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The first plans to build a direct rail link between
Hamburg and Lübeck were put forward in 1831 by the Lübeck merchant Emil Müller and his father Nicholas Hermann Müller. After the French occupation of Lübeck, Nicholas Hermann Muller had been committed to improving its transport links. He established
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A new start was made in 1843, when Lübeck
Council decided that it would lead a project to build a railway to Hamburg and took the issue up with the Danish government. The Holstein area lying between Hamburg and Lübeck, however, was under the rule of the Danish king and the Danish court refused to
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of the survey work that had taken place; this upset the court and affected the simultaneous negotiations on the construction of the
Hamburg–Lübeck highway. The railway company was established and investors were sought (with the intention of issuing 15,000 shares at £ 20 sterling each), but share
386:) and put into service in 1864. In February 1869, the high traffic level led to a second ferry being put into service. Numerous breakdowns due to icing in winter and several accidents, however, showed clearly that the ferry would provide no lasting solution. With the annexation of the
190:. Among other reasons for the selection of the venue for the Germanists’ day had been that the blocking of rail services to Lübeck by Denmark was seen as a "national question", despite the remote location of Lübeck in Germany and the poor accessibility of the missing rail link.
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to carry out technical tests on the building of a crossing over the Elbe near
Lauenburg. After lengthy negotiations between the governments, it was finally decided to build a
336:(Lübeck station) in Hamburg. The LBE's route network in 1870 was 111.27 kilometres long. Heavy traffic on the line to Hamburg meant that a second track was built in 1875–76.
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560:(central station), when the LBE also extended its line to the station and closed its former station. The LBE also created a new station east of the Hauptbahnhof at
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to improve the remaining ramparts artistically. The division of the Möllner lake by a railway embankment was met with little enthusiasm by Lübeck's residents.
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Economically, the operation of the railway proved to be a success, so that the LBE was able to use its profits to build the Lübeck port railway and a
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Consent was given three days before the beginning of the German-nationalist public song festival in Lübeck, and three months before the start of the
147:, as well as Russia and France, the Danish government committed itself on 23 June 1847 to the construction of a railway from Lübeck to Büchen in the
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district, which considered that the trading activities of
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allow the building of a direct connection between the two cities. This was probably at the urging of
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was opened to the LBE station in Lübeck, and in 1871 the first continuous services operated between
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opened a line from Büchen to Lauenburg. The LBE had already established a committee in 1850 with funds of 7,000
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was opened from Mölln by the Prussian State Railways, connecting with the Ratzeburg–Hagenow line. In 1903, the
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of 1866, the military objections to a fixed Elbe crossing was removed. It was finally decided to build a
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