narrow gauge line that runs through the woods of the hills of the city on the Buda side, starting on Széchenyi hill where the chairlift just finishes her way up to, till Hűvösvölgy.
The construction started on the 11th of April in 1848 and only in 66 days the first 3 stations were already ready, which is very fast result for those times under hungarian circumstances. In 1950 the whole line was already running with full speed.
Those were the times when the first communists started to enter into the Scout Organisation and exactly in 1848 formed into the Pioneers Organisation.
This children were the first who started to work on the Railway in the spirit of the socialism and in order to get some workexperience at the Railways. Till nowadays children are on duty, but engines of course are driven by adult engineers, apart from that, children do their jobs, operate the switches and signals, print tickets and keep passengers informed, on their own. It is often called "the greatest child toy of the world," but it is not entirely true, as everything goes strictly according to regulations of any other railway line of the State Railways of Hungary.
The railway operates throughout the year, from May to August.
Trains run from 9 o'clock in the morning until 4 o'clock in this month and until 5 o'clock in the summer.
A whole way ticket costs 600,- Forint and the train goes for example this month every hour, in summer even more often. Students and children of course get 50% discount for the travel.
Timetable to check:
http://www.gyermekvasut.com/timetable.php?2012-05-14
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