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The Palatinate Railway or ''Pfalzbahn'' was an early German railway company in the period of the German Empire prior to the First World War. It was formed on 1 January 1870, as the United Palatinate Railway based in Ludwigshafen, by the amalgamation of the following railway companies: *The Palatine Ludwig Railway Company (''Pfälzische Ludwigsbahn'') with of line *The Palatine Maximilian Railway Company (''Pfälzische Maximiliansbahn'') with of line *The Palatine Northern Railway Company (''Gesellschaft der Pfälzischen Nordbahnen'') with of route: this included the line belonging to the Neustadt - Dürkheim Railway Company (''Neustadt-Dürkheimer Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft'') whose shares had been taken over by the North Palatinate Railway. By Spring 1889, the railway network had grown to ; of which was in Alsace-Lorraine and in Prussian Rhineland. It handled through traffic from north and south Germany into the southern Rhineland, to Lorraine and France, as well as from north Germany into Alsace, Switzerland and to Italy. The three united private railways remained officially independent until they were nationalised on 1 January 1909, and merged into the Royal Bavarian State Railways. == Sources == *Based on a translation of the de.wikipedia article at Pfalzbahn 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Palatinate Railway」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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