 Yonapot Kivarnok, Siastok. Hello ladies and gentlemen and thank you for joining me. It's von Nagyonsep Magyovarysh Keste. Today, I'm in the beautiful Hungarian city of Keste. It's raining. We've come here today to see one of the finest model railways in Europe. Now, I've been here a few times in the past. I did once make a video where we... ...beer music playing. I came here once where we made a video exploring the city centre. So, if you want to see more about the city centre, see inside the church and everything, have a look at the link on screen now. If you come here in the summer, this place is heaving. We're just on the edge of Lake Balaton. We're just up the hill from Lake Balaton. So, this is where all the tourist attractions are. And then down on the ground by Lake Balaton, you've got all of, you know, the water-like attractions. So, what I'm going to do, I'm going to walk off up here towards the palace. And then behind the palace is this model railway. I was getting rather wet walking into this model railway, so I thought I'd just get out of the rain for a minute and I've stopped at this creusel cafe for a cappuccino. So, I'm going to enjoy this. Hopefully the rain will stop, but I'm glad I'm going to an indoor attraction. I've just got to walk for a bit more outdoors to get there. I've stopped raining and I'm walking through the grounds of the palace in Keste. Once again, I have made a video of these beautiful gardens before. So, if you'd like to see more of the gardens, please do click the link on screen now. I'm heading off in this direction. There's various museums around the estate of the palace and around Keste. But there seems to be a museum that has something in just about everything. There's a coach museum as in horse and carriage type of coach museum. There's literally all sorts. So, you could easily spend a day if you were to visit Keste. So, I'm going to continue that way. Let's go and find this model railway. So, I've just come across the road from the palace. You can just see the town of the palace. And here we have a miniature railway. Now, we're not going to be going on this today because it isn't running. But as seems to be the running thing with this video, have a look at the link on screen now. I have been on it in the past. What we're going to see in today's video, and we've a bit of a puddle. I've got to go on a bit of a walk around. We're going to this museum here in front of us. Now, it's a hunting museum. So, there's lots of stuffed animals on the first two floors. So, that's not really what we've come here to see today. But the loft of it in true model railway fashion, there's a big model railway. Or should I say there's a few big model railways in the loft of this museum. Let's go in and have a look at them. Well, I don't think we're going to go in there to see the model railways. But maybe we had to have another look at the miniature railway. And I'm getting a bit excited because I've got a really good reason to come back. They've built an extension on the miniature railway. Now, when I last visited that tunnel was there. That's the tunnel stroke shed. And basically, you've got a station there. There's a balloon loop at that end. It went around there to a balloon loop at that end. But now, there's a junction. And it goes to here. And then there's another station. And there appears to be a line going off in that direction. This part of the park wasn't here. Look at that. There's another tunnel. So, it looks like they put another loop in. So, we have to come back in the summer. This is, oh, wow. Look at that. There's a giant deer or stag made of staghorn. That's really impressive. I was not expecting that. And I promise we are going to go and look at the model railways. But I think this is a worthy tangent. Let's go and walk straight for the mouth of this huge stag. That's impressive. And it looks like the miniature railway goes around in those trees. But if they extended the railway, it could be a really massive miniature railway. Anyway, look at this. Wow. I've never seen so many staghorns before. It's a bit of a weird place. But it's also quite an impressive work of art. That is amazing. Look at it. It's huge. Really huge. That's just one antler made of God knows how many hunters antlers. That's another antler. They must be, well, I'm not even going to try and guess how many antlers there are, but a lot of antlers. So I'm going to walk back through there. And now let's go and finally see these model trains we've come to see. We're inside the museum now. I've got my ticket upside down. I have my ticket to have a look at the model railways. As I said, the first two floors is a hunting exhibition. And we can have a look at a little bit if we go past it as a tag. But what we've come to see is the model railway exhibition. So that should be at the top of the stairs, which I'm really looking forward to seeing. So that's all. There's some models already. Nice bit of old tin plate, all the trains there. There's a model of an M61. Saw a few of those at Topolks a few years ago. And these are caught by these big models of Hungarian steam locomotives. So I think they might want to see my ticket. Let's go inside and see these model railways. So now we enter the exhibition and straight away we are at a railway station. Now this is Semenin. This is Austria. So there's three large layouts here. Now this is the smallest of them, but it's still just as impressive. But here comes a Taurus locomotive. So to give you an idea, we've got Austria down this side of the wall. Over here is Germany, a massive, massive layer. It's like some snow up there. And then on the other side over there is Hungary. So what we'll do, we'll have a look at all of the layouts. Now what I thought we'll do, we'll wait for a train here at Semenin and follow it down. Now because we're at the top of the Semenin Pass, have a look in there. You can see a large spiral. So the trains will climb up there. When they get to the bottom, or when they get to the top, that's how they make their way up and down. That's the behind the scenes section. But when the train is climbed up here, they'll come out of these tunnels. So what I'm hoping to do is follow a train down. But suppose you only want the train to come along. One hasn't actually come along yet. So I'm just going to hang around until I wait for the train to come along. So we've just seen a rail jet descending this spiral. And another Semenin Taurus Hall train ascending this spiral. So I'm expecting it to come out of those tunnels any second. And then we'll either follow that one down or another one, whichever one happens to come along next. So here we are. So there's the Taurus train, or Taurus locomotive should I say, a Taurus Hall train with Austrian stock. You can see various other trains in here. There's a plinth rail car. I did do the Semenin Pass a few years ago. I think I remember seeing that plinth rail car. So is it going to go? Yeah, it's stopping. So I think it's probably going to be the next train down. I don't know. There's a couple of other trains up there, roughly on the wrong side. It's all double tracks. So it's not like we've got to wait for a single line. So I've just seen the little light there. It's just gone green. So yeah, and she's off. This is a G-sev Taurus. I'm close enough now to see that. So G-sev is like the Ostro Hungarian Railways number 1074504. I can't take that off of my book because it's a model. She's gone into a tunnel. But if we go here to the other end of the tunnel, we should see her. There she is. We'll follow her all the way down the Semenin Pass. It's not normally that I can just grab it. There's a train going the other way. And there's our train. She's going to go over Impressive Viaduct now. If you think this viaduct's impressive, she's going into a tunnel. She's now going to go over this really impressive viaduct. So let's watch her. There she goes. That's brilliant. And then into the rocks. Just notice there is someone climbing the rocks. It might be hard to see. There she goes over another viaduct. It's basically viaduct tunnel, viaduct tunnel, viaduct tunnel. We've arrived at another station. I know the camera's not picking it out. There's a double-decker train there. So now I'm not sure if... So that one might go. Is the train... I'll train going to stop? I'm not sure yet. I'll train stopping. So let's wait. While we stop, this is something you couldn't really do if you were there. You couldn't normally just look across and see Germany, but we'll have a proper look at Germany in a minute. I think our train's going to go. Should go in a moment. The other one should go as well. I don't necessarily know if all the trains we're seeing on this layout would work over December in parts because I saw like the Vienna Airport train. I don't think that would come up here. I think they're just showing trains you would see in the Vienna area. Still while we wait for our train to go, just let you have a look at the building so you can see the curved sort of barrel roof of what we can see outside of the museum. Our train is still hasn't gone. You know, I can't see the lights for a while because it's behind the building. So hopefully our train will go in a moment. I'm just looking sort of down the path. So this layout stretches down there. I can't see another train ascending, but I've got no doubt our train will go in a moment. It's difficult, isn't it, when you choose to fill the station for quite a long time. That's what we'll do. We'll just have a look past here to see if we can see maybe our train will catch up. Look at this. This is like one of those like a half tunnels to protect the line from the falling rocks. You know, so you make quite an interesting, it's like a cross between a biodeactor tunnel when you look at it from the outside. And I'm looking back at the station. Our train still hasn't gone hard yet. Then it becomes a fault tunnel. I mean, it's just got like a little window there to see the train pass through there. You can also see it's a quite a gradient. Our train still hasn't left. It's quite a gradient going down to hence why there was that spiral. If you can see that little man there, that's actually a photographer. A man, a bit like I am, waiting to see a train cross this viaduct coming out the tunnel. It still hasn't left yet. There's another very impressive viaduct there. Look at that. That's amazing. It's a nice little train road. And then this is the end of this layout. The railway curves into a tunnel and it must run along the back wall up there. And then, as I said, it gets to that spiral. Give this train one more chance to come along. If not, I think I'll leave this layout. Oh, I see. Look, it's interesting. Oh, I see. Look, it's pulled in and it's making another train overtake. Another tourist will train. An OBB tourist has overtaken. So we'll follow this one down. Right now, the reason for our train stopping makes sense. So here she goes through the protection. And what we can do, we'll join the little photographer and we can also see the train crossing the viaduct. And now she's going to cross this other impressive viaduct. And she disappears into the tunnel. So that concludes the Austrian layout. What I think we'll do with the German layout. It's so huge. I'm not going to try and follow one train because the video will probably be literally ours. But I thought we'll just have a walk around. We'll have a look at it. I'm walking back to the start so we can see it. That's interesting. Look, on our alert, we've just been looking at various CCTV cameras. You can see behind the scenes the train going around. So what we'll do now, we'll have a look at the German layout. And then we'll have a look at the hunger. So we're back to where we started. But it's become night time. So we'll start our looking at Germany, not even projected the moon onto the ceiling. That's quite impressive. Up there, I understand the big railway station up there is modeled on you. So what we'll have to do now, we'll have to wait for it to get light because I can't show you too much. It all looks good. Everything with the lights. We can't really look at where we're going. So what we'll do, wait for it to become daylight again. And then we'll have a look around Germany in HO scale. Well, good morning. It's daylight again now. So let's look around Germany. Now this end down here, you see there's some snow. We're going to go out of the snow. We're going to see more of the snow at the end. I think it's the Black Forest down there. We're going to go to Nuremberg. I think that is today's Nuremberg station. I've not actually been to Nuremberg. It's not modelled on anywhere in particular. It's just a typical German landscape. So they've got a typical German village in the snow. We'll go past here and suddenly there is no snow and we're perhaps in the spring. You can see there's a typical railway junction here. There's a steam train there. We're going to take steam excursion across. I think that's the River Rail and it works a branch line. There's another train on the other side of the river. You often get that in Germany with certainly on the river Rhine possibly the Neckar in places. You're on a train and you'll see another train on the other side of the river. That steam train did just start to go but it seems to have a bit stalled. That was going to go off up the branch line. We'll perhaps watch some trains on the branch line at some point later on. So as we follow the main line here out the station, here is a monastery. So this is a typical German monastery. It's again not anywhere in particular. But if you travel by train in Germany you will see monasteries a bit like this. And now look here we are basically in the river because that's the bridge there. You can see one of these often see these freight barges in Germany. The branch line comes out that tunnel there. Wines its way around this hill along the next hill and we can just see the station. We'll have a look at that when we get round to there. So we get to this partner here. We have a city. Now I understand there's various buildings from Germany models here. Although they've even got trams. Although I don't think the tram is going anywhere because it's one of those single ended trams. So it looks like the tramway is just for show because it's a terminal. So in real life they'd have to be a loop for the tram to go back again. Maybe eventually they will but the tramway runs along the edge here. This is Berlin. Yeah so I understand this TV tower. The real one is in Berlin now. I don't think it's quite nice to see modeled here. You don't often see it modeled as a zoo. There is a zoo at Beckinscott model village in England in Buckinshire. But you don't often see them in model railways. I suppose because you need a really large model railway to model a zoo. Because they naturally take up a lot of space. You can hear I think someone's been along and I saw a man just jump off the side. And set that steam train up. Yeah and it's now climbing up the branch. There you go. So that's like I suppose in real life it's one of those railways. Not perhaps a full on preserved railway. But a railway that has normal trains, regular trains. And they also run a few steam excursions. That's quite common on German branch lines. The only railway we really do that on in the UK is Fort William Tamale with a Jacobite. But in the middle there's a big roundhouse. I think that's like a railway museum. One of those driving movies there. The camera's not picking it up. They are not playing a movie. There's a load of people sitting there watching Bugs Bunny by the look of it. All round here. So again past the zoo the little tramway runs all along here. All through the town centre or city centre. You just see a station, layers of trains. Is that another steam? That's not a steam excursion. There's a building in this corner here. I recognise. See that gate. There's a steam train going out on this. Stream by one. It's complete with sound. Gate. I understand it is Freiberg. Well I think I recognise it because I have been to Freiberg and Bryce together. I'm going to go around here and watch this steam train. It's always good to see it stopped now. Probably stopped to let another train pass. There's an IC just pulling you now. You see that? Well the tramway continues to run along here. It runs all the way around. So we get to here. I think we've got a fairground here. And then the tramway goes off around. And I can actually just see down there that there's a tram depot. So I'm not sure what happened. The main line seems to split. You've got two main lines and they both cross each other. That's that branch line I said about them. Look there's that steam excursion which we could see earlier. Just going to make my way through here. So we were over there a moment ago. As we come along here we're going back to Winter. It's funny it's been night, day, summer, winter. There goes the local hall train. There's across 245. It's like a diesel track local. There's another local hall train there. Double decker. So there's a lot going on. It's hungry over there. We'll have a look at that when we're finished with Germany. Well here's the computer for running the whole. That's how they run the railway. So it's a bit of a set to a pre-program that they run around. Look at this station here. It's huge. And it seems a lot of them sit here most of the time and then they go off on their journey. So I think that sort of works out fine. We've got two lines that it becomes one to come back. If you know what I mean. And then we go up here, big lorry park there. And then this is the Black Forest. And this is somewhere else I've been. This is Triberg. I've been up there on steam excursion. So I'm hoping we'll see a steam train winding its way around here because you will see steam trains there in real life. Is that an old mine there? It almost feels slightly colder now because we've come into the winter and the Black Forest. Now this is where models sort of have artistic license. You look here, the snow suddenly stops and this is hungry. We'll look at Hungary later on. What I'm going to do, I'm going to make my way over there just so we can see the last bit of Germany and then we'll explore Hungary. So here we are on the other side of the layout of that strange bit where you've got Hungary in the summer and the Black Forest in the winter. There's not a huge amount more of Germany to see around here, but it's got a very complicated railway winding its way down and around. And so I think if the train was to go around here, it disappeared into that tunnel. It would then appear out of this tunnel. And at some point also go around that section there. Yeah, looking at it here, you can see the line winds its way around. It's quite a complicated railway. There's a train just going off up there. I actually find when I go to these places, the models themselves are impressive, but I also find it fascinating to see where they go. Like you see a train disappear into a tunnel and then where you're going to see it next. That's what I found equally as impressive about these sort of places. Now that train we saw a moment ago, oh yeah, it's coming out of the tunnel now. Let's see what happens. So look, it's just coming around the corner now. It's going to disappear into this tunnel here. So will it appear over there maybe? I'm confused. Yeah, it has. Yeah, it's up there. It's just coming down there. So I think now it will pass through the station into that tunnel there and then down through these tunnels and eventually onto that one. Let's just see what happens. Well, it hasn't stopped at the station, so that's a good start. So is it going to come? It's got to come out of this tunnel here. It's the only tunnel I think it can come out. There it is. Yes, it's the same on this. It goes through another tunnel through here and then it should come out over there. I should see it any moment and that will conclude the German part of this video. Yep, there it goes. I feel pleased with myself. I've worked it out. We're now going to go over there and we're going to go to Hungary now. It was a like Budapest Delhi pova. Welcome to Budapest Delhi pova. Not looking as we know it today. This was how it looked until 1941 when it was bombed. So that's the old Budapest Delhi pova. The Tartra Trams like this still pass it. We've got, I think, the next Tartra Tram, a bit like in Germany. I don't think I can actually move. The next one is a Mischkoltz one and that's a Seged Tartra Tram. So you've got the three places that use Tartra Trams in Hungary. The other city where Tram's in Hungary. Debrusen doesn't use Tartra Tram. So that's quite nice. So that's Budapest with today's train. But the old station. You can see the engine shed there. So Delhi pova looks very different. I always think of Budapest Delhi pova. Pova's like a word for big railway station. Vashutalamash means railway station. Budapest Delhi pova is a bit like the London Euston of Budapest. Now I've got a train departing. So I'm going to sort of follow this. But as we sometimes have found out, they don't always go where you expect them to go. I think from looking at it, it will probably come out of this tunnel. The double track tunnel. I think. Yeah, there it is. So that's a push-pull train with an M41. I think those DVTs, they originally work with steam. They're the only DVTs probably in the world I know that DVTs drive in van trailer, but they that work with steam diesel and electric locomotives. There's another one. Another M41 propelled train. So I'm not sure where they're both going to go now. But looking in the fact we've got a single tunnel there and a single tunnel there, I reckon that's a balloon loop so that some trains can return. Because you've obviously got some trains that don't have, you know, can't be driven from each end. So we'll be to have a double track mainline running along here. Just down there is a ubiquitous V43 locomotive. Travelled behind quite a few of those. So I wonder which one's going to go and where's it going to go. We're going to follow this through Hungary and see what we can see. Oh, look, it's going back. So that one's going back to Budapest, Delhi, Australia. So I'm not sure if this one, if the other M41 is also going to go back to Budapest or is it going to go beyond Budapest. So maybe the little people who live here, they've left Budapest. They have to come to this station. Although they can't change trains because the line I said is a balloon loop doesn't actually have any connections here. So maybe they've changed to this train and then this train will go further. I wonder if I'll have to wait and see what's going to happen. It's the joys of model railways. You're never quite sure what's going to happen. There's a lot of trains on the Hungarian layout. And I think as I sort of looked at it as I've walked around the German layout, I think, oh, it's going back as well. Okay, so we're going to have to just walk. But because it's HO scale, it's not like it's a long way to walk. I'm going to walk to this station here. Sekesvahiva. Now, the pass from Sekesvahiva on the train many times. A little bit different. It might be a slightly scaled down version, except that's like the front of the station. So all that is a lectern over the back with a freight train. And there's another M41 pulling in. You can still travel behind these in Hungary, but not as much as you're used to. I quite often get the train between Zullo, I guess, and Paige. And from Zullo, Centre-Vance, Paige. Few years ago, it's always an M41. Now, sometimes it's a unit. So rail travel in Hungary, although it's great, there's not as many locomotions trains around as there was. It's an industrial, but this is a steelworks maybe. As you can see down there, there's a fireless steam locomotive. See just there? Fireless steam locomotive. So I'm going to show that to you a bit better. Yeah. So I don't know if that's going to go. I think that's probably just static. We'll follow the main line down here, see what else we can see. It seems to be a lot of movement here. Over in the background, look, there's a motorway under construction. See it's a motorway to about there. And then you can see they've started digging up the roads. Continue along here. Oh, this is the point as we saw earlier. Black Forest in winter, Hungary in summer. So what happens here? So this is Hungary. You can see in a minute, we're going to go over the railway, over that rather outscale bridge. Right now, if I go down here, I'm quite literally swimming in Lake Balaton. I'm in the middle of the lake. If you look all around me, it's Lake Balaton and some computers in the middle of the lake. So we're in Lake Balaton. I've swam in Lake Balaton quite a few times in the summer. Always good fun. And this is what Balaton's like. It has grass beaches. So it's a good place. Over here, look, here, I've swam across now to Keste. And if you think that building there looks familiar, that's because that's the building whose garden we're in. That's the palace at Keste, which we walked through on our way to get to make this video. So it's not quite as close. And the railway station has since been rebuilt. It hasn't got such attractive a building, but this is what Keste is over there. There's more of Hungary. So what we'll do, we'll go up over the bridge and see what else we can see. So we stand up here. It's good when you get on an aeroplane and you fly over Hungary and you can see quite a bit of Hungary. There's that motorway there, which we can see, and it has lava about its ending. Where's this? Ah, Nodzkenitja. This is, now I've passed through Nodzkenitja quite a few times. I did make a video there because there's a bit of a railway museum. There's a few steam locos on display there. Again, Nodzkenitja doesn't quite look like this today. Well, look, there's one of my favorite diesel locos just coming up the hill. We're about to see. It's a class M61. See it just there? I've always enjoyed seeing M61s riding behind them. You see another one in the station there? And there's an M62. They're the big Russian diesels, which I have also traveled behind some of them in the past. There's another one just pulling into the station. And if we go over here, that little M61 we saw, I haven't quite worked out this layout, but we've got track winding its way all up and around there, and it's going to come down here into Zala Luv, into Zala Luv station, I think it's called. So that's M61-11. Is it stopping? Looks like it is. So I'm going to walk on around here, see what else we can find. We're coming to the end of this huge one railway place now. Well, I think I'll do, though. I appreciate we haven't always seen a great deal of the trail, and it's gone dark. And the lights have come on. Okay, well, I can show you hungry in the dark. So, yeah, from... I know you can't hear me, so it's a bit like a voiceover at the moment. From time to time, it does go dark. I'm going to have to go out to finish the video. Look at that. There's the palace all lit up. So from time to time, it does go dark. And we're now at the other end of Lake Balaton. What I was going to say before we descended into darkness was I'm going to make some other videos where I don't talk in, just so you can see the trains, because I appreciate you haven't had a great deal of opportunity to see the trains. Up there, this castle, you can see. That one there lit up. I know you can't see it very well. That's Shemeg Castle. I have been there as well. It's not too far from here. It's just round Lake Balaton a bit. I think what I'm going to have to do is go back out here. Go out here. You can start to see me now. And we're back out in the foyer, where we started our adventure around the model railways. So like I said, I'm going to probably spend the rest of the afternoon here and have a look at the train. So I hope you've enjoyed this video. If you're in Hungary, do come and visit. It's a really good museum, very much worth visiting. So thank you very much for watching. Please do feel free to like, subscribe and comment. And from the Model Railway Museum in Keste. Goodbye.