"Gary Stoltman" <stopan@optonline.net> schrieb:
Hallo Wilfried:
Thanks you very much. If we now rule out Osnabrück, do you have any
knowledge of Düsseldorf or Muenster?Gary
Hallo Gary,
Münster was connected by rail on 26.5.1848 to Hamm, and there are connections to the Belgian border via Düsseldorf-Köln-Aachen. I have no knowledge of the continuation at that time in Belgium and France, but I think that exists.
Wilfried
Wilfried:
Thank you very much for this lead. At this time in the USA, there were many
small independently owned railroads that used different gauge track. This
wasn't corrected until the country's Civil War. 1. Are any list members
aware if that sort of gauge problem existed in the NW German states
and/or between that area and the Netherlands & Belgium.
2. Were the railroads state owned? I have seen the French railroads of that
time referred to as, "the state railroads," therefore leading me to
believe that all French railroads operated with one gauge of track.
Gary
Gary Stoltman schrieb:...
Gary perhaps some book-titles might give some help:
- Gall, Lothar und manfred Pohl : Die Eisenbahn in Deutschland. Von den Anf�ngen
bis zur Gegenwart. M�nchen : Verlag C.H.Beck 1999,494 Seiten, ISBN:3 406 45817 3
deals a bit about the beginnings about 1830/40, but mostly on the rest up to now,
but gives a literature hint to:
- Banken, Rolf : Die Finanzierung der Rhein-Weser und der K�ln-Mindener Eisen-
bahngesellschaft 1836 - 1844, which is an article in: 150 Jahre K�ln-Mindener
Eisenbahn (Ausstellungskatalog). Hrsg. v. Karl Peter Ellerbrock / Marina
Schuster, Essen 1997, S.154 -160
Don't have the latter book and haven't read it, but seems to deal exactly with
the local railway history, you are interested in. Greetings Hans Peter Albers