_section_description: After the end of the Second World War, traffic to Bohemia came to a standstill. When the Iron Curtain fell, the ČSSR erected a barbed wire fence across the station yard and cut the tracks. Czech trains now terminated at the village of Železná Ruda several kilometres north of the border. The Deutsche Bundesbahn (DB) ran its trains up to the buffer stop at the border fence in Bayerisch Eisenstein station and used the southern half of the divided station building. In the building the border was closed by walls.
  The DB withdrew steam operations for goods traffic in the 1970s. On 6 March 1974 the last scheduled steam locomotive service took place. Number 053 063-4 (DRB Class 50) hauled train number N 2964 from Plattling to Bayerisch Eisenstein and its return service N 2977 on 7 March.
  For a long time Uerdingen railbuses and Class V 100 diesel locomotives worked the line. Until the mid-1990s parts of InterCity (IC) trains ran as far as Zwiesel, as did a travel agency special until 1987: a VT-601 train.
  The border crossing of Bayerisch Eisenstein was opened again on 2 June 1991. Since then, after a short wait, one can change into České drahy (ČD) trains to Klatovy (Klattau) and Plzeň (Pilsen). During shunting both railway administrations use the track system without regard to the border.
caption: A Waldbahn VT 15 railbus at Zwiesel station
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