page_title: Cheb–Oberkotzau railway
section_title: Operation
hierarchical_section_title: Cheb–Oberkotzau railway / History / Operation
caption_attribution_description: Čeština: Železniční stanice Aš Deutsch: Bahnhof Aš
context_page_description: The Cheb–Oberkotzau railway is a railway line in Bavaria, Germany, and the Czech Republic which was built as a main line. It begins in Cheb and runs via Františkovy Lázně, Aš and Selb to Oberkotzau. The line was originally planned as a direct railway link between Eger and Hof; but the plan was changed so that the existing Ludwig South-North Railway between Oberkotzau and Hof was shared. The section Aš–Selb-Plößberg was closed during the Cold War, but rebuilt and reopened in 2015.
context_section_description: Initially all traffic ran from Hof over the Hof–Eger line and on southwards to Regensburg and Munich. In 1877 when the Bavarian State Railway opened a direct line from Hof via Marktredwitz to Regensburg, the level of traffic fell. Nevertheless, the line was exceptionally important in providing the industries around Hof with Bohemian coal.
  After the Second World War the section of the railway on the territory of Czechoslovakia was transferred without compensation to the Czechoslovak State Railways (ČSD). Through passenger services from Hof to Eger were no longer operated. Passenger trains from the direction of Hof ran through to Selb Stadt station. From now on the ČSD ran its passenger trains from Asch (since 1945: Aš) through on the former Asch–Adorf Lokalbahn to Hranice v Čechách (Roßbach). The whole line remained open for goods traffic, because the porcelain industry in Bavaria was dependent on supplies of raw materials from Bohemia.
  In the 1970s the German section of line from Selb via Plößberg to Oberkotzau was downgraded to a branch line. In the Czech Republic the track is still classified today as a main line (celostátní draha).
  In the 1990s the Hof–Eger railway was cut on the Bavarian side by a ring road around the town of Selb and the section from Selb to Plößberg and the border was officially closed on 29 September 1996. As a result, rail traffic from Hof via Aš to Cheb was no longer possible. In 2015 the line to Aš was reconstructed and reopened in December 2015.
caption: Aš station (2006)
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