3-028-465 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

A ship that is to carry trains over sixty-five miles of open sea: the train-ferry "Deutschland", 1909.'The "Deutschland" is one of the four British-built train-ferries that are to carry trains between Sassnitz in Germany and Trelleborg in Sweden, a distance of sixty-five miles. The train that is to be conveyed across the sea will enter the after end of the vessel from a specially constructed landing-stage, and will be disembarked on to a similar landing-stage. A complete train of from eight to ten coaches can be carried. The service is to be inaugurated on the 6th of this month, it is expected, in the presence of the Kaiser and the King of Sweden'. From "Illustrated London News", 1909.