German Railway history begins with the opening…

December 1835 CE

German Railway history begins with the opening of the steam-hauled Bavarian Ludwigsbahn between Nürnberg and Fürth.

This had been preceded by the opening, on September 20, 1831, of the horse-hauled Prinz-Wilhelm-Eisenbahn, a narrow gauge (eighty-two centimeters) coal-carrying railway that runs for a Prussian mile (seventy-five hundred and thirty-two  meters) along the Deilbach valley from Hinsbeck near Essen) to Nierenhof.

The Bavarian Ludwigsbahn commences operations on December 7, 1835, with the Adler (Eagle) locomotive built by Stephenson and Co. in Newcastle upon Tyne.

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