First railway line by country

25 comments
  1. The first railway in Russia was actually only connecting Saint Petersburg with the tsar’s residence outside the city and not open to the public of course.

    The second railway line connecting Moscow with St Petersburg was only opened in 1851.

  2. Not sure where you get your dates from, but I don’t see how they are correct. The wikipedia page you link to says that in France the first line was operated in 1827, and I can only imagine that for Britain its earlier than that.

  3. Not sure on the data here. The first steam train journey in the U.K. was in 1804 and the first commercial steam rail was in 1812

  4. The first railway on today’s territory of Romania was the Oravița-Bazias (1854), for freight traffic. The first railway built for passenger traffic was the Szeged–Timișoara railway, which connected Timișoara to the railway network in 1857.

  5. I’m not sure, but I think that on land of current Poland first was Warsaw-Virnna railway, and if that’s true, than accurate date for Pl would be 1845 ( opening first part Warsaw- Grodzisk)

  6. *Kong Christian den Ottendes Østersø Jernbane* opened in 18 September 184**4** and was 31% owned by the Danish state.

  7. I don’t understand how the colors on these types of maps are always so bad. If you can’t read it in grayscale, pick better colors. Easy check.

Leave a Reply