Part 2 - Driver's Eye View (Hungary) - Budapest - circular tour via Cegléd - Kecskemét to Budapest

We take a break at Kecskemét for our MÁV Class 424 4-8-0 coal fired steam locomotive No.424.009 to be serviced and for passengers to have time to look around the town and find a suitable place for refreshments. Locals visited the station to see the train and pose for photographs in front of or to the side of the locomotive. Having watched a number of trains come and go, it was now our turn to set off on the next leg of our circular tour back to Budapest. We left the overhead electrified network behind as we travelled back in time along a scenic single track railway that took our train through pleasant rolling farmland, forests and pretty villages. A succession of locomotive hauled trains and DMU's that would have looked perfectly at home in the 60's completed the scene. Our route took us past stations with unpronounceable names such as Hetényegyháza, Ceglédbercel-Cserő and Nagykőrös before we joined the busy main line for the last few kilometres into Budapest's Nyugati station .

Kecskemét - 00:34, Kecskemét alsó - 08:59, Kecskemét-Máriaváros - 12:04, Miklóstelep - 16:35, Úrihegy, Hetényegyháza - 21:20, Nagynyír - 22:59, Alsóméntelek - 25:29, Méntelek - 27:51, Felsőméntelek - 29:33, Klábertelep - 31:34, Lajosmizse alsó - 34:09, Lajosmizse - 35:51, Nosztalgia tanyacsárda - 43:27, Felsőlajos - 44:54, Táborfalva - 49:12, Örkény - 54:34, Hernád - 01:04:13, Gyón – 01:09:18, Dabas - 01:12:53, Inárcs-Kakucs – 01:25:49, Ócsai szőlők – 01:34:52, Ócsa - 01:39:45, Felsőpakony - 01:48:21, Gyál felső - 01:54:24, Pestszentimre - 02:00:46, Pestszentimre felső 02:04:12, Kispest - 02:11:32, Kőbánya-Kispest - 02:18:26, Kőbánya alsó - 02:21:54, Zugló - 02:26:21, Budapest Nyugati - 02:34:18,

Map at 00:46 - Google Earth/Google Maps
Map at 00:52 - Maximilian Dörrbecker - licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license
Map at 00:57 - OpenRailwayMap, Map data © OpenStreetMap - Open Database License

To learn more about our MÁV Class 424 locomotive, please click on this link - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C3%81...

This trip was part of a tour organised by the Railway touring company - for more information please click on this link - https://www.railwaytouring.net/

Track - Standard gauge 4 ft 8+1⁄2 in (1,435 mm)