Photos: Lovely Advent happenings at the Hungarian Children’s Railway

This year, the lightshow returns to the Hungarian Children’s Railway!

By now, it’s become a regular tradition to make the carriages shine at the Children’s Railway. This year, the carriages will be joined by some new additions as well!

True winter spirit at the Children’s Railway!

This year, visitors can experience the true Christmas spirit. Thanks to the heavy snowing recently in Hungary, the region has transformed into a winter wonderland. Perfect time for some outdoor exploring, or even better, enjoying the view from one of the nicely decorated carriages of the Children’s Railway.

The Children’s Railway operates throughout the whole year, including winter. During the school term, it runs every day with the exception of Mondays. Through the winter vacation, trains go out more frequently, operating with weekend hours. This means there’s a train going out every hour, which is lucky for visitors waiting out in the cold. Of course, on 24th December and 1st January, there are fewer services. Still, the Children’s Railway is open and has prepared some exciting features for guests, writes Impress Magazine.

Let the light show begin!

The carriages of the railway will be lit up from the start of December for the whole of the winter vacation. This year is special, since compared to last year there will be some surprising new additions to the illuminated section of carriages, writes Impress magazine.Three of the usual winter carriages will be transformed into a light show for the season. Added to this, the steaming new addition to the fleet of the Children’s Railway, introduced only last year, the ‘Debrecen’ carriage is also lit up, contributing to the winter wonderland. However, the season wouldn’t be whole without a proper light train, that’s why they decorated an Mk45 diesel locomotive too, making the whole set matching in holiday spirit.

For the holiday season, the Children’s Railway also treats its guests to another nostalgic classic. For the other lit up train, they are bringing out two of the most well-known and beloved sidecars.

One of them is the Lillafüred carriage from 1929. This could be familiar to those who frequent the Children’s Railways, since this carriage has already received a Christmas interior in the past. The other sidecar is one of the oldest from the collection of the Children’s Railway. This is none other than the green open-platform carriage made in 1912 in Arad. This train car can rarely be sighted in everyday traffic, however, for the special occasion of the holiday season, it will operate regularly. Until Christmas comes, it will mostly be accompanied by passenger trains, but during the winter break, it may be seen with the steam engine too.

Unmissable programme

Additionally, between the two holidays, there are fun programmes to try out, especially for train-lovers. On the 28th and 29th of December, a fantastic family programme will be held that caters to everybody. There will be a display of trains no longer in use where you can take a closer look at these discontinued vehicles and even climb into the engineer’s cab of locomotives. Another fun feature of this event will be the temporary exhibition that opens at the operational building of the station, which will also be available, because of its 75th anniversary.

• Read about another fun winter programme HERE.
• Read about other train related news HERE.