ŽSR (Slovakian Republic Railways)

Company History: Railways of the Slovak Republic (Železnice Slovenskej Republiky, ŽSR) is the state-owned railway infrastructure company in Slovakia.
The company was established in 1993 as the successor of the Czechoslovak State Railways (in Czech Československé Státní Dráhy, ČSD) in Slovakia.
In 2002 a law divided the company: ŽSR was left with infrastructure maintenance, and transport was moved into company "Železničná spoločnosť, a. s." (ZSSK). In 2005 this new company was further split into "Železničná spoločnosť Slovensko, a. s." (ZSSK) providing passenger services and "Železničná spoločnosť Cargo Slovakia, a. s." (ZSSK Cargo / ZSCS) providing freight services.

Brief History: Slovakia is a central European country bordered by the Czech Republic and Poland to the North, Ukraine to the West, Austria to the East and Hungary to the South.
Slovakia in its current form was created in 1993 after the split of the former Czechoslovakia in two independent countries, the other one being the Czech Republic. Czechoslovakia was itself created in 1918 after it gained independence from the Austro-Hungarian empire.