ABSTRACT
A remarkable number of scholarly studies have described the changes in urban structures and social life when railways entered cities in the nineteenth century. At this time, many municipal authorities were eager to get a direct rail connection, or at least hoped to be near a railway track. They wished to improve the economic situation of their community, exploiting more distant markets by the use of the faster traffic connection. Railways guaranteed speedy transport of the products demanded by the fast-growing industrial sites and the expanding population in the cities. They boosted the economic revolution in the second half of the century. Both investors and ordinary citizens achieved increasing prosperity through the railway business and the extension of transport range. 1 Therefore municipal authorities accepted the tremendous impact of the new transport system on city planning and urban development, which transformed former medieval towns into hotspots for industry, trade and sightseeing. 2
