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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.
1847 – First train in Switzerland, the Limmat, on the Spanisch-Brotli-Bahn Railway line. 1848 – First railway line in Spain, built between Barcelona and Mataró. 1848 – First railway in South America, British Guyana. The railway was designed, surveyed and built by the British-American architect and artist Frederick Catherwood. John ...
The Bavarian Ludwig Railway (Bayerische Ludwigseisenbahn or Ludwigsbahn) was the first steam-hauled railway opened in Germany. The Königlich privilegierte Ludwigs-Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft ("Royal Privileged Ludwig Railway Company", later called the Ludwigs-Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft ) received a concession to build a railway from Nuremberg to Fürth ...
The first German railway line was opened in Bavaria in 1835. This was the Ludwigsbahn (Ludwig's Railway) from Nuremberg to Fürth which opened on 7 December 1835. This was the start of a railway building frenzy, which rapidly spread across the state. The second Bavarian railway line, from Munich to Augsburg, soon followed.
The manager of the new company was the well-known railway engineer, Paul Camille von Denis (1795 – 1872), who had not only built the first German railway line from Nuremberg to Fürth, but also the first railway lines in other German states. Von Denis succeeded in building the routes named in the concession to operational status within just 5 ...
Map of the railway lines in Baden 1870. The Grand Duchy of Baden was an independent state in what is now southwestern Germany until the creation of the German Empire in 1871. It had its own state-owned railway company, the Grand Duchy of Baden State Railways (Großherzoglich Badische Staatseisenbahnen or G.Bad.St.E.), which was