railway

30/04/2016

Orbán inaugurates light railway line in his birthplace

Budapest, April 30 (MTI) – New rails need to be laid down and the country must be built further, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said at the […]
30/04/2016

Hungary’s oldest light railway fumes again

Zsuzsi, the 134 years old light railway will be awaiting tourists at the weekend in Debrecen, writes travelo.hu. On this special day Debrecen offers programmes such […]
25/04/2016

Hungary to have superfast trains

MÁV (Hungarian State Railways) Start Ltd. invited tenders to purchase 20 IC+ train carriages capable of running as fast as 200 km/h to use on international […]
12/04/2016

Parliament approves revamp of Hungarian section of Budapest-Belgrade rail line

Budapest, April 12 (MTI) – Lawmakers on Tuesday approved the upgrade of the Hungarian section of the Budapest-Belgrade rail line. The upgrade is expected to cost […]
26/03/2016

Don’t forget to turn your clock forward!

It’s time to turn your clock forward and change to daylight saving time! Only a few people know where this custom originates from, and who were […]
13/03/2016

Supertrain from the US: Will the Budapest-Vienna travel time going to be few minutes? – VIDEO

The American high-tech research company Hyperloop Transportation Technologies (HTT) had reached an agreement with the government of Slovakia to build a local hyperloop system on Thursday, […]
20/02/2016

LMP: Budapest-Belgrade rail upgrade serves no Hungarian interests

Budapest, February 19 (MTI) – The Budapest-Belgrade railway development solely serves Chinese interests, the opposition LMP party said, adding that the government is doing everything it […]
28/01/2016

New trains with children’s drawings

The works of 9-year-old Zsófia Haidekker and 12-year-old András Farkas won the drawing contest called When I grow up, I will be a railwayman! As a result […]
10/01/2016

Time travel is possible and it is even cheap

You just have to go to Huvosvolgy, Budapest, and get on a little train which carries passengers since the 1940s, origo.hu wrote. Today, children’s railway is an […]
14/12/2015

Do you want to travel by train from Budapest or to Budapest? Here are the changes

According to turizmusonline.hu, journey time from Budapest reduces by half an hour in the directions of Linz, Salzburg and Munich from December 13. MAV START will […]
20/11/2015

New Hungarian railway timetable from December 13

The next year’s timetable of MAV-Start (the Hungarian railway company) enters into force on December 13, where supply was adjusted to travel habits, and service level […]
26/10/2015

Budapest dashes into the future with local trains of this kind

According to 24.hu news portal, Marty McFly would be a little bit disappointed, but an upgrade will do good to the trains from the 70s. Even […]
22/10/2015

Refugee crisis: railmen refused to work out of fear of contamination

According to hvg.hu, day- and night shift yardmen refused to carry out commands at Gyékényes station, because they are afraid that the contamination endangers their health. […]
17/09/2015

You can use trains for free for one day in Hungary

If you have a traffic license, you can travel for free on the entire Hungarian railway network on the Car-Free Day on September 22, szeretlekmagyarorszag.hu wrote. […]