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Horse-drawn railway (1830) from Prague to Lány, third-oldest public railway in continental Europe after Saint-Étienne–Andrézieux and České Budějovice–Linz. Most was converted to steam later; smaller sections operated as horse-drawn until 1873. Ruins protected near Lány.
This was the first railway to reach what is now Prague, running through Kladno and Stochov to Lány. Horses pulled the wagons from 1830. Most of the route was later rebuilt for steam traction and folded into the Buštěhradská dráha, which survives today as line 120. A shorter stretch kept running with horses until 1873, when it was dismantled. What remains near Lány is now protected as a cultural monument.
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