A vidéki lakosság vasúti utazása a Székesfővárosba : Ezredévi Országos Kiállítás, 1896

For two centuries, the local or national exhibitions provided a certain scene to meet novelties. Among these the one opened in London in 1851 could be counted as the first “world exhibition”. Acolourful exhibition was held in Budapest in 1896 amidst the celebration for the Hungarian Conquest’s Millenial Jubilee. Al-though this monumental display, held in the Városliget (City Park) was like a “world exhibition” in nature, size and attendance, it officially remained a national one due to its originating event. More than 5 million visitors bought tickets for this event, which lasted for half a year, and ended up being highly profitable. Most the visitors were taken to Budapest and then back home by trains – this generated a traffic of 6475772 passengers! The countrymen travelling in groups became acquainted with the new services provided by the railways, visited the monuments and landmarks of the capital city, and personally experienced the advantages and disadvantages of the bourgeois way of life

A vasutak és a dunai kikötők kapcsolata 1895-ben

At the end of the 19th century the Danube freight traffic was performed by nine companies. In 1895 freight data were recorded at ministerial decree, and with the help of the detailed sources one can follow the fluvial and railway freight traffic of Zimony, Újvidék, Vukovár, Gombos, Baja, Komárom and Gy r. On examining the traffic of transit in Danube ports one can state that the river boats and barges were important mediators of the united economic market. The freight traffic showed the signs of the division of labour and interdependence

A fiumei vasút kiépülése és annak város alatti szakasza

The gaining of a Hungarian railway to the seacoast had been the cause of several serious arguments in the Reform Ages. István Széchenyi had in mind a route that would start from Buda and would connect to the national network, while Lajos Kossuth wished to connect the Danubian port of Vukovar with Fiume. In fact the first railway towards the seacoast and the river Drava on the other side was built with Zagreb as a centre, then the Kelenföld-Baranya-Szentlőrinc route of the Hungarian National Railways – opened in 1882 – secured the direct access. The trains of the Hungarian National Railways travelled on the earlier built section between Dombóvár and Gékényes and on the route between Karlovac (Károlyváros) and Fiume, which reached the seaside docks of the city with the aid of a special tunnel under the town

THE DRAVA RIVER AS A CONNECTING LINK (HUNGARIAN-CROATIAN ECONOMIC RELATIONS IN 1868-1918)

U radu se prikazuju gospodarske aktivnosti vezane uz rijeku Dravu, poglavito mlinarstvo i promet, u završnom razdoblju postojanja ugarsko-hrvatske državne zajednice. Te se aktivnosti promatraju kao oblik društvenih veza između Hrvatske, odnosno Slavonije, i Mađarske. Zbog nepoznavanja hrvatske literature o tim pitanjima, autor se uglavnom ograničava na mađarski aspekt naslovne teme.This paper reviews economic activities in connection with the Drava River, particularly the milling industry and transportation, during the final period of the existence of the Hungarian-Croatian union. Due to lack of knowledge of the Croatian literature on these issues, the author is mainly restricted to the Hungarian aspect of the topic. By analyzing the transportation of goods on the Drava River by ferry boats, or over bridges, the following can be asserted: - compared to the former sporadic and low-volume shipments, traffic increased rapidly from 1868 to 1918 ; - ships allowed to ply once again as well as the ferry boats and bridges over the Drava River created conditions for trade; - the absence of customs frontiers, as a result of political decisions, caused an increase of contacts between the Hungarian and Croatian sides (although for this reason only few data are available for present-day analysts!); - the Drava Valley functioned as a unique economic territory and the inhabitants of both sides of the river were in everyday contact. The fact that many places on the Hungarian banks were inhabited by Croatian native speakers facilitated the maintenance of economic and human contacts; - the Drava did not separate but rather connected peasants, families and villages of the two banks