The k.k. Östliche Staatsbahn (ÖStB, English: Imperial and Royal Eastern National Railway) was a national railway company in the Cisleithania

Cisleithania

Cisleithania was a name of the Austrian part of Austria-Hungary, the Dual Monarchy created in 1867 and dissolved in 1918. The name was used by politicians and bureaucrats, but it had no official status...

 part of Habsburg Austria. It was founded in 1850 on the base of the Cracow and Upper Silesia Railway  for the purpose to build up a railway network in the crown land

Crown land

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 of Galicia and Ladomiria. In 1858 the company was resolved, and its network was divided among companies in private property. All its lines west of Cracow were left to the Northern Railway

Northern Railway (Austria)

The Emperor Ferdinand Northern Railway was the name of a former railway company during the time of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy. Its main line was supposed to connect Vienna with salt mines in Bochnia near Kraków...

, while all its lines east of Cracow were left to the new founded Galician Railway (Ger.: Galizische Carl-Ludwig-Bahn, CLB, Pol.: Kolej galicyjska im. Karola Ludwika).

Lines of the company:

• Cracow – Mysłowice (taken over from the Cracow and Upper Silesian Railway)
• Trzebinia
  Trzebinia
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   – Oświęcim
  Oswiecim
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  , opened 1856, link from the upper to the Northern Railway
• Cracow – Bierzanów – Podłeże – Dębica
  Debica
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  , 1856
• Bierzanów – Wieliczka
  Wieliczka
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  , 1857
• Dębica – Rzeszów
  Rzeszów
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  , completed in 1858 by the CLB