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At its nationalisation the company had 768 locomotives and 21,607 wagons. Its rail network was 1,336 km long, including 720 km of double track railway. The purchase price was financed by government bonds worth 633,847,500
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The company’s development was characterised by the acquisitions of many smaller railway companies to round out its network. However, its energetic board of directors and its chairman
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for eight million thalers. After 1870 the network was extended on the west bank of the Rhine with the 66 km long line from
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769:Schwerte
760:1870–73
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291:Belgium
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