FARES

From 1st June 2007

Discounts

Section ticket
Section tickets can be bought for journeys starting at any of the mid-stations or haltings, as well as and journeys starting at either terminal ending at a mid-station or halting.

Line tickets apply for journeys starting at one terminal and ending at the other.

Children's ticket
Children between six and fourteen years of age are eligible to children's tickets. Under-six-year-olds can travel free of charge.

Family daily ticket
Family daily tickets can be used by at length two adults and three children travelling together or by at length one adult and four children travelling together. Only children aged between six and fourteen years count towards the number of children. Under-six-year-olds can travel free of charge.

The family daily ticket can be used for any number of journeys in any direction on the day of its issue. In order to avoid misuse, the full name of one of the adult passengers is recorded on the ticket.

Family daily tickets are issued only at ticket offices of stations. They are not available from conductors.

Budapest Card
The holder of the valid Budapest Card and his companion aged between six and fourteen can travel along the entire line of the Children's Railway using section tickets instead of line tickets. The holder of the card is eligible to an adult section ticket, his companion to a children's section ticket.

The Children's Railway is a point of acceptance of Budapest Cards but they cannot be bought there.

Validity of tickets
The journey must be completed on the day of issue. The journey must be started at the station where the ticket was issued. Return tickets are valid to the terminal station on the returning leg of the journey.

Suspending the journey and travelling on
The journey cannot be suspended and continued using the same ticket. Family daily tickets excepted. Other types of tickets lose their validity upon the suspension of the journey. Therefore a new ticket must be bought in case of travelling on.

Making use of discounts
The title of making use of either kind of discounts must be proven at the request of any child or adult railway attendant.

Issuing tickets on the train
If possible, tickets must be bought at the ticket office of the starting station before boarding the train. It the journey is started at Normafa or Vadaspark halting, or any of the stations that do not have ticket offices, or issuing tickets is suspended at the time, tickets are issued on the train without excess fares. The suspension of ticket office hours is announced on notices at the stations.

Return tickets and family daily tickets are not issued on the train.

If the passenger starts his journey without a valid ticket at a station were the ticket office was open, an excess fare is also payable on top of the regular one to the conductor.

Refunds
There is no room for refunding tickets except for extraordinary conditions (e.g. a train is cancelled).

Other fares
From 1st June 2007

Heritage train supplementary ticket
Passengers embarking heritage trains (hauled by a steam engine or the heritage motorcar) are supposed to buy a heritage train supplementary ticket in addition to the regular one.

All children under the age of fourteen are eligible to the heritage train supplementary ticket for children. Even under-six-year-olds, otherwise travelling free of charge, should also hold a heritage train supplementary ticket for children. All passengers over the age of fourteen should buy a heritage train supplementary ticket for adults.

No further discount can be taken use of regarding heritage train supplementary tickets.

Transporting bicycles
Bicycles can be carried on board in the special passengers' carriage with a dedicated bicycle compartment if it is available. Otherwise the bicycle can be stored in the vestibule of the car specified by the train crew without disturbance to fellow passengers.

The bicycle haulage is payable to the conductors on board.

Travelling with pet dogs
Pet dogs can be taken on board only kept on a lead and a muzzle applied.

The dogs' charge is payable to the conductors on board.