The Palatine Maximilian Railway Company (''Pfälzische Maximiliansbahn-Gesellschaft'') was a German railway enterprise that acted as the railway operator when the

Palatine Maximilian Railway A palatine or palatinus (in Latin; plural ''palatini''; cf. derivative spellings below) is a high-level official attached to imperial or royal courts in Europe since Roman times.

was built. It managed and ran operations jointly from the outset with the Palatine Ludwig Railway Company. On 1 January 1870 both companies were placed under the combined management of the ''United Palatine Railways'' (''Vereinigten Pfälzischen Eisenbahnen''). Legally the Palatine Maximilian Railway Company remained in existence. Over the next few years it opened the following new routes: * Winden – (Bad)

Bergzabern Bad Bergzabern () is a municipality in the Südliche Weinstraße district, on the German Wine Route in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It is situated near the border with France, on the south-eastern edge of the Palatinate forest, approximately ...

, Winden–Bad Bergzabern railway (''Kurbadlinie''), 10 km, on 10 April 1870 *

Landau Landau ( pfl, Landach), officially Landau in der Pfalz, is an autonomous (''kreisfrei'') town surrounded by the Südliche Weinstraße ("Southern Wine Route") district of southern Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It is a university town (since 1990 ...

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Germersheim Germersheim () is a town in the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate, of around 20,000 inhabitants. It is also the seat of the Germersheim (district), Germersheim district. The neighboring towns and cities are Speyer, Landau, Philippsburg, Karlsru ...

, Lower Queich Valley Railway (''Untere Queichtalbahn''), 21 km, on 16 May 1872 * Germersheim – Wörth –

Berg Berg may refer to: People *Berg (surname), a surname (including a list of people with the name) *Berg Ng (born 1960), Hong Kong actor * Berg (footballer) (born 1989), Brazilian footballer Former states *Berg (state), county and duchy of the Holy ...

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Lauterbourg Lauterbourg ( or ; ) (historically in English: Lauterburgh) is a Communes of France, commune and Bas-Rhin Departments of France, department in the Grand Est administrative region in north-eastern France. Situated on the Germany, German border a ...

(now parts of the

Schifferstadt–Wörth railway The Schifferstadt–Wörth railway or Speyer line is a uniformly double track and electrified main line in the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate. Between Schifferstadt and Germersheim it is part of the network of the Rhine-Neckar S-Bahn. Betwe ...

and the Wörth–Strasbourg railway), 40 km, on 25 July 1876 *

Rohrbach Rohrbach or Röhrbach may refer to: Places Municipalities in Switzerland *Rohrbach, Switzerland, in the canton of Bern Municipalities in Germany *Rohrbach, Bavaria, in the district of Pfaffenhofen, Bavaria *Rohrbach, Birkenfeld, in the district o ...

Steinweiler Steinweiler is a municipality in the district of Germersheim, in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany Germany,, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a country in Central Europe. It is the second most populous country in Europe a ...

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Klingenmünster Klingenmünster is a municipality in Südliche Weinstraße district, in Rhineland-Palatinate, western Germany. Near Klingenmünster there is a castle called Landeck Castle. It is the birthplace of Michael Hahn George Michael Decker Hahn (Nove ...

, Klingbach Valley Railway (''Klingbachtalbahn''), 10 km, on 1 December 1892 * Landau Hauptbahnhof–Herxheim, 11 km, on 1 December 1898 On 1 January 1909 the organisation was transferred, together with the other two Palatine railway companies, into the

Royal Bavarian State Railways The Royal Bavarian State Railways (''Königliche Bayerische Staats-Eisenbahnen'' or ''K.Bay.Sts.B.'') was the state railway company for the Kingdom of Bavaria. It was founded in 1844. The organisation grew into the second largest of the German ...

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