Czechoslovak State Railways (Československé státní dráhy in Czech or Československé štátne dráhy[a] in Slovak, often abbreviated to ČSD) was the state-owned railway company of Czechoslovakia.
It took over the rolling stock and infrastructure of the Imperial Royal Austrian State Railways.
In 1930 Czechoslovakia had 13,600 km (8,500 mi) of railways: the fifth-largest network in Europe.
When Nazi Germany dissolved Czechoslovakia in 1939, the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia formed the "Bohemian-Moravian Railway" company (in Czech Českomoravské dráhy-ČMD, in German Böhmisch-Mährische Bahn-BMB) under the control of Deutsche Reichsbahn (DR).
The fixed infrastructure was transferred to the successor countries according to location; the remainder was divided by 2:1 ratio.