Requiem for Zselic Hilly Country Railway Traditional Cache
Requiem for Zselic Hilly Country Railway
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You can commemorate a winded up railway
Requiem for Zselic hilly country railway (HU: GCREQU)
„Make hundred railways, make thousand
Let those spread over the world
Just like the veins in the body”
(Petofi Sándor, 1846)
I beg the great poet’s pardon for the poor translation…
He wrote this rows when he travelled the first time by the train on the first Hungarian railway line.
Not long ago, Hungary was one of countries those have the serried railway-network system all over the world.
But in the 1970s an unfavourable process has commenced. The not-profitable railway-lines were (and are continuously also today) winded up.
One of these lines is the Kaposvár-Szigetvár district railway.
History of Kaposvár-Szigetvár district railway across Zselic hilly country
This 54 km line was built in 1900, within 8 months (!) by 1500 pic-and-shovel-men and 250 horse-drown carts. They used low weight-bearing capacity 26,3 kg/m rails. Steam engines hauled the two-axled carriages and waggons. You can find an old Type No 376 Walschaert-Heusinger valve gear steam locomotive that is exhibited in Kaposvár railway station.
The railway line was winded up in 1977.
Searching the cache
In case you drive on No 67 highway from Kaposvár, you can park your car in front of the place-name-plate of village Antalszállás. (N 46° 12,4100' E 17° 50,3580')
You are heading East in the tourist-path signed by red strip that is in the sunk road of leaved and disappeared rails.
You will arrive in the forest soon and you make your way on a 30 m (!) high railway embankment.
You find on the North side the stairs leading down into the water-worn ravine walley. (N 46° 12,3920' E 17° 50,6780') 110 stairsteps are passable ones, but the lowest ones are ruined by water erosion.
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