Prussian State Railways (Paperback)

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The term Prussian state railways (German: Preussische Staatseisenbahnen) encompasses those railway organisations that were owned or managed by the State of Prussia. The words "state railways" are not capitalized because Prussia did not have an independent railway administration; rather the individual railway organisations were under the control of the Ministry for Trade and Commerce or its later offshoot, the Ministry for Public Works. The official name of the Prussian rail network was Koniglich Preussische Staatseisenbahnen (K.P.St.E., "Royal Prussian State Railways") until 1896, Koniglich Preussische und Grossherzoglich Hessische Staatseisenbahn (K.P.u.G.H.St.E., "Royal Prussian and Grand-Ducal Hessian State Railways") until the end of the First World War, and Preussische Staatsbahn (P.St.B., "Prussian State Railway") until its nationalization in