Bergisch-Markisch Railway Company [SEP] inception
built the first railways in the Ruhr and large parts of today's North Rhine-Westphalia. Its name refers to Bergisches Land and the County of Mark.
History.
History Foundation.
The Bergisch-Markisch Railway Company was founded on 18 October 1843 in Elberfeld (Today Wuppertal). Since the Cologne-Minden Railway Company had decided to build its route via Duisburg rather than through the valley of the Wupper river, the Bergisch-Markisch Railway Company (, BME) determined to build its own line through the Wupper
Bergisch-Markisch Railway Company
The Bergisch-Markisch Railway Company (, BME), also referred to as the Berg-Mark Railway Company or, more rarely, as the Bergisch-Markische Railway Company, was a German railway company that together with the Cologne-Minden Railway ("Cöln-Mindener Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft", "CME") and the Rhenish Railway Company ("Rheinische Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft", "RhE") was one of the three (nominally) private railway companies that in the mid-19th century