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The pre-war German railway company was known as the Deutsche Reichsbahn Gesellschaft - this ran from the grouping of the old regional Länderbahnen in 1924 until 1937, when they came under state control and were renamed simply Deutsche Reichsbahn. In 1949 the Deutsche Bundesbahn or DB (federal railways) was set up in the West, while in the East the rail system was still known as Deutsche Reichsbahn (DR). These two were state owned companies. After the reunification in 1990 it took another four years for the two systems to be unified, DB now standing for Deutsche Bahn AG, a private company again. <br /> <br />There's a good page on this that also explains the Epoch system on Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_rail_transport_in_Germany
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