Back Köln-Mindener Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft German Compagnie des chemins de fer de Cologne-Minden French Cöln-Mindener Eisenbahngesellschaft Dutch Köln-Mindener Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft NB Köln-Mindener Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft Swedish
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| Lines of the Cologne-Minden Railway Company | ||
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| dark red | Trunk line | 1845–47 |
| pink | Holland line | 1854–1856 |
| green | Cologne–Gießen line | 1859–62 |
| blue | Hamburg–Venlo line | 1870–74 |
| bright red | Emscher Valley line | 1866–78 |
| yellow | Bocholt line | 1878 |
| orange | Herford–Detmold line | 1879/80 |
The Cologne-Minden Railway Company (German, old spelling: Cöln-Mindener Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft, CME) was along with the Bergisch-Märkische Railway Company and the Rhenish Railway Company one of the railway companies that in the mid-19th century built the first railways in the Ruhr and large parts of today's North Rhine-Westphalia.