We are making a journey with ICE 386 from Hamburg Hauptbahnhof to Padborg just over the Danish border half way up the Jutland peninsular. We're now at Neum?nster 73 kilometres from? the Hauptbahnhof. The journey has so far has taken 50 minutes.
About ICE 386. This service is really a shake down exercise for developing the international route between Berlin, Hamburg and Aarhus / Copenhagen.
One of the highlights of our journey is the Rensburg Hochbr?cker over the Nord-Ostsee Kannal. The railway arrived at Rensburg before the canal - in 1845 from the south and in 1854 from the north. The lines joined in 1856 by means of a bridge over the Eider, the river that was later to be canalised.? In June 1887 canal construction work started at Holtenau near Kiel.? It took the 9,000 workers eight years to build. On June 21, 1895 the canal was officially opened by Kaiser Wilhelm II. To cope with the movements of a new breed of Battleships to be stationed at Kiel plans for enlargement of the canal were proposed at the beginning of the 20th Cent. This would include a new railbridge to cross the larger / wider canal. Construction of the high-bridge began in 1911 and took just two years! Everything was open just in time for WW1!
We conclude our run at Padborg the first station in Denmark. RT 75

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