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Rail transport in Hungary is mainly owned by the national rail company MÁV, with a significant portion of the network owned and operated by GySEV. 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.
Bridge over Ipoly River Sátoraljaújhely. As of 2023, 9 border crossings are operating, 3 of which have passenger traffic. Note that all of these railway lines were built in Austria-Hungary and became border crossings after the Treaty of Trianon in 1920. Some railway lines were dismantled as the borders cut them, so they didn't function as ...
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 ...
active, circle railway 335: HNP: Hortobágyi Halastó MÁV station Kondás-tó 5.2 760 mm: last train in 2023 336 Local government: Tiszakécske: Tópart 2.8 760 mm: active, children's railway 337 Szegedfish Lake Fehér: Sándorfalva: 11.9 760 mm: only cargo 338 KNP: Tömörkény Halastó Csaj tó 760 mm: last train in 2021
In 1890 most large private railway companies were nationalized as a consequence of their poor management, except the strong Austrian-owned Kaschau-Oderberg Railway (KsOd) and the Austrian-Hungarian Southern Railway (SB/DV). They also joined the zone tariff system, and remained successful until the end of World War I when Austria-Hungary collapsed.
The Sopron–Kőszeg railway line, also known as Burgenlandbahn and Günser Bahn, is a railway line formerly connecting Sopron and Kőszeg, two towns in western Hungary, through the Austrian province Burgenland. It is a single-track partly electrified line, operated by ÖBB (passenger trains) and GySEV (goods trains).
The Imperial Royal Austrian State Railways (Kaiserlich-königliche österreichische Staatsbahnen, kkStB), a company serving the Austrian side of Austria-Hungary, was created in 1884 [11] and in 1923, some years after the dissolution of the empire, the national company BBÖ (Bundesbahnen Österreich) was founded.