Kemence Forest Museum Railway

The Kemence Forest Museum Railway terminus is located at the southern end of the village it's named after, in Csarnavölgyi Street. The neat little reception building serves as a ticket office and a kind of museum shop, while moving towards the engine sheds and workshops, a small playground beckons the younger visitors. However, it is likely that children will first be more interested in inspecting the exhibited locomotives and hauled vehicles. The largest fleet consists of the MD-40 locomotives manufactured in the 1950s, but two BM-50 mining locomotives and numerous "kuli" are also on display at the small exhibition. In the former workshop, you can explore a small exhibition about the history of the Kemence forest railway today – so it's worth arriving at least a good half an hour before the train's departure.

The trains depart from the platform next to the museum, staffed entirely by enthusiastic railway fans (who also repair, modify, and beautify the vehicles with their own hands and maintain the track). After leaving the depot and passing the level crossing, the train runs parallel to the asphalt road heading towards Királyháza-Diósjenő through the well-kept gardens and weekend houses of Csarnapuszta, resembling a toy railway train. No one should expect dizzying speed, but that's not what the small railway journey is about.

Leaving the picturesque dácshouses behind, we arrive at Kőrözsa stop, where on one side there is a guesthouse and restaurant, and on the other – beyond the creek – the remains of a former ski slope can be seen on the hillside. In the small lift house at the bottom of the slope, plate or pickaxe tools that once had better days might still be found today. Soon we reach Godóvár station – where the trains ran until 2000 when the railway was restarted. After leaving the double-track station, beside which in summer the Nagyvölgy beach offers refreshment, we first cross the Csarna creek. It's hard to imagine from the peacefully flowing stream just how much destruction it can cause during floods. (Anyone who disembarks from the train at the upper terminus and sets off even on a shorter walk along the old route can see for themselves what nature's power is capable of.)

From Godóvár, the tracks lead further through a real forest environment, inside a tunnel formed by trees. This is where the Királyháza and Csarna Valley lines once diverged. If we got off here, we would find nearby the Börzsöny leveling primary point, a cartographic fixed point indicating altitude above the Adriatic Sea. The continuously rising steel track once again runs parallel to the forestry asphalt road to the current terminus, Feketevölgy. Here, a guesthouse with a restaurant awaits visitors, along with numerous hiking trails that can be followed further, either to explore the former routes – but of course, in the wild Börzsöny forest plenty of marked trails lead on longer or shorter hikes.