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Train routes operated by MÁV-START
9 routes · classic 8 · heritage 1
MÁV-START runs 9 of the routes in the World Train Map atlas, 1,019 km of railway across 2 countries. The longest is the InterCity Pécs at 229 km; the fastest is the InterCity Debrecen, running up to 160 km/h; the oldest line it runs over here opened in 1854. 1 of its routes crosses an international border.
The company itself dates to 2006, filed on Wikidata as a railway undertaking. What this page says about the company comes from MÁV-START'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 Q1180332 ↗
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- 9
- Total length
- 1,019 km
- Countries
- Hungary, Romania
- Fastest
- InterCity Debrecen · 160 km/h
- Longest
- InterCity Pécs · 229 km
- Oldest line here
- 1854
- Company founded
- 2006
- Type
- railway undertaking
Classic (8)
- InterCity Pécs
InterCity to Pécs, a sun-warmed city of Roman tombs and an Ottoman mosque near the Croatian border in southern Hungary.
Wikipedia (HU) ↗ - InterCity Debrecen
Hourly InterCity across the Great Hungarian Plain to Debrecen, the nation’s second city, on the 160 km/h eastern main line.
Wikipedia ↗ - IC Budapest–Szeged
Hourly ICs across the Great Plain to Hungary’s paprika capital and its vast Votive Church — the southern spoke of the MÁV intercity star.
Wikipedia ↗ - Balaton InterCity
Summer expresses to Siófok on the south shore of Lake Balaton, central Europe’s largest lake and Hungary’s beach playground.
Wikipedia (HU) ↗ - Szeged–Békéscsaba railway
Line 135 strikes east across the Great Hungarian Plain through Hódmezővásárhely and Orosháza; the rails carry on past Békéscsaba to Salonta, over a border drawn in 1920.
Wikipedia (HU) ↗ - Mátészalka–Záhony railway
Opened on 27 September 1905 as a local line from Nagykároly to Csap; the border of 1920 cut it in three, and this is the Hungarian piece, out to the frontier at Záhony.
Wikipedia (HU) ↗ - Hatvan–Újszász railway
Down the Zagyva through the Jaszsag, opened on 10 March 1873 with four stations on it and electrified a century later in 1975.
Wikipedia (HU) ↗ - Békéscsaba–Salonta railway
The Alföld to Fiume company opened it on 14 September 1871 and then went broke; Trianon cut the line in two, but nobody lifted the rails and the crossing still works.
Wikipedia ↗
Heritage (1)
- Children’s Railway (Gyermekvasút)
A 760 mm line through the Buda Hills staffed almost entirely by children aged 10–14: a Young Pioneer legacy still running today.
Wikipedia ↗
Photos via Wikimedia Commons — each route page credits the author & licence
How many train routes does MÁV-START run?
9 of the routes in this atlas are MÁV-START services, covering 1,019 km across 2 countries (Hungary, Romania). 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 MÁV-START train?
The InterCity Debrecen, Budapest to Debrecen, at up to 160 km/h. Its fastest scheduled run takes 2 h 20 min over 221 km.
Does MÁV-START run night trains?
Not in this atlas. All 9 MÁV-START routes listed here are daytime services.
When was MÁV-START founded?
Wikidata records the company's inception as 2006, and files it as a railway undertaking. The oldest railway it runs over in this atlas opened in 1854 — the line and the company are rarely the same age, and this page dates both.
Countries MÁV-START runs in
- 🇭🇺 Train routes in Hungary 41 routes
- 🇷🇴 Train routes in Romania 25 routes
Other operators in Hungary
- MÁV 11 routes
- GYSEV 5 routes
- Egererdő Zrt. 2 routes
- MÁV SZESZA 2 routes