Palatine Ludwig Railway
The Mannheim–Saarbrücken railway is a main line railway from Ludwigshafen am Rhein to Saarbrücken. It was opened by the Palatine Ludwig Railway Company in 1847 and 1848 and is one of the oldest railways in Germany. The section to Ludwigshafen to Homburg is now part of the network of the Rhine-Neckar S-Bahn.
An extension was opened in 1867 across the Rhine to Mannheim, which was not historically part of the Ludwig Railway, but since the building of a new Ludwigshafen Central Station in 1969 has effectively formed part of it.
Sections of the line have been redeveloped for a maximum speed of 200 km/h for the TGV services between Paris, Kaiserslautern, Mannheim and Frankfurt.
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