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Oberau Tunnel

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Saxonia Museum fuer saechsische Vaterlandskunde V 55 Der Eisenbahntunnel bei Oberau
Saxonia Museum fuer saechsische Vaterlandskunde V 55 Der Eisenbahntunnel bei Oberau

The Oberau Tunnel (Oberauer Tunnel) was the second railway tunnel in Germany after a railway tunnel on the Tollwitz–Dürrenberg Railway (Tollwitz-Dürrenberger Eisenbahn, a 585 mm gauge mining railway), but it was the first tunnel of a normal railway on the continent of Europe. It was driven between 1837 and 1839 on the Leipzig–Dresden railway by Freiberg miners and opened out in 1933/1934. Today only an obelisk commemorates this milestone in German railway history.

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Saxonia Museum fuer saechsische Vaterlandskunde V 55 Der Eisenbahntunnel bei Oberau
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