2-913-926 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Tonning, on the Eyder, 1854. Opening of the British-built Royal Danish Railway by Frederick VII, King of Denmark. 'In this commodious and finely-situated coast terminus of the Railway, the benefits of its position are becoming evident, in its being the marine head-quarters of the fast-growing traffic between the two countries. It is by way of Tonning that the capital of Denmark, and consequently nearly all the Baltic ports, may be reached with a great saving of time, distance, and inconvenience...while by the junction which the Royal Danish effects with the Kiel and Altona lines, all those great arteries of German and Prussian Railway Continental communication radiating from Hamburg, may be said to be placed at the command of the Danes...it is at Tonning that are concentrated for exportation at Lowestoft...those immense herds of cattle which stud the fertile plains of Jutland'. From "Illustrated London News", 1854.