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Our company has retained its traditional forest railway network besides public road transport in favour of complete implementation of wood material transport duties. With the help of the railway wood material in huge quantities can be transported using less fuel, even in unfavourable weather conditions as well.

We are striving to build wood processing plants along the railway and to decrease transport using public roads as far as possible. The modernization works of the more than one-hundred-year-old forest railway have been completed on the main line in the past years and it is still in progress on the branch lines taking freight transportation tasks into consideration.

Industrial railway transport takes 10 % of the entire handling of the wood materials of the company. To expand the utilization of the railway and to make our public welfare activities more colourful the track section between Lenti and Kistolmács, in the length of 32 kilometres has been opened for passenger traffic.

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The building works of the forest railway were started more than one hundred years ago; just because of economic reasons. It was horribly difficult to transport the logged wood materials from the densely forested Göcsej region in Zala County. Most of the forests were unopened and the valuable wood from Göcsej was transported only by carts on the existing forest paths of bad quality. It was a really big problem to transport the logged wood materials in the forests with loamy soils, on soaked, impassable country roads. The quality of the logged scots pine and beech wood materials declined if they could not be transported to the place of their use in time. Therefore, at the beginning of the 20th century the first narrow lane railway track was built. In the beginning, it was operated independently from each other: on the branch line between Lenti and Zajda, and on the one between Csömödér and Kistolmács.
To be able to use the forest railway both for passenger traffic and for transporting wood materials economically the linking branch line had to be built. The lines of Lenti and Szilvágy and of Csömödér and Kistolmács were connected between 1997 and 2000.
The total track length takes 109 kilometres these days, and it is recorded as the longest forest railway system in Hungary.

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