Although this stretch of railway that spans across much of Luxembourg was costly to construct, once it connects to the wooden rail tracks of Verdun—though the materials differ, the gauge and other technical parameters are completely identical—carriages running on the tracks can pass through directly.
Within France, the wooden railroads of Lorraine will be able to connect to parts of Verdun in a few months. By then, the iron ingots from Luxembourg could be transported in large quantities to Nancy for further refinement, or used to manufacture steam engines, boring machines, and other machinery.
At the same time, French industrial products could also be transported from Nancy to Luxembourg, and from there sold on to the Southern Netherlands and as far as the Netherlands.