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unusual facts about Rhenish Railway Company



Börde Railway

The Rhenish Railway Company (Rheinische Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft, RhE) received a concession on 5 March 1856 for the construction and operation of a railway line between Duren and Schleiden.

Kaarster See station

Kaarster See station is located in the town of Kaarst in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia on the remaining part of the Neuss–Viersen railway, opened by the Rhenish Railway Company on 15 November 1877.

Münster–Rheine railway

In 1879, the Rhenish Railway Company (Rheinische Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft, RhE) opened its own North Sea route from Duisburg via Rheine to Quakenbrück and so made the station one of the major railway junctions in north-western Germany.

Rhein-Niers-Bahn

Duisburg-Ruhrort–Mönchengladbach railway, opened from Duisburg to Uerdingen by the Rhenish Railway Company on 23 December 1873, from Uerdingen to northern Viersen by the Aachen-Düsseldorf-Ruhrort Railway on 15 October 1849 and from northern Viersen to Mönchengladbach by the Prussian state railways in 1917; and


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