down in railway history with a hitherto inconceivable time record of 13 hours and 4 minutes for the Vienna to Trieste route. To achieve this, it broke new ground by enabling rail vehicles to cross the Alps

purpose: to provide cheap transport for timber from the then barely accessible Bohemian Forest to Vienna. The fact that it is hailed by contemporaries to be the "eighth world wonder" illustrates the immense

including the fact that the rooftop copper produced here was used to cover St. Stephen's Cathedral in Vienna, for example. In the Ehrenfriedersdorf tin mine , visitors get to know the everyday life of miners