Heritage route
Szilvásvárad Forest Railway (Szalajka Valley)
Szilvásvárad → Szalajka-Fátyolvízesés · Hungary
- Distance
- 5 km
- Fastest time
- ≈ 20 min
- Average speed
- 15 km/h
- Top speed
- 20 km/h
- Operator
- Egererdő Zrt.
- Train
- Mk48 diesel locomotive · open-sided carriages
- Countries
- Hungary
- In service since
- 1908
- Riders per year
- ≈ 300k
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
Hungary’s busiest narrow-gauge railway: a steep timber line up the Szalajka valley to a waterfall, now carrying 300,000-plus riders a year.
How this line was checked
- Checked against OpenStreetMap: 16.7% of this line lies within 250 m of real track, a median 947 m from it
- Wikipedia has an article for this line
Read more on Wikipedia (in HU) ↗
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