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ThePalatine Ludwig Railway Company (Pfälzische Ludwigsbahn-Gesellschaft) was a German railway company founded in 1844 in theKingdom of Bavaria. The company planned and operated thePalatine Ludwig Railway (Ludwigsbahn) betweenLudwigshafen andBexbach in thearea around the Rhein, a region of southwest Germany that was once part of theGerman Empire. The railway should have served in particular the transportation betweenSaar region coal industry [de] from the Bexbach Revier to the Rhine and from there to the emerging industrial centers in the south of Germany and Switzerland.
On 1 January 1870, the Palatine Ludwig Railway Company, thePalatine Maximilian Railway Company and thePalatine Northern Railway (with which the Neustadt-Dürkheim Railway Company had amalgamated) had formed a management and operational association under the name "United Palatine Railways" (Vereinigte Pfälzische Eisenbahnen) orPalatinate Railway (Pfalzbahn) for short, with its headquarters in Ludwigshafen. Nevertheless, Palatine Ludwig Railway was responsible for the subsequent opening of the following railway lines:
In addition the following narrow gauge routes belonging to the Palatine Ludwig Railway should be mentioned:
On 1 January 1909, the Ludwigsbahn was transferred into the ownership of theRoyal Bavarian State Railways along with the other companies belonging to the Palatinate Railway.
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