Nordrhein-Westfalen
New Year's Eve 1874. Over a railway viaduct hundreds of metres long near Wesel, Germany, a first train thunders over what will become the transnational railway line between Paris and Hamburg.
Griethausener Eisenbahnbrücke
An iron railway bridge has stretched across the Old Rhine close to the Dutch border for over a century and a half.
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No expense was spared in building the more than 46-kilometre-long railway line between the Dutch town of Lage Zwaluwe and Hertogenbosch. Thus, in the 1880s, the construction of a spacious railway bridge above the Bossche inundation field began.
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