The Palatine Northern Railways Company ( Gesellschaft der Pfälzischen Nordbahnen ) – abbreviated to Palatine Northern Railway ( Pfälzer Nordbahn ) - was founded on 17 April 1866 as the last of the three major private railway companies in the Bavarian province of the Palatinate .
5-730: From the outset it left the management and running of its railways to the Palatine Ludwigsbahn . Because the Ludwigsbahn company and the Palatine Maximilian Railway had already built their railway networks in central and southern Palatinate, the Palatine Northern Railway was only left with the region north of the line Ludwigshafen – Kaiserslautern – Homburg for its area of operations. It began working on 22 September 1868 with
10-782: The Kingdom of Bavaria . The company planned and operated the Palatine Ludwig Railway ( Ludwigsbahn ) between Ludwigshafen and Bexbach in the area around the Rhein , a region of southwest Germany that was once part of the German Empire . The railway should have served in particular the transportation between Saar region coal industry [ de ] from the Bexbach Revier to the Rhine and from there to
15-555: The Palatine Ludwigsbahn to that point in time. The construction of the most important northern railway lines was then started: On 1 January 1909 the company was nationalised and absorbed into the Royal Bavarian State Railways . Palatine Ludwigsbahn Company The Palatine Ludwig Railway Company ( Pfälzische Ludwigsbahn-Gesellschaft ) was a German railway company founded in 1844 in
20-939: The emerging industrial centers in the south of Germany and Switzerland. On 1 January 1870, the Palatine Ludwig Railway Company, the Palatine Maximilian Railway Company and the Palatine 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 ) or Palatinate Railway ( Pfalzbahn ) for short, with its headquarters in Ludwigshafen. Nevertheless, Palatine Ludwig Railway
25-577: The opening of the 29 km long Landstuhl–Kusel railway : Landstuhl – Glan-Münchweiler – Altenglan – Kusel . On 1 January 1870 as it agreed to merge with the other two Palatine railway organisations into the managerial and operating company of the United Palatine Railways , it also took over the entire shareholding of the Neustadt–Dürkheim Railway Company , whose railway line, opened in 1865, had been run by
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