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Wien Südbahnhof c. 1875 Trieste Centrale railway station, opened in 1857. 1829: Austrian railway pioneer Franz Xaver Riepl proposed a railway connection from Vienna to the Adriatic Sea, bypassing the Eastern Alps and running via Bruck an der Leitha, Magyaróvár and Szombathely through the west edge of Hungary, and then via Maribor and Ljubljana to Trieste.
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.
By 1910, the total length of the rail networks of the Hungarian Kingdom reached 22,869 kilometres (14,210 miles), the Hungarian network linked more than 1,490 settlements. Nearly half (52%) of the Austro-Hungarian Empire's railways were built in Hungary, thus the railroad density there became higher than that of Cisleithania.
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
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 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.
Drainage basins of Austria: Rhine Danube Elbe. This is a list of rivers (or tributaries thereof) at least partially located in Austria. Nearly all of Austria is drained by the Danube into the Black Sea; the rest flow into the North Sea. Rivers are listed twice, first by basin, then alphabetically.