Classic route
Mátészalka–Záhony railway
Mátészalka → Záhony · Hungary
- Distance
- 55 km
- Fastest time
- ≈ 1 h 46 min
- Average speed
- 31 km/h
- Operator
- MÁV-START
- Train
- MÁV-START regional
- Countries
- Hungary
- In service since
- 1905
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
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.
How this line was checked
- Line drawn from OpenStreetMap relation 252079 — the same nodes OpenStreetMap holds for this railway, thinned to within under 25 m of them
- The operator publishes this line's timetable: MÁV-START — a place to look it up, not a check of our drawing
- Wikipedia has an article for this line
Read more on Wikipedia (in HU) ↗
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