In an apparatus for the transportation of horizontally split, boxless sand casting mold for foundry purposes, from a molding station via a casting station to the knocking-out point by means of a series of transport plates which are guided one against the other along a track and whose length in each case, in the direction of transport, is equal to or only slightly larger than the corresponding length of the casting mold placed on top in each case, each transport plate has, at least at one of its ends, preferably the end facing away from the molding station, a face strip arranged substantially vertical to it and directed upward, which prevents an offset between transport plate and casting mold.