Palatine Ludwig Railway Company
The Palatine Ludwig Railway 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 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 was responsible for the subsequent opening of the following railway lines: In addition the following narrow gauge routes belonging to the Palatine Ludwig Railway should be mentioned: 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.