Traffic between Slovakia and Hungary to resume on several railway lines

Great news emerged: the Slovak Ministry of Transport plans to reopen several regional rail links between Slovakia and Hungary.

The Slovak Ministry of Transport plans to restart several Slovak-Hungarian regional rail connections, the ministry in question told the Hungarian News Agency (MTI).

According to the statement, the first rail links to be reopened are those between Lučenec (Losonc) and Hatvan and between Košice (Kassa) and Hidasnémeti. In a second phase, four other interstate regional rail connections could be revived, pending negotiations with Hungarian MÁV-Start, Paraméter reports.

According to the Slovak Ministry of Transport, the Lučenec-Fiľakovo-Salgótarján-Hatvan line could be connected to the Zvolen (Zólyom), Rimavská Sobota (Rimaszombat) and Rožňava (Rozsnyó) lines in Slovakia and to the Košice-Budapest EC in Hatvan, Hungary.

Once-popular Slovakia-Hungary railway lines to reopen

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It is planned that trains would run every hour during peak hours and every two hours off-peak. On the Košice-Čaňa-Hidasnémeti line, trains are also expected to run at hourly intervals during peak hours.

“We want to improve cross-border relations and thus strengthen the bonds between people living in border regions,”

Slovak Transport Minister Jozef Ráz is quoted as saying by MTI.

According to the Minister, the former rail connections were discontinued in 2003, but they are still very much needed. According to the ministry, representatives of the Slovak State Railways (ZSR) and MÁV will hold talks on the subject on Thursday.

The Slovak Ministry of Transport wrote that there is also a possibility of reopening further rail links on the lines connecting Hungary’s Komáron with Slovakia’s Komárno, the Lučenec-Ipolytarnóc-Szécsény-Balassagyarmat line, the Slovenské Nové Mesto-Sátoraljaújhely line and the Šahy-Drégelypalánk-Balassagyarmat line.

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