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"ref": "1856 [1855], “Verein für Eisenbahnkunde zu Berlin - Protocoll vom 11. December 1855”, in G. Erbkam, editor, Zeitschrift für Bauwesen, Berlin: Ernst & Korn, page 429:",
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