Eastwards To Zittau
For our third morning, we were up and out early with the sun creeping over the horizon as we jumped on the tram to get to Dresden Hbf in time for an early Prague bound train eastwards for Zittau. Zittau is about as far east as you can go before you either cross the border into Chechia or Poland. Dawn at Theatreplatz. First light at Dresden Hbf and crossing the Elbe. The journey took about an hour and a half and we had a short walk out of the station to the narrow gauge Zittau Schmalspurbahn station outside. 99 749 awaits departure time from Zittau. The Zittau Schmalspurbahn is operated by a different company to the one that operates the other three lines we travelled on and is also a ‘Y’ shaped railway. From Zittau the line runs to the junction station of Bertsdorf before dividing to Oybin and Jonsdorf. The service we caught ran from Zittau to Oybin, back to Bertsdorf before going to Jonsdorf, back to Bertsdorf, to Oybin once again before returning to Zittau. The total leng...
