Norwegian State Railways

Norges Statsbaner AS

Type	State-owned
Industry	Transport
Founded	1 December 1996
Headquarters	Oslo, Norway
Area served	Norway
Key people	Geir Isaksen, CEO
Revenue	NOK 11 billion (2009)
Operating income	NOK 548 million (2009)
Net income	NOK 497 million (2009)
Number of employees	10,646 (2006)
Parent	Ministry of Transport and Communications
Subsidiaries	Nettbuss NSB Gjøvikbanen Tågkompaniet Mantena CargoNet
Website	nsb.no

Norges Statsbaner AS, trading as NSB AS and known in English as the Norwegian State Railways, is a government-owned railway company which operates most passenger train services in Norway. Owned by the Norwegian Ministry of Transport and Communications, it is also engaged in real estate through Rom Eiendom, bus transport through Nettbuss, cargo trains through CargoNet and Swedish train transport through Tågkompaniet. NSB transported 52 million train passengers and 104 million bus passengers in 2009. The current company was established on 1 December 1996, when the former Norwegian State Railways (1883–1996) was split into the new NSB, the infrastructure company the Norwegian National Rail Administration and the Norwegian Railway Inspectorate. In 2002 the freight operations were split to the subsidiary CargoNet, and the maintenance department became Mantena.

On 1 December 1996 the largest structural change in Norwegian railway history in the 20th century occurred. The old Norwegian State Railways was split into three separate governmental agencies. The ownership, maintenance and construction of the track was transformed to the newly created government agency Norwegian National Rail Administration while a new Norwegian Railway Inspectorate was created to supervise all railway operations in the country. NSB was renamed NSB BA and created as a limited company, wholly owned by the Ministry of Transport and Communications. Also, NSB was made a concern, with NSB Biltrafikk (now Nettbuss) and NSB Eiendom (now ROM Eiendom) made subsidiaries of NSB.