Portal:Trains/Selected picture/Week 5, 2007

A train on the Ostbahn, the first railway on the German island of Sylt in 1894.

The Ostbahn was the first railway on the island, inaugurated on July 8, 1888, connecting Westerland to the port of Munkmarsch, a distance of 4.2 km (2.6 mi). This metre gauge railway later became part of the Sylter Inselbahn.