Yugoslav Railways

Yugoslav Railways
Company type	Government-owned corporation (1918–1941); Labour-managed firm (1945–1992)
Industry	Railway transport, logistics and shipping
Predecessor	Austrian Southern Railway; Hungarian State Railways; Imperial Royal Austrian State Railways; Serbian Railways; Chemins de fer Orientaux (CO);
Founded	11 November 1918
Defunct	27 April 1992
Fate	Breakup of Yugoslavia
Successor	Slovenian Railways (SŽ) in 1991; Croatian Railways (HŽ) in 1991; Macedonian Railways (MŽ) in 1991; Bosnia and Herzegovina Railways Republika Srpska Railways (ŽRS) in 1992; Railways of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina (ŽFBH) in 2008; ; Serbian Railways (ŽS) in 2005; Montenegro Railways (ŽCG) in 2005; Kosovo Railways in 2011;
Headquarters	Belgrade, SR Serbia, SFR Yugoslavia
Area served	FR Yugoslavia
Products	Rail transport, rail infrastructure, cargo transport, services

Yugoslav Railways (Croatian: Jugoslavenske željeznice; Serbian: Jugoslovenske železnice, Југословенске железнице; Macedonian: Југословенски железници, romanized: Jugoslovenski železnici; Slovene: Jugoslovanske železnice), with standard acronym JŽ (ЈЖ in Cyrillic), was the state railway company of Yugoslavia, operational from the 1920s to the 1990s, with its final incarnation transferring to Serbia. The successor of JŽ is the joint stock company of the Serbian Railways in 2006.

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