Imperial Royal Austrian State Railways

kkStB Salzburg-Wörgl railway poster advertising, c. 1900

The Imperial-Royal State Railways (German: k.k. Staatsbahnen) abbr. kkStB) or Imperial-Royal Austrian State Railways (k.k. österreichische Staatsbahnen,[1]) was the state railway organisation in the Cisleithanian (Austrian) part of the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy.

  1. ^ The name incorporating "Austrian" appears, for example, in the 1907 official state handbook (Staatshandbuch) and on the title page of the Imperial-Royal Railway Ministry publication: Die neuen österr(eichischen) Alpenbahnen. Maass’ Söhne, Vienna, 1908.