České dráhy

České dráhy

Company type	Government-owned (100%)
Industry	Railway company
Predecessors	České dráhy s.o. (1993–2002) ČSD (1918–1992)
Founded	Prague (2003)
Headquarters	Prague, Czech Republic
Key people	Michal Krapinec
Revenue	40.656 billion CZK (2019)
Operating income	7,993,000,000 Czech koruna (2021)
Net income	1.315 billion CZK (2019)
Total assets	95.991 billion CZK (2019)
Total equity	41.939 billion CZK (2019)
Number of employees	23.529 (2019)
Subsidiaries	ČD Cargo
Website	www.cd.cz www.ceskedrahy.cz

České dráhy (English: Czech Railways), often shortened to ČD, is the main railway operator in the Czech Republic providing regional and long-distance services.

The company was established in January 1993, after the dissolution of Czechoslovakia. It is a successor of the Czechoslovak State Railways. It is a member of the International Railway Union (UIC Country Code for the Czech Republic is 54), the Community of European Railway and Infrastructure Companies, and the Organization for Cooperation of Railways. With twenty-four thousand employees ČD Group is the fifth largest Czech company by the number of employees.

Its EuroCity trains have dining cars with regional food prepared fresh to order and craft beer.

History

ČD Class 680 Pendolino long-distance train

ČD railjet long-distance train

In 1827–1836, the České Budějovice–Linz railway was built. It was the second horse-drawn railway in continental Europe. The first steam-hauled railway in the area was established in 1839, from Vienna to Břeclav. The first standard gauge electrified railway track in the area was built in 1903.