Cologne-Minden Railway Company

Lines of the Cologne-Minden Railway Company
dark red Trunk line 1845–47
pink Holland line 1854–1856
green Cologne–Gießen line 1859–62
blue Hamburg–Venlo line 1870–74
bright red Emscher Valley line 1866–78
yellow Bocholt line 1878
orange Herford–Detmold line 1879/80

The Cologne-Minden Railway Company (German, old spelling: Cöln-Mindener Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft, CME) was along with the Bergisch-Märkische Railway Company and the Rhenish Railway Company one of the railway companies that in the mid-19th century built the first railways in the Ruhr and large parts of today's North Rhine-Westphalia.

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