A railway reached Gbely in 1892 — the branch line that runs up the Záhorie plain from Kúty towards Holíč and Skalica. It carried goods, but what it mostly carried at first was people: this was the height of the emigration from Slovakia to America, and a poor village on sand sent its share. Nobody standing on the new platform in 1892 could have guessed what would be leaving on that track twenty-five years later. The line still runs and the station is still in the town.V roku 1892 prišla do Gbelov železnica — trať, ktorá vedie záhorskou rovinou od Kútov na Holíč a Skalicu. Vozila tovar, ale spočiatku vozila najmä ľudí: bol to vrchol vysťahovalectva zo Slovenska do Ameriky a chudobná dedina na piesku odviedla svoj podiel. Nikto, kto v roku 1892 stál na novom nástupišti, netušil, čo bude po tej koľaji odchádzať o dvadsaťpäť rokov. Trať premáva dodnes a stanica je stále v meste.
