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    The Kanonenbahn (literally "Cannons Railway") is a former German military strategic railway between Berlin and Metz via Güsten, Wetzlar, Koblenz and Trier...
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    Kanonenbahn (Cannons Railway) between Berlin and Metz, built between 1877 and 1882. Wetzlar used to be an important rail junction on the Kanonenbahn....
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    the best known of all strategic railways is probably the so-called Kanonenbahn (English: Cannons Railway), which linked Berlin with Metz, and was opened...
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    Wetzlar via Lahnau. It was opened in 1878 as part of the Cannons Railway (Kanonenbahn) from Berlin to Metz, but was closed in 1983. The 18.04 km long Lollar–Wetzlar...
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    connecting to the Leinefelde–Treysa section of the Cannons Railway (German: Kanonenbahn). The station is frequented by 2,500 passengers daily. The station is...
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    abandoned in the 1960s. The line was built as part of the Cannons Railway (Kanonenbahn) and opened in 1879. The line leaves Koblenz Hauptbahnhof and diverges...
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    service and modernised. The old line, part of a closed section of the Kanonenbahn, was joined to the Göttingen–Bebra line north and south of Eschwege West...
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  • sections between 1875 and 1880 as part of the Cannons Railway (German: Kanonenbahn), a military strategic railway. The Leinefelde–Silberhausen section was...
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    the Berlin-Blankenheim railway ran southwestwards, a section of the Kanonenbahn rail route to Metz in Alsace-Lorraine. The old station hall was damaged...
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    railways also connected with the station. The latter route was part of the Kanonenbahn (Cannons Railway) between Berlin and Metz. With the construction of the...
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    examples were procured in 1877 for the Berlin-Wetzlar railway, known as the Kanonenbahn ('Cannons' line). Other deliveries went to the various state and private...
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  • the Région fortifiée de Metz from the later ligne Maginot. Terminus of Kanonenbahn Berlin - Metz, a strategic railway line. L’Express, No. 2937, du 18 au...
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    town between Berlin and Metz (the latter now in France), known as the Kanonenbahn, or "Cannons Railway". Erich Rohde Schuhfabriken (shoes) Konvekta AG...
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    Oberlahnstein. In 1879 came the construction of the Hohenrhein Railway Bridge (Kanonenbahn) and the new station in Niederlahnstein. In 1885 of the town rights of...
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    consisted of express trains to Hanover and Cologne via the Lehrter Bahn, Kanonenbahn trains to Dessau, trains to Königsberg and Danzig on the Preußische Ostbahn...
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  • plan. So the Metz railway station was directly linked to Berlin via the Kanonenbahn Cannons Railway. In parallel, the district should be a symbol of dynamism...
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    at the same time. In addition, the also planned, militarily important Kanonenbahn ("Cannons Railway") would have connections to the north (Hannover–Göttingen)...
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    through Bad Belzig and Güterglück (the strategic railway known as the Kanonenbahn, the "Cannons Railway"). At the same time the line was upgraded for a...
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    railway line between Berlin and Metz, the so-called Cannons Railway (Kanonenbahn). The Prussian fortifications of Koblenz were abandoned and torn down...
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    the project to build a line from Berlin to Metz, the Cannons Railway (Kanonenbahn). This strategic railway used the Halle-Kassel line between Blankenheim...
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    stations of Kyllburg, Bitburg-Erdorf and Speicher. As part of the strategic Kanonenbahn ("cannons railway") from Berlin to Metz, now in France, the railway from...
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    Leinefelde–Silberhausen section of the line became part of the Cannons Railway (Kanonenbahn) and this section was duplicated. As a result of the Treaty of Versailles...
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    Güterglück, it crosses a disused section of the Berlin-Blankenheim railway (Kanonenbahn). After about three kilometres, the line ends at the former Trebnitz...
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    together with the rest of the Moselle line, which formed part of the Kanonenbahn (English: Cannons Railway) (Berlin–Metz). Earlier, upon the opening of...
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    of the line was incorporated into the strategic railway known as the Kanonenbahn ("Cannons Railway") built between Berlin and Metz. During the 1960s,...
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  • were initially intended for services on the so-called Cannons Railway (Kanonenbahn) from Berlin to Wetzlar and Metz. Later they were also employed on other...
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    Thionville and Metz. To this end, the two cities were specially served by the Kanonenbahn Berlin - Metz, a strategic railway line. The aim of Germany was to protect...
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    or 1929. The railway line was part of the so-called Cannons Railway (Kanonenbahn) between Berlin and Metz. The line between Wellen and Perl was completely...
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  • the Berlin-Blankenheim railway, opened as part of the Cannons Railway (Kanonenbahn) project, was a link from the Berlin Stadtbahn via Belzig, Wiesenburg...
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  • in the 1870s, the Berlin–Blankenheim railway was built as part of the Kanonenbahn ("cannons railway") project, which connected Güsten on the one hand directly...
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