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TRAINS on POSTAL STATIONERY HUNGARY

	PC - 1890's - H&G 17v10 - streetcar and tracks, Budapest The "v10" in the H&G number means this is one of at least 10 issued in its series. TG adds "The tram is outside the National Museum in Budapest." KD adds The first Hungary items were issued as both 2 and 5 crowns values in 1896. This applies to the tramcar in Budapest already included in your listing
	KD - shows railway bridge at Esztergom across R.Danube - destroyed in World War 2 The first Hungary items were issued as both 2 and 5 crowns values in 1896.
	KD - railway bridge at Trencsen - modern day Trencin in Slovakia The first Hungary items were issued as both 2 and 5 crowns values in 1896. KD and DL
	KD - 16f issued 1931 showing a tram at Kiralyi Curia in Budapest
	PC - 1949 H&G ?? - 50 f indicium (same as Sc. C67) with locomotive and other modes of modern mail transportation KD - blank on reverse, issued 11 Dec 1949 for Stamp Day
	PC - 1954(?) - 20 f indicium with design similar to C73, Train at Diósgyör steelworks. Ref. MSZ 430-54. 1 Text running vertically up center reads "Állami Nyomda, Budapest. - Ára: 30 fillér." Also occurs with Ref. MNOSZ 430-54. 1 Text running vertically up center reads "Állami Nyomda, Budapest. - Ára: 28 fillér." TG
	PC - 1954(?) - 40 f indicium with design similar to C73, Train at Diósgyör steelworks. Ref. MSZ 430-54. 1. Text running vertically up center reads "Állami Nyomda, Budapest. - Ára: 50 fillér." Ref. = MNOSZ 430-54. 1. Text running vertically up center reads "Állami Nyomda, Budapest. - Ára: 48 fillér."
	PC - 1979 - 60 f ind, cachet with streetcar and tracks, people, IYC emblem (traffic safety)
	1982 - 1 Ft ind., white doves on blue bkgd. - 34th International Railwaymen's Esperanto Congress, Balatonfüred, 2nd - 8th May, 1982. Design: Class V63 electric locomotive. TG
	PC - 1983 - 1 Ft ind with portrait of Verebely Laszlo, 1883-1959, cachet with scene showing electric train, power plant, power lines.
	PC - 1984 - 1 Ft ind. with electric railcar, cachet 100th anniv. Budapest East station
	PPC - 1985 (?) - 2 Ft red ind., photo on reverse incl. Budapest Nyugati Pályaudvar (Budapest West Station, built by Eiffel who built the Eiffel Tower.). In the distance, on the left, behind the trees, is a MacDonalds. Notice the tram on the right and the entrance to the Metro (Subway). TG
	PC- 1985 - 2 Ft ind. - cachet with silhouette of steam loco and tender, Railwaymen's Day ATA HB entry: MiP337 7/12/85 2 Ft Postal card - imprinted stamp indicium has portrait of Gábor Baross (1848-1892), postal administrator; Minister of Commerce & Communication; organizer of Hungarian State Railways (MAV) & unified Austro-Hungarian railroad system (see #3149/50)
	PC - 1985 - 2 Ft ind, cachet with images of four locomotives of various types, map of route from Kassa to Miskolc - 125th anniv. of that route? TG adds - "Indeed it is the 125th anniversary of Kassa - Miskolc Railway. Note however that Kassa is now in Slovakia and is called Ko?ice."
	KD - James Watt on the imprinted 2 Forint stamp and his steam engine issued 18 Sep 1986
	PC - 1986 (?) - 2 Forint - 'Greetings from Budapest' in Hungarian, German, English & Russian Shows Buda Hill funicular railway KD - I think the railway reopened in 1986 so the card probably dates from just after that date
	1987 - 2 Ft ind. and cachet - Centenary of Budapest Local Railways [HÉV = (Budapesti) helyiérdekü vasutak]. The station shown in outline is Szentendre and the indicium shows one of the suburban electric trains which run out there from Budapest. Cachet shows an old tram locomotive and carriages that have been preserved (see photo at left). (Szentendre means St. Andrew.) TG
	PC - 1987 - 2 Ft ind., cachet with electric streetcar, 100th anniversary of Electric trains TG - Centenary of Budapest Electric Railway. I am guessing here but I think BKV in the indicium must stand for Budapest Kerepes Vasút (i.e. Budapest - Kerepes Railway, about 16 km.). (My book on Hungarian Railways gives BKV = Balatonszentgyörgy-Keszthelyi Vasút, but this makes no sense whatsoever in the present context.)
	PC - 1988 - 2 Ft ind. with portrait of Saxlehner Andras, 125th anniv. of Health Spa at Gyogyvizek, cachet with view of steam train approaching spa.
	PPC - 1990 (?) - 3 Ft ind. with map of Hungary, photo on reverse incl. Narrow gauge train at Veröcemaros, which is on the Danube, north of Budapest, on the famous 'Danube Bend.'. Ref MT. - 121/901. TG PPC - 1990 - 3 F ind in blue with map of Hungary, reverse has photo "Verocemaros" incl train CP
	PPC - 1990 (?) - 3 Ft ind. with map of Hungary, photo on reverse : "Greetings from Szilvásvárad." Miniature train in park at Szilvásvárad, which is about midway between Eger and Putnok. (Note that the final three letters - "ról" - are merely an inflexion.) Ref OT. 132/901. TG
	PPC - 1990 (?) KD - 7 shows the Directing and Computer Centre of the Hungarian State Railways in Zahony (described in English, Russian & Hungarian on the reverse)
	PPC - 1990 (?) KD - 6 shows another tourist forest railway
	PPC - 1990 (?) KD - 3 Forint card narrow gauge steam train from Balatonfenyves - much of this system closed in 2003 because of the poor state of the track, and the steam loco no longer operates
	PPC - 1990 (?) KD - forest railway at Nagyborzsony
	PPC - 1991 (?) - 5 Ft ind. with map of Hungary, photo on reverse incl. Narrow gauge train at Mátrafüred, which is 80 km. N.E. of Budapest in the Mátra Mountains. (fürdo means a bath so I guess füred means baths or a spa, as in Balatonfüred.) Ref MT. 27/911. TG
	PPC - 1991 (?) KD - 5 Forint card tourist railway in Gyongyos
	PC - 1991 - 7 Ft ind. with early mail car, cachet with early steam train, 100 years of Postal Mail Train(?). TG - The inscription here (100 ÉVES VONAT) means "The 100 Year Old Train" (nothing to do with railway mail). The loco is 4-4-0 No. 269 class Ia (later MÁV class 220) of 1881. I know that makes it 110 years old, but the information is correct. I have a little booklet about it - see scan at left.
	PC - 10 Ft - 1993 - cachet with view of interior of railway mail car, 125 years of railway mail in Hungary
	PC - 1994 - 12 Ft ind. with silhouette of railcar and other transport vehicles - International Day of Customs (?!) KD - container on a rail flat wagon on the imprinted 12 Forint stamp, issued 26 Jan 1994
	PC - 1994 - 12 Ft ind. with emblem of Temafila '94, reverse with reproductions of thematic stamps, incl. Scott 788
	PC - 1995 - 14 Ft ind, cachet with image of steam train pulling into station, people on platform, 100th anniv. of film industry (Lumiere - "The Arrival of the Train")
	PC - 1995 - 14 Ft ind with lead car of Budapest metro train - 25th anniv. Budapest metro
	PC - 1995 - 14 Ft ind with star against globe(?) - International Railroader Esperanto Congress (!?)
	PC -1996 - 17 Ft ind, cachet incl. early steam locomotive, 100th anniv of Hungarian Agricultural Museum KD - Then a challenge to one of the Hungary items shown - one card marks the Agricultural Museum in Budapest and it is described as showing a steam locomotive on the left hand cachet. I don't believe it is a railway locomotive, but a stationary steam threshing engine. I have been to the museum and it has no railway connections at all.
	PC - 1996 - 24 Ft ind. with portrait of Kalman Kando, 1869-1931, designer of electric locomotives & electric railways; design of electric locomotive behind protrait; 100th anniv. Kalman Kando Technical Academy

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