1920 The border stops the roadHranica zastaví cestu

On 28 July 1920 the Conference of Ambassadors divided the disputed parts of Orava and Spiš between Czechoslovakia and Poland. Twelve villages of northern Orava, about 389 square kilometres with some sixteen thousand people, went to Poland — the country Trstená had traded with for five hundred years now began a few kilometres up its own road, and a promised plebiscite in those villages had been cancelled. In 1924 the powers settled the last of the argument, awarding Javorina and Ždiar to Czechoslovakia. The branch railway still ran on past the town to Suchá Hora on the border in those years, but through traffic never recovered from the wars, that section fell out of use, and Trstená has been the end of the line ever since.Dvadsiateho ôsmeho júla 1920 rozdelila konferencia veľvyslancov sporné časti Oravy a Spiša medzi Česko-Slovensko a Poľsko. Dvanásť severooravských obcí, asi 389 kilometrov štvorcových a okolo šestnásťtisíc obyvateľov, pripadlo Poľsku — krajina, s ktorou Trstená obchodovala päťsto rokov, sa zrazu začínala pár kilometrov po jej vlastnej ceste, a sľúbený plebiscit v tých dedinách sa zrušil. V roku 1924 veľmoci dorokovali zvyšok sporu a Javorinu so Ždiarom priznali Česko-Slovensku. Železnica vtedy ešte viedla za mesto do Suchej Hory na hranici, no priama doprava sa z vojen nikdy nespamätala, tento úsek prestal slúžiť a Trstená je odvtedy konečnou stanicou.