The Societe royale grand-ducale des chemins de fer Guillaume-Luxembourg, known in English as the Royal Grand Ducal William-Luxembourg Railway Company, was a Luxembourgish company with French capital, created in 1857 to operate the 1855 concessions for the railway lines of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, building the lines that made up the Guillaume-Luxembourg network. It never operated the lines itself, transferring that role to the French Compagnie des chemins de fer de l'Est, then to the Imperial Railways in Alsace-Lorraine in 1872, to the Administration des chemins de fer d'Alsace et de Lorraine in 1919 and then to the SNCF in 1938. During the German occupation in the Second World War the Deutsche Reichsbahn operated the network until the liberation, and the company itself ceased to exist in 1946 with the creation of the SNCF.
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