Train station - Mátészalka, Hungary

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The yellow older building of the Mátészalka Railway Station (today it is a railway history museum)
Shooting date (date of photography): 18/10/20142014
Created by: Robert Németh
Camera model: Konica Minolta Dimage A200

Mátészalka, Hungary
Railway station in Mátészalka
Shooting date (date of photography): 18/10/20142014
Created by: Robert Németh
Camera model: Konica Minolta Dimage A200

Mátészalka, Hungary
Mátészalka Railway Station
Shooting date (date of photography): 18/10/20142014
Created by: Robert Németh
Camera model: Konica Minolta Dimage A200

Mátészalka, Hungary
The newer, ferro-concrete train station building of Mátészalka with arched roof, and a train (a "BZMOT" model) in front of it
Shooting date (date of photography): 18/10/20142014
Created by: Robert Németh
Camera model: Konica Minolta Dimage A200

Mátészalka, Hungary
A steam locomotive from the MÁV 376 series near the train station, as a part of the railway history exhibition
The "MÁV 376 series" steam locomotive model was manufactured between 1910-1923 by the MÁVAG ("Hungarian Royal State Railroads' Machine Factory"), a company that existed between 1870-1988 under several names. This certain locomotive (No. 376-513) is a member of a 50-piece series that was ordered during the World War I, but manufactured only after the war in 1921 or 1922.
Shooting date (date of photography): 18/10/20142014
Created by: Robert Németh
Camera model: Konica Minolta Dimage A200

Mátészalka, Hungary
Bus terminus and railway station
Shooting date (date of photography): 18/10/20142014
Created by: Robert Németh
Camera model: Konica Minolta Dimage A200

Mátészalka, Hungary
The old railway station building, today there is a museum inside it (a local railway history exhibition)
Shooting date (date of photography): 18/10/20142014
Created by: Robert Németh
Camera model: Konica Minolta Dimage A200

Mátészalka, Hungary
The former train station building is a museum today
Shooting date (date of photography): 18/10/20142014
Created by: Robert Németh
Camera model: Konica Minolta Dimage A200

Mátészalka, Hungary
The old train station building
Shooting date (date of photography): 18/10/20142014
Created by: Robert Németh
Camera model: Konica Minolta Dimage A200

Mátészalka, Hungary
Train station of Mátészalka
Shooting date (date of photography): 18/10/20142014
Created by: Robert Németh
Camera model: Konica Minolta Dimage A200

Mátészalka, Hungary
Tracks and platforms in the Mátészalka Railway Station
Shooting date (date of photography): 18/10/20142014
Created by: Robert Németh
Camera model: Konica Minolta Dimage A200

Mátészalka, Hungary
Tracks and platforms in the Mátészalka Railway Station - Mátészalka, Hungary
Mátészalka Train Station
Shooting date (date of photography): 18/10/20142014
Created by: Robert Németh
Camera model: Konica Minolta Dimage A200

Mátészalka, Hungary
Mátészalka Train Station - Mátészalka, Hungary
Footbridge over the railway tracks
Shooting date (date of photography): 18/10/20142014
Created by: Robert Németh
Camera model: Konica Minolta Dimage A200

Mátészalka, Hungary
Footbridge over the railway tracks - Mátészalka, Hungary
Arriving train at the railway station of Mátészalka
Shooting date (date of photography): 18/10/20142014
Created by: Robert Németh
Camera model: Konica Minolta Dimage A200

Mátészalka, Hungary
Arriving train at the railway station of Mátészalka - Mátészalka, Hungary
Train station of Mátészalka
Shooting date (date of photography): 18/10/20142014
Created by: Robert Németh
Camera model: Konica Minolta Dimage A200

Mátészalka, Hungary
Train station of Mátészalka - Mátészalka, Hungary
The ferro-concrete railway station building of Mátészalka, viewed from inside
Shooting date (date of photography): 18/10/20142014
Created by: Robert Németh
Camera model: Konica Minolta Dimage A200

Mátészalka, Hungary
The ferro-concrete railway station building of Mátészalka, viewed from inside - Mátészalka, Hungary
The interior of the train station building in Mátészalka, including the ticket offices
Shooting date (date of photography): 18/10/20142014
Created by: Robert Németh
Camera model: Konica Minolta Dimage A200

Mátészalka, Hungary
The interior of the train station building in Mátészalka, including the ticket offices - Mátészalka, Hungary
"Legend", bronze statue on a stone pedestal at the train station
Shooting date (date of photography): 18/10/20142014
Created by: Robert Németh
Camera model: Konica Minolta Dimage A200

Mátészalka, Hungary
"Legend", bronze statue on a stone pedestal at the train station - Mátészalka, Hungary
The bronze statue called "Legend", representing a warrior fighting with a winged horse (which looks like a dragon for the first sight)
Created by Ferenc Farkas in 1990
Shooting date (date of photography): 18/10/20142014
Created by: Robert Németh
Camera model: Konica Minolta Dimage A200

Mátészalka, Hungary
The bronze statue called "Legend", representing a warrior fighting with a winged horse (which looks like a dragon for the first sight) - Mátészalka, Hungary
Az exhibited old steam locomotive (Hungarian-made MÁV 376 model) at the train station
Shooting date (date of photography): 18/10/20142014
Created by: Robert Németh
Camera model: Konica Minolta Dimage A200

Mátészalka, Hungary
Az exhibited old steam locomotive (Hungarian-made MÁV 376 model) at the train station - Mátészalka, Hungary
Exhibited old Hungarian-made MÁV 376 series steam locomotive
Shooting date (date of photography): 18/10/20142014
Created by: Robert Németh
Camera model: Konica Minolta Dimage A200

Mátészalka, Hungary
Exhibited old Hungarian-made MÁV 376 series steam locomotive - Mátészalka, Hungary
Old steam locomotive
Shooting date (date of photography): 18/10/20142014
Created by: Robert Németh
Camera model: Konica Minolta Dimage A200

Mátészalka, Hungary
Old steam locomotive - Mátészalka, Hungary
Exhibited No. "MÁV P-305" standard gauge motor-powered draisine (light auxiliary rail vehicle) near the train station
Not so long ago this vehicle also had a windscreen, it now missing probably due to vandalism.
Shooting date (date of photography): 18/10/20142014
Created by: Robert Németh
Camera model: Konica Minolta Dimage A200

Mátészalka, Hungary
Exhibited No. "MÁV P-305" standard gauge motor-powered draisine (light auxiliary rail vehicle) near the train station - Mátészalka, Hungary
The newer train station building at sunset
Shooting date (date of photography): 18/10/20142014
Created by: Robert Németh
Camera model: Konica Minolta Dimage A200

Mátészalka, Hungary
The newer train station building at sunset - Mátészalka, Hungary

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GPS coordinates: Latitude 47°57'4", Longitude 22°18'49" (N47 57.07 - E22 18.82)

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Exhibited No. "MÁV P-305" standard gauge motor-powered draisine (light auxiliary rail vehicle) near the train station

Not so long ago this vehicle also had a windscreen, it now missing probably due to vandalism.

The motor-powered draisines (aka railway motor cars or so-called "speeders") started to spread in Hungary in the 1950s. Here their commonly used name was PVG or PKVG, that is the abbreviation of approx. "the roadmaster's light rail vehicle". The 250 cm³ engine came from Hungarian-made Pannónia motorbikes, this enabled the vehicle to reach the speed of 60 km/h (probably that's why they had windscreens). However only the half of this speed was permitted for them. These vehicles could carry a maximum of 4-5 persons. Because the railway cars were about half ton in weight, a special lifting device was also built in to be able to turn them on the rails. But independently of this, the vehicles were able to go backwards as well.