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The railway track and the entire fleet of trains of Mátra Railway (northern Hungary), one of Hungary’s most popular forest narrow-gauge railways, has been renewed in two phases from 2018, with a government grant of about HUF 1.2 billion (EUR 3 million).
At the project closing event, Secretary of State for Forests and Land, Péter Zambó, said that since 2013, state forestry companies have invested some HUF 42 billion (EUR 106 million) in the development of forest welfare and tourism infrastructure, in which forest schools, lookouts, ecotourism centers, educational trails and forest accommodation facilities have been renovated or established, he added.
He stressed that
the new railway development will be more than just a useful tourism development, “as it will become part of a future based on forests.”
Photo: MTI/Vajda János
Csaba Dobre-Kecsmár, CEO of Egererdő Zrt., said that the development had been carried out with the support of the government and the EU over the past 12-13 years. On the Mátrafüred section, more than seven kilometers of rail track ballast was replaced, old railway sleepers were replaced with concrete ones, and more heavy-duty track material was installed.
This has improved passenger safety and load capacity on the railway section, and increased the sustainable frequency of services on the line,
said the CEO.
Photo: MTI/Vajda János
At the event, Máriusz Révész, Secretary of State for an Active Hungary, pointed out that the only way to get people to move is to make it an experience, so cycle paths are being built, tourist chalets are being renovated – five buildings have been renovated in the Mátra in recent years – and narrow-gauge railways are also being renovated. On the Mátra Railway, the section leading to the Szalajkaház was opened earlier.
Via MTI, Featured image: MTI/Vajda János