Deutsche Reichsbahn
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The Deutsche Reichsbahn, also known as the German National Railway, the German State Railway, German Reich Railway, and the German Imperial Railway, was the German national railway system created afte
Twenty-billion mark notgeld banknote issued by the Deustche Reichsbahn in Berlin, October 1923
A DRG conductor in 1928 complete with rank insignia
WWII Reichsbahn military marked railwayman's carbide burner lantern (c. 1942)
The wagon monument, Yad Vashem, Jerusalem
Deutsche Bundesbahn
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Deutsche Bundesbahn, or DB, was formed as the state railway of the newly established West Germany on 7 September 1949 as a successor of the Deutsche Reichsbahn-Gesellschaft. The DB remained the state
Deutsche Reichsbahn
…over the control of the DR on its territory and continued to use the traditional name Deutsche Reichsbahn, while the railway in West Germany became the Deutsche Bundesbahn ("German Federal Railway", DB). The Austrian Österreichische Bundesbahnen ("Austrian Federal Railways", ÖBB) was founded in 1945, and was given its…
Telegram announcing the formation of the Deutsche Bundesbahn
V200 number 010 pulling passenger train in West Germany, c. 1961
West German trains ran through East Germany. This 1977 view shows how barriers were made near the tracks to keep people away.