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In 1837, the first steam railway started in Austria on the Emperor Ferdinand
Northern Railway between Vienna-Floridsdorf and Deutsch-Wagram. The oldest
continually working steam engine in the world also runs in Austria: the GKB 671
built in 1860, has never been taken out of service, and is still used for special
excursions.
In 1838, the third steam locomotive to be built in Germany, the Saxonia, was
manufactured by the Maschinenbaufirma Übigau near Dresden, built by Prof. Johann
Andreas Schubert. The first independently designed locomotive in Germany was the
Beuth, built by August Borsig in 1841. The first locomotive produced by Henschel-
Werke in Kassel, the Drache, was delivered in 1848.
The first steam locomotives operating in Italy were the Bayard and the Vesuvio,
running on the Napoli-Portici line, in the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies.
The first railway line over Swiss territory was the Strasbourg–Basle line opened in
1844. Three years later, in 1847, the first fully Swiss railway line, the Spanisch
Brötli Bahn, from Zürich to Baden was opened.