Railways Taken Over By The Royal Bavarian State Railways
- On 1 June 1846 the Royal Bavarian State Railways took over the Munich-Augsburg Railway Company with its 62 km of railway line. The purchase price was 4.4 million gulden.
- On 15 May 1875 the Bavarian Eastern Railway (Bayerische Ostbahn) were taken over with their main lines Munich-Regensburg-Bayreuth/Eger and Nuremberg-Passau as well as all their branch lines; a total of some 900 km of line.
- On 1 January 1909 the 3 private railways which were grouped into the Palatinate Railway were taken over by the Royal Bavarian State Railways. Their network at this point comprised 870 kilometres of line, of which 60 km was narrow gauge. The state had to find around 300 million marks for this purchase. The three private lines were the:
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- Palatine Ludwig Railway (Pfälzische Ludwigsbahn)
- Palatine Maximilian Railway (Pfälzische Maximiliansbahn)
- The Palatine Northern Railway Company (Gesellschaft der Pfälzischen Nordbahnen) with the Neustadt–Dürkheim Railway Company (Neustadt-Dürkheimer Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft)
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