Heritage route
Children’s Railway (Gyermekvasút)
Széchenyi-hegy → Hűvösvölgy · Hungary
- Distance
- 11 km
- Fastest time
- 45 min
- Average speed
- 15 km/h
- Top speed
- 20 km/h
- Operator
- MÁV-START
- Train
- Mk45 + narrow-gauge coaches
- Countries
- Hungary
- In service since
- 1950
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
A 760 mm line through the Buda Hills staffed almost entirely by children aged 10–14: a Young Pioneer legacy still running today.
How this line was checked
- Line drawn from OpenStreetMap relation 11579632 — the same nodes OpenStreetMap holds for this railway, thinned to within under 25 m of them
- Checked against OpenStreetMap: the whole line lies on real track, a median 4 m from it
- Checked against the running timetable via Transitous: our line sits under 100 m from the shape of Sz 30122
- Wikipedia has an article for this line
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