page_title: Kemence Forest Museum Railway
section_title: The forest railway
hierarchical_section_title: Kemence Forest Museum Railway / History / The forest railway
caption_attribution_description: Magyar: Kemencei Kisvasút, egyes híd
context_page_description: The Kemence Forest Museum Railway is a narrow gauge railway in northern Hungary. It is operated by volunteers during weekends between late March and late October.
context_section_description: The first railway line in Kemence was laid in 1910 between Kemence and Királyháza. The Csarnavölgy line, that is still in operation, was opened in 1913. After the two main lines were opened, several other minor railroads were constructed, most of them serving only some years.
  Every line was created to continuously slope in the direction of the village, therefore horses (and later locomotives) were required only to distribute the empty carriages in the morning, and then, when the cars were loaded, they were only needed to be braked by a brakeman, the gravity successfully carried the cars down.
  Throughout its history before 2000, the Kemence Forest Railway was never meant to transport passengers. There were no settlements around the railroad, and the forestry was not interested in creating a tourist railway.
  The widespread of forestal roads meant that the railway has a dark future ahead itself. In 1968, the Királyháza line was abandoned. The last remaining Csarnavölgy line survived it with 22 years, officially closing in 1992, however, it had almost no function in its last years. However, the tracks remained, and the forestry didn't sell it.
caption: The first bridge in 1986, before the flood damages
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