Neustadt–Dürkheim Railway Company
The Neustadt- Dürkheimer Railway Company ( NDE) was the third of the Palatinate private railway companies on October 22, 1862 established for the construction of the line Neustadt a. / Haardt Durkheim.
History
In 1860, a local committee of the Palatinate small towns Deidesheim and Durkheim applied for the concession for a railroad route to the Neustadt a. / Haardt - Durkheim - Frankenthal. It was expected particularly for factories in the valley Dürkheimer improvements. Also, you referred to the fact that the wine from the region Oberhaardt was largely shipped over Mainz. Due to a customs agreement of the riparian loading at this place was loaded with high fees. This was one of the intermediate station Frankenthal - where no customs taxes incurred - round.
Through this route but you came into direct competition with Ludwig Railway and rightly feared trouble. So they offered at the Ludwig train, they may yet build a track on their account, as indeed authorizes its license. The Ludwigsbahn refused this request from, however. On January 25, 1862 finally came to an agreement, which was parked on a pure local railway between Neustadt and Durkheim. The concession was granted on August 28, 1862, founded the new company on 22 October 1862.
The business and management of the company was transferred from the beginning of the Palatine Ludwig Railway Company with the one also worked closely.
The Streckenbau
Due to scheduling problems - the location of the station guard home on - and those with the Acquisition of Land, the railway construction was delayed until 1963 The responsible Sekltionsbüro was established in Bad Durkheim. . His head was the district engineer J. King. In contrast to all other planned or built to date, stretching the Palatine One railway companies was this route was planned from the outset as a single-track branch line. In September 1863, the work on the construction of the track ran on. The hilly terrain caused by earth movements over half a million cubic meters and 62 engineering structures for the 13.6 km long stretch of Durkheim to Neustadt an der Haardt ( since 1935 Neustadt on the Wine Route ). It was finally opened on 6 May 1865 but did not produce the expected returns.
The fusion
When the three major Palatinate railway companies combined on 1 January 1870 the Palatine railways, the society of the Nine North trains took over in advance, the share capital of the NDE and this went on in society. The shareholders of N.D.E. received for their shares, those of the Palatine Northern Railways equal value. The Palatine Northern Railway built then in 1873 a continuation of the line from Durkheim to green city with connections to the Prussian- Hessian State Railways. The further details of the development after 1870 are in
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