Viennese Courier reports:

"His Imperial Highness Ferdinand l of Austria today signed a Railway Law permitting and encouraging such organisations and constructions and devices in all his domains. By Imperial Edict a company is now listed on the Wiener Börse for the purpose of the construction of Railways: 'Emperor Ferdinand Eastern Railway'. His Imperial Highness owns 20% of the company and has appointed himself temporary Chairman. He wishes it to be known that the Empire is embarking on a full Railway network to unite all it's peoples.

The first planned route is Vienna to Buda and Pest which will be fully engine run. 'Emperor Ferdinand Eastern Railway' Deputy Company Chairman Salomon Mayer von Rothschild invites any and all contractors to apply. Further plans are understood to involve a line north to Prague and south to Venice."