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The railway network of Hungary consists of 7,893 km (4,904 mi), its gauge is 1,435 mm (4 ft 8 + 1 ⁄ 2 in) standard gauge and 3,060 km (1,900 mi) are electrified. Hungary is a member of the International Union of Railways (UIC). The UIC country code for Hungary is 55.
The whole broad gauge railway network built after the second world war. In the Záhony transfer area made many organizer (rendező) and transfer (átrakó) station. The aim was to establish favorable relationships with the Soviet railway. It has served the Ukrainian-Hungarian freight traffic since 1991. The operators are the MÁV and the UZ. [1]
Construction of Hungary's first railway line began in the second half of 1844. The first steam locomotive railway line was opened on 15 July 1846 between Pest and Vác.This date is regarded as the birth date of the Hungarian railways.
Note: Hungary and Austria jointly manage the cross-border standard-gauge railway between Győr–Sopron–Ebenfurt (GySEV/ROeEE), a distance of about 101 km in Hungary and 65 km in Austria. In Budapest, the three main railway stations are the Eastern (Keleti), Western (Nyugati) and Southern (Déli), with other outlying stations like Kelenföld ...
The former Austria-Hungary empire had a narrow-gauge rail network thousands of kilometres in length, most of it using Bosnian gauge 760 mm (2 ft 5 + 15 ⁄ 16 in) or 600 mm (1 ft 11 + 5 ⁄ 8 in) gauge, constructed between 1870 and 1920. Landlords, mines, agricultural and forest estates established their own branch lines which, as they united ...
The Budapest–Belgrade railway connects the capital cities of Hungary and Serbia – the Budapest Keleti railway station with the new Belgrade Centre railway station.. As a $2.89 billion, 350 km (220 mi) high-speed rail line project, the Budapest–Belgrade railway is also a part, and first stage, of the planned Budapest–Belgrade–Skopje–Athens railway international connection in Central ...
Heritage railways in Hungary (1 P) I. Rail infrastructure in Hungary (5 C, 1 P) M. Railway museums in Hungary (5 P) P. Passenger rail transport in Hungary (6 C)
The Budapest–Hegyeshalom railway line is a major east–west railway line in Hungary. It runs 185.1 kilometres (115.0 mi) from Budapest Keleti station, one of the three principal terminals in Budapest, to Hegyeshalom, near the frontier with Austria. The line is double-tracked, electrified, and carries significant domestic and international ...
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