Cannons Railway
Sign in to save300px|thumb|The Gare de Metz-Ville|railway station of Metz was connected to the Kanonenbahn. The Kanonenbahn (literally "Cannons Railway") is a former German military strategic railway between Berlin and Metz via Güsten, Wetzlar, Koblenz and Trier. Metz is in Alsace-Lorraine, which was annexed by Germany after the Franco-Prussian War.
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- Instance of
- strategic railway
- Country
- Germany
- Image
- Kanonenbahn Wittlich.jpg
- Length
- 805
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- Commons category
- Kanonenbahn
- date of official opening
- 1882-00-00
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300px|thumb|The Gare de Metz-Ville|railway station of Metz was connected to the Kanonenbahn. The Kanonenbahn (literally "Cannons Railway") is a former German military strategic railway between Berlin and Metz via Güsten, Wetzlar, Koblenz and Trier. Metz is in Alsace-Lorraine, which was annexed by Germany after the Franco-Prussian War.
Other railways, such as the Glan Valley Railway (Glantalbahn), built mainly for military strategic reasons, were also colloquially known as the Kanonenbahn, but the link between Berlin and Metz is the best known of them.
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