The Szentes collection of the Szeged-based Railway History Foundation was established to preserve the memories of the railway’s rich past. Visitors are immediately greeted by a German Austin-type military railcar from the Second World War, exhibited in 2012, and then, in a beautifully landscaped area accompanied by the cheerful voices of children, a six-seater handcar approaches along the track, seemingly encircling the building that houses the specialist collection. Looking around the small park with its ornamental fish pond and flower-covered paths, at the Thomas narrow-gauge railway resting at the Apple Tree stop, and at the locomotive shed standing right next to today’s railcars, who would have thought that this site, once the headquarters of the construction authority, had been successfully revived from its extremely neglected state, and indeed, to transform the neighbourhood.
