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Train routes in Hungary
28 routes · classic 22 · night train 1 · scenic 1 · heritage 3 · mountain 1
28 routes cross Hungary in the World Train Map atlas. The longest is the EN Ister at 874 km; the fastest is the Railjet, running up to 230 km/h; the oldest line dates to 1851. Every route links to its facts, photo and story, and to the interactive world map.
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Classic (22)
- Railjet
Follows the old Orient Express alignment down the Danube plain: centre to centre faster than any flight.
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) ↗ - 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 ↗ - 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) ↗ - REX Wien–Sopron
Vienna into Hungary the old imperial way: Wiener Neustadt, the Ödenburg plain, and GySEV’s green-and-yellow home town of Sopron.
- EuroCity Hungaria corridor
The Danube-bend main line: EuroCities every two hours sweeping past Štúrovo and the great river’s knee at Visegrád into Budapest.
Wikipedia (HU) ↗ - EuroCity Budapest–Zagreb
The only Hungary–Croatia day train: along Balaton’s southern shore, over the Drava at Gyékényes and down through Zagorje to Zagreb.
Wikipedia (HU) ↗ - EC Hornád
Budapest’s only direct reach into eastern Slovakia: the little EuroCity that grows at Miskolc, bound for Košice’s Gothic cathedral square.
- 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 ↗ - Miskolc–Bánréve–Ózd railway
Branches off the Hatvan–Miskolc main line and runs up the Sajó through Bánréve to the steel town of Ózd, on the Slovak border.
Wikipedia (HU) ↗ - Székesfehérvár–Szombathely railway
Electrified but mostly single track, crossing western Hungary from Szombathely through the Bakony foothills to Székesfehérvár.
Wikipedia (HU) ↗ - Debrecen–Füzesabony railway
Single track and unelectrified across the Great Plain, crossing the Tisza and the shallows of Lake Tisza at Tiszafüred.
Wikipedia (HU) ↗ - 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) ↗ - Győr–Celldömölk railway
MÁV line 10, single track and still unelectrified, running south-west from Győr across the Kisalföld plain to the junction at Celldömölk.
Wikipedia ↗ - Dombóvár–Bátaszék-line
The Danube–Drava branch through southern Transdanubia, single track between the junctions at Dombóvár and Bátaszék.
Wikipedia (HU) ↗ - Szombathely–Szentgotthárd railway
The old Hungarian Western Railway toward Graz, now the through run from Szombathely to Szentgotthárd on the Austrian border.
Wikipedia (HU) ↗ - Miskolc–Tornanádaska railway
Hungarian line 94, a slow branch north of Miskolc up the Bódva valley to the Slovak border at Tornanádaska.
Wikipedia (HU) ↗ - Kiskunhalas–Kiskunfélegyháza railway
Line 155 across the sandy Kiskunság between two market towns of the Great Plain, opened in 1912.
Wikipedia (HU) ↗ - Szombathely–Nagykanizsa railway
Western Hungary north to south since 1865, from the Croatian-border junction at Nagykanizsa up past Zalaegerszeg to Szombathely.
Wikipedia (HU) ↗ - Székesfehérvár–Komárom railway
Single track and still unelectrified, running from the Danube crossing at Komárom south through the Vértes foothills to Székesfehérvár.
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) ↗ - Pápa–Csorna railway
A slow 1896 branch across the Kisalföld between the junction at Csorna and the baroque town of Pápa.
Wikipedia (HU) ↗
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Night train (1)
- EN Ister
Retraces the original 1883 Orient Express alignment through Transylvania’s castles and the Carpathian passes.
Wikipedia (HU) ↗
Scenic (1)
- Győr–Veszprém railway
The Bakonyvasút: a slow single track that leaves the Győr–Szentgotthárd line and climbs through the wooded Bakony hills to Veszprém.
Wikipedia (HU) ↗
Heritage (3)
- 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 ↗ - Lillafüred Forest Railway
Narrow-gauge line through the Bükk mountains via two tunnels and two viaducts, opened for timber and now Hungary’s best-loved forest train.
Wikipedia ↗ - Szilvásvárad Forest Railway (Szalajka Valley)
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.
Wikipedia (HU) ↗
Mountain (1)
- Budavári Sikló
Opened 1870 as Europe’s second funicular; destroyed in WWII and rebuilt in 1986, it climbs to Buda Castle inside the UNESCO Danube panorama.
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