Chemins de fer de Paris à Lyon et à la Méditerranée

Chemins de fer de Paris à Lyon et à la Méditerranée (PLM) was a French railway company and was created between 1858 and 1862 from the amalgamation of the earlier Paris-Lyon and Lyon-Méditerranée companies. PLM operated chiefly in the south-east of France, with a main line connecting Paris to the Côte d'Azur by way of Dijon, Lyon, and Marseille. The company was also the operator of railways in Algeria. Absorbed in 1938 into the majority state-owned Société Nationale des Chemins de fer Français, the PLM's network became the south-eastern region of SNCF.