Cologne-Minden Railway Company

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Lines of the Cologne-Minden Railway Company
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.