Kecskemét narrow-gauge network
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 Kecskemét narrow-gauge railway
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| Route length: | 98 km |
| Gauge : | 760 mm ( Bosnian gauge ) |
The Kecskemét narrow-gauge network is a disused railway network with 760 mm gauge in southern Hungary . The starting and operating center is the eponymous city of Kecskemét . In Törökfái station, about 8 km away, the route branches into two branches of almost the same length to Kiskunmajsa and Kiskőrös . The narrow gauge network was operated until 12 December 2009 only in passenger and was at times for some villages in the kleinkumanischen Puszta lack-developed road routes the only permanent connection to the outside world.
history
The nucleus of the network was the field railway of a brickworks , to which in 1928 the 52 km long Kecskemét – Törökfái – Bugac – Kiskunmajsa small railway was connected. The operator at the time was Kecskeméti Gazdasági Vasút . The railway remained in the possession of the city of Kecskemét until after the Second World War before it was taken over by the Hungarian State Railways (MÁV) in 1949 . In 1951, the Törökfái – Kiskörös branch with a length of 46 km was put into operation. Since the end of freight traffic in the 1980s, the narrow-gauge network was only used for passenger transport until December 13, 2009. Used came here diesel MÁV series Mk48, for special trips was in Kecskemét also a steam locomotive available.
Kecskemét KK narrow-gauge railway station
Mk48 in Kecskemét
Two Mk48 in the Kecskemét depot
Törökfái branching station
Bugac Felsö station in May 1985
Individual evidence
- ^ Zsolt Balogh: A Kecskeméti Kisvasút napjainkban. March 24, 2019, Retrieved October 29, 2019 (Hungarian).