Train routes in Hungary

Budapest → Szeged · 191 km · ≈ 2 h 20 min

MÁV-START · MÁV InterCity

Hourly ICs across the Great Plain to Hungary’s paprika capital and its vast Votive Church. The southern spoke of the MÁV intercity star.

Szeged → Békéscsaba · 96 km · ≈ 1 h 42 min

MÁV-START · MÁV-START regional

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.

Zalaegerszeg → Boba · 56 km · ≈ 1 h 02 min

GYSEV · GYSEV regional

Up the Zala valley on rails the Transdanubian local company laid: Boba to Ukk in January 1889, on through Zalaegerszeg in October 1890, and now the first leg of the line to Slovenia.

Mátészalka → Záhony · 55 km · ≈ 1 h 46 min

MÁV-START · MÁV-START regional

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.

Hatvan → Újszász · 52 km · ≈ 1 h 06 min

MÁV-START · MÁV-START regional

Down the Zagyva through the Jaszsag, opened on 10 March 1873 with four stations on it and electrified a century later in 1975.

Ózd → Miskolc · 57 km · ≈ 1 h 10 min

MÁV · MÁV regional

Branches off the Hatvan–Miskolc main line and runs up the Sajó through Bánréve to the steel town of Ózd, on the Slovak border.

Szombathely → Székesfehérvár · 168 km · ≈ 2 h 34 min

MÁV · InterCity

Electrified but mostly single track, crossing western Hungary from Szombathely through the Bakony foothills to Székesfehérvár.

Füzesabony → Debrecen · 102 km · ≈ 1 h 51 min

MÁV · MÁV regional

Single track and unelectrified across the Great Plain, crossing the Tisza and the shallows of Lake Tisza at Tiszafüred.

Győr → Sopron · 84 km · ≈ 1 h 04 min

GYSEV · InterCity

Opened on 2 January 1876 by the Raab-Oedenburg-Ebenfurth company, and still run by its successor GYSEV rather than by MÁV.

Celldömölk → Győr · 71 km · ≈ 1 h 14 min

MÁV · MÁV regional

MÁV line 10, single track and still unelectrified, running south-west from Győr across the Kisalföld plain to the junction at Celldömölk.

Bátaszék → Dombóvár · 59 km · ≈ 1 h 14 min

MÁV · MÁV regional

The Danube–Drava branch through southern Transdanubia, single track between the junctions at Dombóvár and Bátaszék.

Szentgotthárd → Szombathely · 53 km · ≈ 52 min

ÖBB · InterCity

The old Hungarian Western Railway toward Graz, now the through run from Szombathely to Szentgotthárd on the Austrian border.

Tornanádaska → Miskolc · 58 km · ≈ 2 h

MÁV · MÁV regional

Hungarian line 94, a slow branch north of Miskolc up the Bódva valley to the Slovak border at Tornanádaska.

Kiskunfélegyháza → Kiskunhalas · 45 km · ≈ 49 min

MÁV · MÁV regional

Line 155 across the sandy Kiskunság between two market towns of the Great Plain, opened in 1912.

Nagykanizsa → Szombathely · 101 km · ≈ 1 h 43 min

MÁV · MÁV regional

Western Hungary north to south since 1865, from the Croatian-border junction at Nagykanizsa up past Zalaegerszeg to Szombathely.

Komárom → Székesfehérvár · 82 km · ≈ 1 h 27 min

MÁV · MÁV regional

Single track and still unelectrified, running from the Danube crossing at Komárom south through the Vértes foothills to Székesfehérvár.

Szombathely → Sopron · 62 km · ≈ 57 min

GYSEV · GYSEV regional

GYSEV's own line along the Austrian border since 1865, linking Szombathely to Sopron in the corner of Hungary that voted to stay.

Csorna → Pápa · 36 km · ≈ 1 h 05 min

GYSEV · GYSEV regional

A slow 1896 branch across the Kisalföld between the junction at Csorna and the baroque town of Pápa.

Oradea → Püspökladány · 68 km · 1 h 32 min

CFR Călători · CFR Călători regional

Over the Hungarian border on rails the Tisza Railway Company put into service on 22 April 1858, still the way out of Oradea onto the Great Plain at Püspökladány.

Hatvan → Somoskőújfalu · 64 km · 1 h 32 min

MÁV SZESZA · R 5827

Coal from Salgótarján is why it exists: Hatvan to the pits opened on 9 May 1867, and the single track on through Somoskőújfalu to Losonc followed in 1871.

Baja → Kiskunhalas · 76 km · 1 h 6 min

MÁV SZESZA · IR 7802

Trianon cut two branch lines in half and Hungary joined the stumps: the Baja end opened on 8 January 1885, the Kiskunhalas end on 31 October 1903.

Békéscsaba → Salonta · 49 km · 1 h 8 min

MÁV-START · R 37630

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.

Neusiedl am See → Fertőszentmiklós · 49 km · 47 min

GYSEV · REX 63

It opened on 19 December 1897 with all 109 km of it inside Hungary; Trianon moved the northern part into Austria in 1921, and trains have crossed the border at Pamhagen ever since.

Balassagyarmat → Vác · 68 km · 2 h 5 min

MÁV-Start · R 32249

Two railways meet at Drégelypalánk: the Ipoly valley line reached Balassagyarmat on 15 August 1891, and the line south through the Börzsöny to Vác carried its first train on 11 July 1909.