Thuringian Railway
Together with the "Frederick William Northern Railway" and the Thuringian Railway, it formed a continuous route between Westphalia and Halle/Leipzig via Erfurt, avoiding the territory of the Kingdom of Hanover. Over the next quarter of a century this route was further shortened by the opening of the Halle–Kassel line (via Nordhausen, completed in 1872) and the Solling Railway (via Northeim, opened in 1878).