Free City of Kraków
On 1 March 1844 the Senate of the Free City of Kraków received the commission for the building of a railway line to Myslowitz (present-day Mysłowice), a border town in Prussian Upper Silesia. The line with a length of was inaugurated on 13 October 1847; the continuation by the Upper Silesian Railway to Breslau (Wrocław) opened five days later. In Szczakowa, the line adjoined the border with Russian Congress Poland and the Warsaw–Vienna railway line at "Granica" station (present-day Sosnowiec Maczki). From 1848 the Emperor Ferdinand Northern Railway line to Vienna could be reached via Oderberg (Bohumín) in Austrian Silesia. By 1849 the company owned and operated eight Borsig steam locomotives.