2-913-924 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Flensburg, 1854. Opening of the British-built Royal Danish Railway by Frederick VII, King of Denmark. The town lies at the tip of the Flensburg Firth, an inlet of the Baltic Sea. ' Flensburg, containing about 18,000 inhabitants, is a remarkably well-built, beautifully situated, and highly interesting town. It combines many of the most quaint features of a medieval age...[It] is quite on a par with towns of a like size in countries boasting of a more luxurious civilisation than Denmark, and it is in course of being lighted with gas...The port charges at Flensburg are exceedingly small, and the facilities for all shipping purposes admirable - the harbour being completely landlocked twenty miles from the coast, and there being ample depth of water, and no rise or fall of tide, requiring expensive contrivances for loading or unloading...'. From "Illustrated London News", 1854.