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Lusatian Railway Company

The Lusatian Railway Company (; LEG) was a German railway company which operated railway lines in Lusatia, as well as Lower Silesia, both modern day Poland and Germany. The company was based in Sommerfeld (now Lubsko), and was a subsidiary of Lokalbahn AG, which was based in Munich.

Until its nationalisation in 1939, the company operated four railway lines: Ruszów–Gozdnica, Lubsko–Muskau, Jankowa Żagańska–Przewoź, and Muskau–Weißwasser.

History

The company was founded on 21 March, 1896. Its first railway line, the Ruszów–Gozdnica railway opened on 1 December, 1896. The line branched off the Miłkowice–Jasień railway.

The second railway line opened was the Lubsko–Muskau railway, via Tuplice. The northern section opened first, on 1 October 1897, with the southern section opening on 15 June 1898, which made the line a total of long. In the same year, the company took over the long Muskau–Weißwasser railway, which was previously owned by the Berlin-Görlitz Railway Company, opened on 15 October 1872.

On 1 April 1901 the company took over the Jankowa Żagańska–Przewoź railway, which was previously opened on 1 October 1895. The line was extended to Przysieka in Dąbrowa Łużycka on 1 October 1913, but this line closed in 1936. By 1913, the company had operated of railway lines. The Ruszów–Gozdnica railway was planned to be extended to Przewoź would have created a continuous Lusatian railway network, was never constructed due to World War I.

On 1 January 1939, the Lusatian Railway Company was nationalised, being taken over by the Deutsche Reichsbahn. Lokalbahn AG was nationalised the year prior on 1 August. After World War II, the area east of the Oder–Neisse line was placed under Polish administration. Almost all railway lines previously owned by the company now lie in modern-day Poland, being fully or partially abandoned, or owned and operated by Polish State Railways.

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