Budapest for Train Lovers

The Hungarian railway museum

The Hungarian Railway Museum displaying over a hundred railway vehicles and equipment of varying ages on a site of over 70,000 m2.

Visitors can drive a steam engine, travel in a car converted for rails, operate a hand-cart, ride on the turntable and on the horse tram. The engine simulator offers a virtual experience of driving the most powerful Hungarian electric railway engine, while the rail-cycle challenges one's sense of balance. There is also a model railway that visitors can admire and even operate in the maroon postal wagon.

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Hungarian museum of science, technology and transport – 20% off with hi card!

The Hungarian Museum of Science, Technology and Transport offers 8 different sites of exhibition across the country. One of these, the Transport Museum in Budapest, in the city park is showing the history of motorcycling and automobiles with the oldest auto mobiles made from the 19th century by Peugeot in 1898 and an 1899 Oldsmobile. Train lovers also find what their interested in if they visit "150 Years of the Hungarian State Railways” exhibition.

At the Hungarian Navigation exhibition models can be seen to get acquainted with the Hungarian ships sailing on the Danube, on Lake Balaton and on the seas. In the “Hall of celebrities” commemorates Hungarian discoverers and travelers that ventured to go places where no Hungarian had ever risked going before (saiting around the World, Space, Zeppelin).

In front of the Museum you find the legendary “424”  steam locomotive, one of the most successful manufactured types of Hungarian railway engine.