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Riesa, until 1839, 117 km, Leipzig–Dresden Railway Company, first German long-distance railway, first steam only railway in Germany, included first standard gauge rail tunnel in continental Europe 1838 22 September Berlin: Potsdam: Zehlendorf, 26.4 km, Berlin-Potsdam-Magdeburg Railway, first steam railway in Prussia: 1 December Brunswick ...
In the first half of the 19th century, opinions about the emerging railways in Germany varied widely. While business-minded people like Friedrich Harkort and Friedrich List saw in the railway the possibility of stimulating the economy and overcoming the patronization of little states, and were already starting railway construction in the 1820s and early 1830s, others feared the fumes and smoke ...
These include railway units that have no independent legal status. For railway companies in existence today, see the List of German railway companies. For the chronological order in which the first railways appeared in Germany see the List of the first German railways to 1870.
Route of Ludwig Railway Bayerische Ludwigs Bahn 1835/69 share certificate. Railway monument in Nuremberg in memory of the first German railway, Nürnberg-Fürth. Model of the first Nuremberg station of 1835 in the Nuremberg Transport Museum Model of the first Fürth station of 1835 in the Nuremberg Transport Museum The Adler replica from 1935 on its first trip after the reconstruction in 2007.
Deutsche Reichsbahn (East Germany) Deutsche Reichsbahn service ranks; G. List of the first German railways to 1870; Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg Friedrich-Franz Railway;
The Homburg Railway (German: Homburger Bahn) is an 18 km line from Frankfurt am Main to Bad Homburg in the German state of Hesse. It was opened in 1860 as one of the first railway lines in Germany . It is now part of the Rhine-Main S-Bahn line S5 to Friedrichsdorf .
The Berlin–Wrocław railway (German: Niederschlesisch-Märkische Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft, roughly translating as "Lower Silesian-Marcher Railway", NME) was a German private railway that connected Berlin (then capital of the March of Brandenburg, Mark Brandenburg) and Wrocław (in Lower Silesia, then part of Prussia, and called Breslau in German, now in Poland).
The first section of the Berlin–Magdeburg Railway was opened in 1838 as the Berlin-Potsdam Railway also known as trunk line (German: Stammbahn) and was the first railway line in Prussia. In 1846 it was extended to Magdeburg .