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The '''Kaiserliche Generaldirektion der Eisenbahnen in Elsaß-Lothringen''' or '''EL''' (English: General Directorate of the Imperial Railways in Alsace-Lorraine) were the first railways owned by the [[German Empire]].

They emerged in 1871, after [[France]] had ceded the region of [[Alsace-Lorraine]] to the German Empire under the terms of the Peace [[Treaty of Frankfurt (1871)|Treaty of Frankfurt]] following the [[Franco-Prussian War]]. The railways of the private ''[[Chemins de fer de l'Est|Compagnie des chemins de fer de l'Est]] (CF de l'Est''; English: [French] Eastern Railway Company), with a total of {{convert|740|km}} trackage, were formally purchased from the French and then sold again to the German Empire. The purchase price of 260&nbsp;million&nbsp;[[German gold mark|Goldmarks]] was counted as [[War reparations|compensation]] for the war.

The ''General Directorate of the Imperial Railways in Alsace-Lorraine'' (''Kaiserliche Generaldirektion der Eisenbahnen in Elsaß-Lothringen'') had its head office in [[Straßburg]] (now Strasbourg) and was subordinated directly to the [[Reich Chancellor]]. In 1878, however, it was re-subordinated to the newly created ''Imperial Ministry for the Management of Railways in Alsace-Lorraine'' in [[Berlin]]. The General Division managed six regional operating divisions, which had their headquarters in [[Mülhausen]] (now Mulhouse), [[Colmar|Kolmar]] (Colmar), Straßburg&nbsp;I and II, [[Saargemünd]] (now Sarreguemines) and [[Metz]]. It was also responsible for a seventh region, with a headquarters in [[Luxembourg (city)|Luxemburg]], which ran the operations of the ''Wilhelm Luxemburg Railway''.

In the early days, railway vehicles were almost exclusively and forcibly taken from the German railways, because French troops had taken with them almost all rolling stock in the region during the retreat. The French side later built copies of German railway stock, mainly based on Prussian prototypes.

Railway operations were carried out, in principle, in accordance with the regulations of the Prussian state railways. Because the ''CF de l'Est'' were also the leaseholders of the ''Wilhelm Luxemburg Railway'' with a route length of {{convert|169|km|abbr=on}}, the Imperial Railways took over the running of the network. An {{convert|18|km|abbr=on}} long railway line from Colmar to [[Munster, Haut-Rhin|Münster]] (French ''Munster''), which belonged to the town of Münster, was also purchased.

In the succeeding years the network was expanded significantly. Shortly before the start of the [[First World War]] (1912) the Imperial Railway network in Alsace-Lorraine had a total length of {{convert|2100|km|abbr=on}}, of which {{convert|78|km|abbr=on}} was [[narrow gauge railway|narrow gauge]] ({{RailGauge|1000mm|lk=on|disp=or}}?). After the end of the war, these railways returned to France. Subsequently, the network of this region was managed independently again as the ''[[Administration des chemins de fer d'Alsace et de Lorraine]]'' until it merged into the ''[[SNCF|Société nationale des chemins de fer français]]'' (SNCF) in 1938.

In [[Alsace]] and [[Moselle]], many multi-track routes are still driven on the right, whereas in the rest of France they drive on the left.

== See also ==
* [[Alsace-Lorraine]]
* [[List of Alsace-Lorraine locomotives]]

== External links ==
* {{commons category-inline|Kaiserliche Generaldirektion der Eisenbahnen in Elsaß-Lothringen}}
* {{Wikisourcelang-inline|de|Deutsch-Französischer Krieg#Expansion (Elsaß-Lothringen)|Themenseite Deutsch-Französischer Krieg}} 
* {{Wikisourcelang-inline|de|Eisenbahn#Eisenbahnen in Elsaß-Lothringen|Themenseite Eisenbahn}}

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