History
The company was founded on 21 March, 1896. Its first railway line, the Ruszów–Gozdnica railway opened on 1 December, 1896. The 8.42 km (5.23 mi) line branched off the Miłkowice–Jasień railway. [3]
The second railway line opened was the Lubsko–Muskau railway, via Tuplice. The northern section opened first, on 1 October 1897, with the southern section opening on 15 June 1898, which made the line a total of 42.7 km (26.5 mi) long. [4] In the same year, the company took over the 7.7 km (4.8 mi) long Muskau–Weißwasser railway, which was previously owned by the Berlin-Görlitz Railway Company, opened on 15 October 1872.
On 1 April 1901 the company took over the Jankowa Żagańska–Przewoź railway, which was previously opened on 1 October 1895. [5] The line was extended to Przysieka in Dąbrowa Łużycka on 1 October 1913, but this line closed in 1936. [6] By 1913, the company had operated 87 km (54 mi) of railway lines. The Ruszów–Gozdnica railway was planned to be extended to Przewoź would have created a continuous Lusatian railway network, was never constructed due to World War I.
On 1 January 1939, the Lusatian Railway Company was nationalised, being taken over by the Deutsche Reichsbahn. Lokalbahn AG was nationalised the year prior on 1 August. [7] After World War II, the area east of the Oder–Neisse line was placed under Polish administration. Almost all railway lines previously owned by the company now lie in modern-day Poland, being fully or partially abandoned, or owned and operated by Polish State Railways.
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