Imperial Royal Austrian State Railways
The Imperial Royal State Railways (German: k.k. Staatsbahnen, abbr. kkStB, from 1915: k.k. österreichische Staatsbahnen) was the state railway organisation in the Cisleithanian (Austrian) part of Austria-Hungary.
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