Bavarian Ludwig Railway

Route of Ludwig Railway
Bayerische Ludwigs Bahn 1835/69 share certificate.
Railway monument in Nuremberg in memory of the first German railway, Nürnberg-Fürth.
Model of the first Nuremberg station of 1835 in the Nuremberg Transport Museum
Model of the first Fürth station of 1835 in the Nuremberg Transport Museum
The Adler replica from 1935 on its first trip after the reconstruction in 2007.

The Bavarian Ludwig Railway (Bayerische Ludwigseisenbahn or Ludwigsbahn) was the first steam-hauled railway opened in Germany. The Königlich privilegierte Ludwigs-Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft ("Royal Privileged Ludwig Railway Company", later called the Ludwigs-Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft) received a concession to build a railway from Nuremberg to Fürth (6 km) in the state of Bavaria on 19 February 1834.