Palatine Ludwig Railway Company
The Palatine Ludwigsbahn Company (Pfälzische Ludwigsbahn-Gesellschaft) was a German railway concern that was founded to operate the Palatine Ludwig Railway (Ludwigsbahn) in the Palatinate, a region of southwest Germany that was once part of the Kingdom of Bavaria within the German Empire.
On 1 January 1870, the Palatine Ludwigsbahn 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 Ludwigsbahn was responsible for the subsequent opening of the following railway lines:
- Ludwigshafen–Frankenthal–Bobenheim, 19 km (12 mi), on 15 November 1853
- Speyer–Germersheim, 13 km (8.1 mi), on 14 March 1864
- Speyer–Rhein station – towards Schwetzingen, 4 km (2.5 mi), on 10 December 1873
- Landau–Annweiler, 15 km (9.3 mi), on 12 September 1874
- Annweiler–Biebermühle–Zweibrücken, 57 km (35 mi), (Queich Valley Railway) and
- Biebermühle–Pirmasens, 7 km (4.3 mi), on 25 November 1875
- Einöd–Bierbach–Reinheim–Saargemünd, 33 km (21 mi), on 1 April 1879 (Blies valley line)
- Biebermühle–Waldfischbach, 5 km (3.1 mi), on 1 June 1904 (Biebermühl Railway)
In addition the following narrow gauge routes belonging to the Palatine Ludwigsbahn should be mentioned:
- Ludwigshafen–Dannstadt, 13 km (8.1 mi), and Ludwigshafen–Frankenthal, 11 km (6.8 mi), on 15 October 1890
- Frankenthal–Großkarlbach, 13 km, on 1 July 1891
- Speyer Lokalbahnhof–Geinsheim, 19 km (12 mi), on 26 August 1905 (Pfefferminzbähnel/Gäubähnel)
- Geinsheim–Neustadt branch line station, 10 km (6.2 mi), on 31 October 1908 (Pfefferminzbähnel/Gäubähnel)
On 1 January 1909, the Ludwigsbahn was transferred into the ownership of the Royal Bavarian State Railways along with the other companies belonging to the Palatinate Railway.
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