Prince William Railway
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The Prince William Railway (German: Prinz-Wilhelm-Eisenbahn) was the first horse-drawn railway in Germany.
The Deilthaler Railway Company (Deilthaler Eisenbahn Aktiengesellschaft), created in 1828, built it as a narrow gauge (82 cm) line that ran for a Prussian mile (7,532 metres) along the Deilbach valley from Hinsbeck, a suburb of Kupferdreh (now part of Essen), to Nierenhof near Langenberg (now part of Velbert). On 20 September 1831 the railway was opened by Prince William, the brother of the King of Prussia at the time, and renamed in honour of the prince.
It operated as a horse-drawn railway carrying coal until 1844, but from 1833 it also carried passengers. In 1847, it was converted to standard gauge, extended north to Steele Süd and south to Vohwinkel (in Wuppertal), converted to steam operation and renamed the Steele-Vohwinkler Eisenbahn. The route is now used by S9 of the Rhein-Ruhr S-Bahn.
[edit] References
- This article incorporates information from the equivalent article on the German Wikipedia.
- Prinz-Wilhelm-Eisenbahn - Die erste Eisenbahn-Aktiengesellschaft auf deutschem Boden, J. Rainer Busch and H.G. Deilmann, Essen 1992 (German)
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Coordinates: 51°18′13″N 7°07′15″E / 51.30361°N 7.12083°E
