Saarbrücken Railway

The Royal Direction of Saarbrücken railway was established in accordance with " the highest remission " of 22 May 1852 the aim of the management and operation of the soon upcoming opening state railway line from the (then) Bavarian border in Bexbach about Neunkirchen - St. Johann -Saarbrücken to French boundary to take in Forbach. They took the place of the " Royal Commission for the construction of the Saarbrücken Railway ", which had already been commissioned late in 1847 as the first Prussian State Railway Authority with the planning and construction of this section.

On 1 July 1859, the Managing Authority was renamed "Royal Railroad Direction to Saarbrücken ". At the same time she took over the management of private Rhein-Nahe Railway Company. In the following years the rail network of the "Saarbrücken Railway " still grew to 365 km, until it was incorporated on July 1, 1880, the Railway Direction in Frankfurt am Main. But only for a short time; because on April 1, 1881 was the Saarbrücken region to the " Royal Railroad Direction ( left bank ) in Cologne ."

Development of the rail network

The run in 1849 by the Palatine Ludwig Railway Company from the direction of Homburg to Prussian border railway line was extended to Neunkirchen Already on October 20, 1850 [ D 1] Two years later, could the trains -. Starting November 16, 1852, freight trains from December 1 1852 - on Sulzbach, Dudweiler and St. Johann -Saarbrücken reach the French border at Forbach (so-called Forbach train) [ D 2].

The Saartal down came the Saarstrecke from Saarbrücken to Trier, the up Merzig [D 3] and on 26 May 1860 to Trier West [ D 4] began operations on December 16, 1858 on the left bank of the Moselle. It saw on August 29, 1861 in Konz, a branch to the Luxembourg border against water from cheap. [D 5] Upriver reached the train on June 1, 1870 in the Sarreguemines Lorraine, which was then occupied by German troops. [ D 6]

In the years 1878/79 was just before the inclusion in the railway Direction Frankfurt again well-known sections are opened:

• On May 15, 1878, the upper Moselle route Ehrang - Trier - Perl, [D 7]
• On 15 May 1879, the Mosel route from Koblenz Cochem to Trier [ D 8] and
• On October 15, 1879 Fischbach Valley Railway from Saarbrücken Quierschied to Neunkirchen [D 9] and a connector at Scheidt to the previous endpoint St. Ingbert of Ludwigshafen Coming. [D 10]