The Deutsche Bundesbahn, German for German Federal Railway and usually shortened to DB, was the state railway of West Germany. It was formed on 7 September 1949 as the successor of the Deutsche Reichsbahn-Gesellschaft, after the Allied occupation zones had run their railways separately and then reunited them under the Federal Railways Law of 1951. A state-owned company under the Federal Transport Ministry, headquartered in Frankfurt, it held a near monopoly on rail transport in West Germany and employed more than 320,000 people in 1985. Its early years brought reconstruction, the end of steam in 1977, wider electrification, Trans Europ Express and InterCity trains and then the ICE high-speed system. After reunification it merged with the East German Deutsche Reichsbahn to form the stock corporation Deutsche Bahn on 1 January 1994.
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as the state railway of the newly established West Germany (FRG)
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formed as the state railway of the newly established West Germany (FRG) on 7 September 1949
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when it was merged with the former East German Deutsche Reichsbahn (DR) to form Deutsche Bahn
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as the state railway of the newly established West Germany (FRG)
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exercised a monopoly concerning rail transport throughout West Germany
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