Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg Friedrich-Franz Railway
On the second nationalisation in 1889/1890 the management of the state railway was transferred to the GGED (see above). The railway was known from then on as the Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg Friedrich-Franz Railway (Großherzoglich Mecklenburgische Friedrich-Franz-Eisenbahn, M.F.F.E.)
In 1889/1890 all existing nine private railways were purchased by the state, the acquisition of the larger, more profitable companies taking a little longer.
The 'Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg Friedrich-Franz Railway built a number of new routes in order to provide better rail transport services for the country:
- Tessin|Rostock–(Bad)Sülze–Tribsees (with a connexion to the Franzburg Southern Railway and the Tribsees–Grimmen–Greifswald route (1895)
- Schwerin–Rehna (1897)
- Grevesmühlen–Klütz (1905)
- Schönberg–Dassow (1905)
- Malchin–Dargun (1907)
- Heiligendamm–Arendsee (today the Baltic Sea spa Kühlungsborn-West)(1910).
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