This year we invite visitors to visit the Budakeszi Game Preserve, the open air zoo in the vicinity of the Children's Railway.

This year the spring weekend timetable offers more services than before. For this reason instead of a special service visitors are invited to ride one of the scheduled services running with extra carriages from Szechenyi-hegy Station to Vadaspark Halting.

The heritage railcar set will depart Szechenyi-hegy Station at 10:55, a regular passenger service at 11:15 and the heritage service hauled by a steam engine at 11:40. On the occasion of the event, all of these three services will call at Vadaspark Halting.

There is going to be a guided walk through the woods to the Budakeszi Game Preserve. The short trip will take 2.3 km, steadily declining with a drop of 101 metres in level difference.

After visiting the game preserve, the programme will continue at Szepjuhaszne Station with the onward ride to Huvosvolgy. The walk from the preserve to Szepjuhaszne Station will be 2.5 km long with a slight ascent of 61 metres in level difference. Refreshments will be offered at the railway station.

Visitors are going to be able to catch scheduled services into the direction of Huvosvolgy, also running with extra carriages, departing Szepjuhaszne Station at 13:19, 13:51 (the heritage railcar set), 14:12 and 15:01 hrs.

Lunch is going to be served in the Children's Railway Community Building in Huvosvolgy.

The rest of the afternoon the depot area and the engine shed, the Children's Railway Museum and the exhibition room of the modelling club of the Foundation For Children's Railway Participants will be open to visitors.

On the occasion of the Children's Railway Day 2012 a veteran bus service is going to be operated hourly between Huvosvolgy and Szell Kalman ter (Moszkva ter) from the morning till the early afternoon. A rear engine Ikarus 55 veteran bus will be on display all day outside Huvosvolgy Station. The timetable, fares and further information on the veteran bus service is published on the website of its operator. Unfortunately the pages are available only in Hungarian.

Tickets will cost HUF 900 for children aged 6-14 and HUF 1500 for above 14-year-olds. They will be available at Szechenyi-hegy Station from 9:30 in the morning of the event.

Recently re-constructed diesel engines, No's Mk45,2003 and Mk45,2004, are both going to be operated. They will be hauling scheduled passenger services.

The Children's Railway Day is traditionally the opening event of the series called Days of Narrow Gauge Railways of the Carpathian Basin. Its goals are to raise the awareness of and popularise narrow gauge lines. It was initiated and has been organised by The Hungarian Foundation for General Education on Transportation.

Source: Children's Railway