Subject: Re: Passing foreign territory
Date: May 10, 2001 @ 07:59
Author: Peter Smaardijk ("Peter Smaardijk" <smaardijk@...>)
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--- In BoundaryPoint@y..., "Peter Smaardijk" <smaardijk@y...> wrote:
> The German railroad between Neusalza-Spremberg and Taubenheim,
> running for a short stretch through the Czech rep. (the so-
> called "Schluckenauer Zipfel").

I suspect that this name applies to all of the Czech territory around
the city of Sluknov (caron on S).
>
> The German railroad between Zittau and Goerlitz runs through Poland
> for two stretches. One of them is linked to the main net in Poland,
> but there is another, very short stretch (near Trzciniec),
> shortcutting a bend in the river Neisse, too.

This description is not accurate. The short stretch is in Germany and
in between the two Polish ones.

More information about these stretches can be found at
http://www.agnld.uni-potsdam.de/~martin/Eisenbahn/Strecken/zittau-
goerlitz.html A little scheme of the situation is at
http://www.agnld.uni-
potsdam.de/~martin/Eisenbahn/Strecken/Krzewina/strecke.html .

Peter S.