Friday, May 6, 2011

the Berlin - Potsdam railway, 1847


An oil painting (42 x 52 cm) by Adolf Friedrich Erdmann von Menzel from 1847 showing a train on the Berlin-Potsdamer Bahn.  This had been opened in 1838, a distance of 26 km from the old Potsdamer Bahnhof in Berlin.  It was extended in 1846 to Magdeburg, a distance of 142 km from Berlin.

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