Bayerisch Eisenstein railway station

Bayerisch Eisenstein/Železná Ruda-Alžbětín station is a railway station on the border of southeast Germany and the Czech Republic. It forms the junction between the Bavarian Forest railway from Plattling to Bayerisch Eisenstein, which was started in 1874 by the Bavarian Eastern Railway Company and completed by the Royal Bavarian State Railways, and the Pilsen–Markt Eisenstein railway built by the Pilsen–Priesen railway in what was then Bohemia. The national border between Germany and the Czech Republic runs through the middle of the station building.ConstructionThe basis for this railway junction was the Bavarian-Austrian state treaty of 21 June 1851. On the Bohemian side, the Pilsen–Priesen(–Komotau) railway company built the missing section from Neuern to Eisenstein station and opened it on 20 October 1877. On the German side, after the Bavarian Ostbahn was nationalised on 10 May 1875, the line was completed by the Royal Bavarian State Railways and the last section from Ludwigsthal to Eisenstein was opened to railway traffic on 15 November 1877.