High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles The Bavarian Ludwig Railway (Bayerische Ludwigseisenbahn or Ludwigsbahn) was the first steam-hauled railway opened in Germany. The K niglich privilegirte Ludwigs-Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft ("Royal Privileged Ludwig Railway Company," later called the Ludwigs-Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft) received a concession to build a railway from Nuremberg to F rth in the state of Bavaria on 19 February 1834.