title: Košice–Bohumín Railway
text: # Košice–Bohumín Railway
  
  The Košice–Bohumín Railway (Czech: Košicko-bohumínská dráha, Slovak: Košicko-bohumínska železnica, Polish: Kolej koszycko-bogumińska, German: Kaschau-Oderberger Bahn, Hungarian: Kassa-Oderbergi Vasút) can refer to:
  
  * originally: A private railway company established in 1869 in Austria-Hungary. In 1924 the company was nationalised and put under the Czechoslovak State Railways.
  * nowadays: The main track of this company (between Košice and Bohumín). The Košice-Bohumín track connected the industrial area of Silesia with the city of Košice in what is now eastern Slovakia. It was completed in 1872.
  
  ## Tracks of the company
  
  * Košice – Bohumín (350 km, construction started in 1869, completed in 1869–1872), including:
     * Bohumín – Český Těšín completed on 5 May 1869
     * Český Těšín – Žilina completed on 8 January 1871
     * Žilina – Poprad completed on 8 December 1871
     * Poprad – Spišská Nová Ves completed on 12 December 1871
     * Spišská Nová Ves – Kysak completed on 12 March 1872
     * (Košice) – Kysak – Prešov (completed on 1 September 1870)
  * Štrbské Pleso–Štrba rack railway (gauge 1000 mm, completed in 1896)
  * Tatra Electric Railway (gauge 1000 mm, completed in 1912)
  