Item no.: EK-6307
- Description
| Brand | |
| EK-Verlag | |
| product type | |
| catalogs, books & software | |
| technical & model details | |
| gauge | neutral |
| Age notice | not suitable under 14 years |
112 pages, approx. 180 illustrations, format 300 x 210 mm, author: Andreas Giller.
Kassel developed into a railway junction early on. The first railway lines were opened in 1848 and 1849. The first east-west connection, the Kurfürst-Friedrich-Wilhelm Nordbahn, finally ran via Bebra to Gerstungen. The Main-Weser Railway connected the cities of Kassel and Gießen as a north-south connection. Particular attention is paid to the importance of the Kassel depot in high-quality long-distance passenger and freight transport.
In addition, Kassel developed into an important industrial location and the largest city in northern Hesse with companies producing rail vehicles. Henschel and the Wegmann and Credé wagon factories are particularly worth mentioning here.
In addition to the German state railways, with their stations and the railway operations and repair works, the book also deals with the private railways and inner-city industrial railways that originate from Kassel. Local public transport with buses and trains is also described in detail in words and pictures.
Ek-Verlag is mainly associated with the monthly Eisenbahn Kurier, which was first published in 1966. However, EK-Verlag offers even more, namely a varied program in the areas of historical railway and locomotive technology as well as railway and transport history, model railways, urban transport and rail vehicles.
