Railways of the Slovak Republic

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Railways of the Slovak Republic (in Slovak Železnice Slovenskej republiky, ŽSR) is a state owned railway operator in Slovakia.

The company was established in 1993 as a sucessor of Czechoslovak State Railways in Slovakia. Until 1996 it had formal and since then de-facto monopoly on railroad transportation in the country.

Since 2001 a law divided the company: ŽSR was left with infrastructure maintenance and personal and cargo transport was moved into company "Železničná spoločnosť, a. s." (ZSSK). In 2005 this new company was splitted into "Železničná spoločnosť Slovensko, a. s." (ZSSK) ^[1] providing personal transport services and "Železničná spoločnosť Cargo Slovakia, a. s." (ZSSK Cargo) ^[2] providing cargo services. All the companies are state owned.