The Lusatian Railway Company, in German the Lausitzer Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft or LEG, was a German railway company that operated lines in Lusatia and Lower Silesia, regions now divided between Poland and Germany. It was based in Sommerfeld, now Lubsko, and was a subsidiary of Lokalbahn AG of Munich. Founded on 21 March 1896, it opened its first line, Ruszów to Gozdnica, that December, then the Lubsko to Muskau line in 1897 and 1898, and took over the Muskau to Weißwasser line in 1898 and the Jankowa Żagańska to Przewoź line in 1901. By 1913 it ran 87 km of railway. It was nationalised on 1 January 1939 and taken over by the Deutsche Reichsbahn, and almost all its former lines now lie in Poland.
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The company was founded on 21 March, 1896.
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the Lusatian Railway Company was nationalised, being taken over by the Deutsche Reichsbahn
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