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Prussian Eastern Railway
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Prussian Eastern Railway
The
Prussian Eastern Railway
was the railway in the eastern
Kingdom of Prussia
until 1918. Its main route, approximately long, connected the capital,
Berlin
with the cities of
Danzig (Gdansk)
and
Königsberg (Kaliningrad)
. At
Eydtkuhnen (Chernyshevskoye)
it reached the
German Empire
's border with the
Russian Empire
. The first part of the line opened in 1851, reaching Eydtkuhnen in 1860. By March 1880 the total route length reached , with a main parallel route in the south via
Bromberg (Bydgoszcz)
and
Thorn (Torun)
to
Insterburg (Chernyakhovsk)
. The lines were the first part of the later
Prussian State Railways
.
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