Salomon Mayer Rothschild and a joint stock company he provided the rationale for the Kaiser Ferdinands-Nordbahn (KFNB) from Vienna to North Moravia and Silesia that enabled official approval and financial
to Gloggnitz railway. In 1856 he became director of the western line from Vienna, the Kaiserin Elisabeth-Bahn (Empress Elisabeth Railway) from Vienna to Salzburg. The Elisabeth railway took over the hor
insurance company Schweizerische Rentenanstalt (Swiss Life). His statue stands in front of the Zürich Hauptbahnhof. The Alfred Escher Stiftung maintains his archive.
Katharine became leading shareholders to build the pioneering Rhineland railway (the Rheinische Eisenbahngesellschaft). In 1834, Catherine Englerth moved the mining property into an innovative joint-stock company
Augsburg, in which Maffei invested. It became part of the state railway, Königlische Bayerische Staats-Eisenbahn from 1846, and was extended to Ulm in 1854. The company also built steam ships, the first of [...] compound locomotive No 3634 of class S3/6 of the Bavarian State Railways, later 18.451 of Deutsches Bundesbahn. It was built in 1912 and was one of 159 of a class built between 1908 and 1931, worked all over
railway from Vienna to Raaber, a private concern built in 1840-46, which was later known as the Ostbahn and extended to Budapest. From 1840 until 1882 Haswell managed the Locomotivfabrik der StEG, which [...] steam locomotives in the Habsburg Empire. In 1855 it was taken over by state railway, Staats-Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft, and he became concerned with supplying locomotives for the Semmering line amongst other
cantonal council. From the 1870s he was increasing involved with railways particularly with the Nord-ost Bahn (NOB, north-eastern railway) and in 1894 with the help of a group of supporters dismissed the management [...] management and board of the company and became its President. He was known subsequently as the Eisenbahnkönig (railway king). The company’s workers went on strike in 1897 when Adolf’ Guyer-Zeller’s harsh [...] services until 1972. That section is now operated as a steam railway by the Zürcher Oberland Dampfbahnverein. The station at Neuthal enables passengers to visit the Museum-Spinnerei (Spinning Factory Museum)
e in price, and he became the principal supplier of locomotives to the Königlich Sächsische Staateisenbahnen (Saxon State Railway). By the late 1850s he was employing 1500 workers, a total that increased
Karl Ritter von Ghega was engineer of the Semmeringbahn (the Semmering railway), generally regarded as the first main line railway to pass through a region of high mountains, which was designated a UNESCO [...] served as a resident engineer on one of the Empire’s first strategic routes, the Emperor Ferdinand Nordbahn between Brno and Břechla (Lundenburg). In 1836-37 he studied railways in England and other countries [...] Empire’s railways he went to examine railways in the United States. On his return he began to plan the Sudbahn, the route linking Vienna to Graz and Ljubljana (Leibach) and ultimately to Trieste, the Empire’s
thousand examples were built, as well as passenger stock for the Vienna Stadtbahn, powerful rack locomotives for the Erzbergbahn and narrow gauge locomotives for mountain railways. Examples of his most [...] Viennese who was trained in Chemnitz and Dresden, and became chief mechanical engineer of the Austrian Sudbahn. Karl Golsdorf was born at Semmering, studied at the Technical University of Vienna, and spent some
