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| | Austria's Rail Transport |
 | | At the beginning of the nineteenth century increasing trade called for improved transport, and this led to the construction of Austria's first railway. |
 | | On March 31, 1808, a memorable day in Austria's railway history, Dr. von Gerstner, Professor of Mathematics in the University of Prague, proposed the construction of a railway line, a transport medium of which he had heard from England. |
 | | Gerstner advocated a horse railway from Linz to Joachimsmuhle, but left the project in the hands of his son, who in September, 1824, was granted by the Emperor Franz I the exclusive right of building a wood and iron road between Mauthausen, on the Danube, and Budweis (now called Ceske-Budejovice). |
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