EST
Train Company
The Compagnie des Chemins de fer de l'Est (EST; German "Society of Ostbahnen") was a privately organized 1853-1938 French railway company.
The company was founded in 1845 as a Compagnie du chemin de fer de Paris à Strasbourg and received the concession for the Paris-Strasbourg line with branches from Épernay to Reims and Frouard to Metz and on to the then Prussian border with connection to the Forbacher Bahn, The route was opened in sections 1849-1854. Their train station in Paris was the Gare de l'Est, the first Embarcardère de Strasbourgsaid. Through acquisitions and other concessions, the company grew rapidly. In 1853, the company received the concession for the Paris-Mulhouse railway. In the same year she merged with the Compagnie du chemin de fer de Montereau à Troyes and renamed itself Compagnie des chemins de fer de l'Est.
Subject ID: 21489
MoreThe Compagnie des Chemins de fer de l'Est (EST; German "Society of Ostbahnen") was a privately organized 1853-1938 French railway company.
The company was founded in 1845 as a Compagnie du chemin de fer de Paris à Strasbourg and received the concession for the Paris-Strasbourg line with branches from Épernay to Reims and Frouard to Metz and on to the then Prussian border with connection to the Forbacher Bahn, The route was opened in sections 1849-1854. Their train station in Paris was the Gare de l'Est, the first Embarcardère de Strasbourgsaid. Through acquisitions and other concessions, the company grew rapidly. In 1853, the company received the concession for the Paris-Mulhouse railway. In the same year she merged with the Compagnie du chemin de fer de Montereau à Troyes and renamed itself Compagnie des chemins de fer de l'Est.
As a result of the Franco-German War and the subsequent peace treaty of Frankfurt , France had to cede Alsace and Lorraine to the German Reich. This expropriated the routes of the EST now on German territory 525 miles and in Luxembourg 145 miles. The Reich founded the Reichseisenbahnen in Alsace-Lorraine. The shareholders were compensated with 325 million francs, the sum counted on the reparations to be paid by France .
By further railway buildings and acquisitions, the network of the French Ostbahnstrasse enlarged until the end of 1912 to a length of 3,140 miles, a component which does not significantly changed in the ensuing period. The term of all licenses of the EST has been fixed uniformly 1883 to 26 November 1954.
As a result of the First World War, Alsace-Lorraine in 1919 fell back to France. The routes were now operated independently by France as a state railway under the name Réseau ferroviaire d'Alsace Lorraine (AL).
On January 1, 1938, the major rail companies of France were merged into the newly established SNCF state railway. The EST and the AL formed the region 1 of the SNCF.
Subject ID: 21489
Subject ID: 21489
