🇭🇺 Operator
Train routes operated by GYSEV
5 routes · classic 5
GYSEV runs 5 of the routes in the World Train Map atlas, 287 km of railway across 2 countries. The longest is the Győr–Sopron railway at 84 km; the fastest is the Győr–Sopron railway, running up to 120 km/h; the oldest line it runs over here opened in 1865. 1 of its routes crosses an international border.
The company itself dates to 1872, filed on Wikidata as a railway company. What this page says about the company comes from GYSEV's own Wikidata item, checked against the countries its routes here actually cross before any of it is used; everything about the railway is counted from this atlas. Official site ↗ · Wikipedia ↗ · Wikidata Q181697 ↗
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- 5
- Total length
- 287 km
- Countries
- Hungary, Austria
- Fastest
- Győr–Sopron railway · 120 km/h
- Longest
- Győr–Sopron railway · 84 km
- Oldest line here
- 1865
- Company founded
- 1872
- Type
- railway company
Classic (5)
- Győr–Sopron railway
Opened on 2 January 1876 by the Raab-Oedenburg-Ebenfurth company, and still run by its successor GYSEV rather than by MÁV.
Wikipedia (HU) ↗ - Sopron–Szombathely railway
GYSEV's own line along the Austrian border since 1865, linking Szombathely to Sopron in the corner of Hungary that voted to stay.
Wikipedia (HU) ↗ - Zalaegerszeg–Boba railway
Up the Zala valley on rails the Transdanubian local company laid: Boba to Ukk in January 1889, on through Zalaegerszeg in October 1890, and now the first leg of the line to Slovenia.
Wikipedia (HU) ↗ - Neusiedler Seebahn
It opened on 19 December 1897 with all 109 km of it inside Hungary; Trianon moved the northern part into Austria in 1921, and trains have crossed the border at Pamhagen ever since.
Wikipedia ↗ - Pápa–Csorna railway
A slow 1896 branch across the Kisalföld between the junction at Csorna and the baroque town of Pápa.
Wikipedia (HU) ↗
Photos via Wikimedia Commons — each route page credits the author & licence
How many train routes does GYSEV run?
5 of the routes in this atlas are GYSEV services, covering 287 km across 2 countries (Hungary, Austria). That is what this atlas draws, not the operator's whole network — a national railway runs thousands of local services no map of notable journeys would list.
What is the fastest GYSEV train?
The Győr–Sopron railway, Győr to Sopron, at up to 120 km/h. Its fastest scheduled run takes ≈ 1 h 04 min over 84 km.
Does GYSEV run night trains?
Not in this atlas. All 5 GYSEV routes listed here are daytime services.
When was GYSEV founded?
Wikidata records the company's inception as 1872, and files it as a railway company. The oldest railway it runs over in this atlas opened in 1865 — the line and the company are rarely the same age, and this page dates both.
Countries GYSEV runs in
- 🇦🇹 Train routes in Austria 63 routes
- 🇭🇺 Train routes in Hungary 41 routes
Other operators in Hungary
- MÁV 11 routes
- MÁV-START 9 routes
- Egererdő Zrt. 2 routes
- MÁV SZESZA 2 routes