early 1870s The railway takes the gorgeTiesňavu si berie železnica

In the early 1870s the Košice–Bohumín railway was driven through the gorge, blasted into the rock below the castle, and Žilina became a junction where lines met. The effect on the river trade was immediate and fatal. A raft took days, could only run when the water was high enough and killed men in a bad season; a goods wagon ran all year and did not care about the rocks. Within two generations rafting was finished as a livelihood, and today rafts run below Strečno only in summer, for visitors — the same trip with the danger taken out.Začiatkom sedemdesiatych rokov 19. storočia prerazila tiesňavou Košicko-bohumínska železnica, odstrelená do skaly priamo pod hradom, a zo Žiliny sa stal uzol, kde sa trate stretávajú. Na riečny obchod to zapôsobilo okamžite a smrteľne. Plť išla niekoľko dní, mohla vyraziť len pri dostatočnej vode a v zlej sezóne brala životy; nákladný vagón chodil po celý rok a na kamene v koryte sa nepýtal. Do dvoch generácií pltníctvo ako obživa skončilo a dnes plte pod Strečnom premávajú len v lete, pre návštevníkov — tá istá cesta, z ktorej vybrali nebezpečenstvo.