Museum railway to Zubrnice and walk to Bukova mountain

The Zubrinka Museum Railway, also known as the T3 tourist line, runs several times a day on weekends and holidays from April to the end of October. The journey to Zubrnice from Střekov railway station in Ústí nad Labem takes about 40 minutes and offers many interesting views during the journey. In Zubrnice, the first place to visit is the local Railway Museum, where you can see a working model railway track, a historic transport office, historic coaches and railway engines. The village of Zubrnice itself is largely part of the Open-Air Museum (also known as the open-air museum), which presents life in the village at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries. It consists of a collection of buildings of folk architecture and includes a period well and farmhouses in the village square, a shop, a mill by the stream, a school behind the church, a drying room, granaries, barns, a chapel and a church.

The trip to Zubrnice can be extended by climbing Beech Mountain. From Zubrnice you can take the red or green hiking trail. We choose the red trail. The trail is approximately 4.5 km long and leads through charming nature with diverse fauna and flora. Moreover, along the way you can see the remains of the extinct settlement Stará Homole. After ascending Beech Mountain, you will be greeted by the tower of the television transmitter. It is a distinctive landmark of the Bohemian Central Highlands. However, this tower does not serve as a lookout point, so you have to continue along the red road to the local Humboldt lookout point. It offers a beautiful view of the Elbe River valley and the surrounding peaks of the Bohemian Central Highlands. Go back down the green trail, which joins the red trail again at the last 1 km. You can then return to Ústí nad Labem by the Zubrnice Museum Railway or by a regular bus that runs directly from the village square in Zubrnice.

Length of route: 9 km
Difficulty: mild to moderate

Route on the maps.

Refreshments on the route and in the surroundings

Guesthouse U Pernekrů - Zubrnice
Konírna pub (including private accommodation) - Týniště
Hospudka Šmak - Malé Březno
Restaurant U dubu- Velké Březno
Restaurant Tivoli - Velké Březno
Hospůdka U Lípy - Ústí nad Labem (Střekov)

Stops

About the line and the tourist line T3
The railway line Velké Březno - Zubrnice - Lovečkovice - Verneřice and its branch Lovečkovice - Úštěk with a total length of 19 km were put into operation in 1890 and cancelled in 1978. Operation was resumed on 28 October 2010.

In 1998, the section Velké Březno - Lovečkovice was declared a cultural monument.

Nowadays, this tourist line is integrated within the Transport of the Ústí nad Labem Region and regular historical trains run every year from April to the end of October. In 2025, the tourist line T3 is in operation on weekends and public holidays from 29 March to 2 November 2025.

The line marked T3 starts in the regional city of Ústí nad Labem at the Střekov station, then runs along the right bank of the Elbe to Velký Březno, where it turns and climbs another 6 km from the Elbe River to the Bohemian Central Highlands on the second steepest line in the Czech Republic to the final station Zubrnice-Týniště. The stops Svádov, Valtířov, Malé Březno stop and Leština are on the sign.

T32
Since 2019, the line has been extended further thanks to the only historic bus line in the Czech Republic under the designation T32 (during summer holidays) in the section Zubrnice - Lovečkovice - Úštěk and back. This line runs during the holidays (timetable in the gallery below).