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U članku se prikazuje ustroj Željeznica narodnooslobodilačke vojske (ŽNOV) kroz vojnu (Vrhovni štab, Glavni štab Hrvatske) i, uvjetno rečeno, civilnu (Povjereništvo za saobraćaj NKOJ-a i Povjereništvo prometa ZAVNOH-a) strukturu. Za poslove željeznica unutar Vrhovnoga štaba bio je mjerodavan Tehnički odsjek, dok je unutar Glavnoga štaba Hrvatske za poslove željeznica bilo zaduženo Saobraćajno odjeljenje. Od 3. studenoga 1944. cjelokupni promet i prometne službe spadale su pod neposrednu upravu Povjereništva saobraćaja NKOJ-a. Vrhovnu upravu nad narodnim željeznicama u Hrvatskoj obavljalo je Povjereništvo prometa ZAVNOH-a., The article presents organization of the Railways of People's Liberation Army (ŽNOV/Željeznice narodnooslobodilačke vojske) analysing military (Supreme Headquarters, General staff for Croatia), and civil (Traffic Commission of NKOJ/National Committee of Yugoslav Liberation/; Traffic Commission of ZAVNOH/Federal Antifascist Council of People's Liberation of Croatia/) bodies responsible for it. Care for the railway issues inside the Supreme Headquarters was a task of the Technical Department, while a Traffic Department was responsible for them inside the General staff for Croatia. Scope of the Traffic Commission of NKOJ regarding railways included construction, maintaining and control of railway traffic, and organization and management of technical training i.e. of professional schools. According to that, Traffic Commission of NKOJ had responsilibities for the traffic in entirety. The first traffic commissioner was a general-lieutenant Sreten Žujović-Crni, being, at the same time, a member of the Supreme Headquarters of the People's Liberation Army and Partisan Units of Yugoslavia. Supreme governement of the people's railway network in Croatia was a responsability of the Traffic Commission of ZAVNOH. A head of that Commission was a traffic commissioner according to whose orders and under whose ruling and supervision all traffic activities in Croatia were going on (people's railway, post, telegraph and telephone, radio, road and river traffic). Executive control and direct administration of the Croatian railway service was a task of the Directorate of People's Railways in Croatia. And finally, a testimony of Vladimir Dedijer on partisan railways and sabotages of railroads, is presented, same as the citation from the speech of the minister responsible for railways in the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, regarding conditions of the Yugoslav railways in the People's Liberation War.