4 December 1898 · 18 June 1899 · 21 December 1899 · 1904 The railway ends here, for six monthsŽeleznica tu končí — na šesť mesiacov

On 4 December 1898 the branch line from Kraľovany on the Žilina–Košice main railway was opened as far as Oravský Podzámok, and for the next six months this village was the end of the line. On 18 June 1899 it was extended to Tvrdošín, on 21 December 1899 to Suchá Hora, and in 1904 it was joined through to Nowy Targ in Poland. Building it up the narrow valley took many cuttings and embankments, an 87-metre tunnel and an 88-metre bridge over the Orava. It also killed an older trade: for centuries timber had gone down the Orava to the Váh on rafts, and once a train could carry the wood the rafts stopped.Štvrtého decembra 1898 otvorili odbočnú trať z Kraľovian na hlavnej železnici Žilina – Košice až po Oravský Podzámok a nasledujúcich šesť mesiacov bola táto dedina koncovou stanicou. Osemnásteho júna 1899 trať predĺžili do Tvrdošína, 21. decembra 1899 do Suchej Hory a v roku 1904 ju spojili s Nowým Targom v Poľsku. Stavba úzkou dolinou si vyžiadala množstvo zárezov a násypov, 87-metrový tunel a 88-metrový most cez Oravu. Zabila aj staršie remeslo: drevo stáročia plávalo po Orave do Váhu na pltiach, a keď ho dokázal odviezť vlak, pltníctvo skončilo.