Eastern European railways in transition: nineteenth to twenty-first centuries

During the nineteenth century, railway lines spread rapidly across Europe, linking the continent in ways unimaginable to previous generations.

By the beginning of the twentieth century the great cities of the continent were linked by a complex and extensive rail network.

Yet this high-point of interconnectivity, was abruptly cut-off after 1945, as the Cold War built barriers - both physical and ideological - between east and west.