Gulyás Katalin et al. (szerk.): Tisicum. A Jász-Nagykun-Szolnok megyei Múzeumok évkönyve 27. (Szolnok, 2019)
Történettudomány - Szikszai Mihály: Elfeledett vasúti létesítmények Szolnokon
SZIKSZAI MIHÁLY: ELFELEDETT VASÚTI LÉTESÍTMÉNYEK SZOLNOKON MIHÁLY SZIKSZAI FORGOTTEN ESTABLISHMENTS OF THE RAILWAY IN SZOLNOK September 1,1847 was a milestone in the life of Szolnok. The Pest-Szolnok railway was opened, which later influenced the life of the settlement decisively. The railroad to Szolnok was then built onwards to lead to Debrecen. However, they could not decide for a while in Szolnok where the railroad should go. According to one variation, it went from Szajol to Szolnok, and since they chose the line that went on the riverbank of the Tisza, they reached the then-still-flowing branch of the river Zagyva, the area of the Waterworks today. Even a guardhouse was built, but it was never used, therefore it was called the ‘renounced guardhouse’. The building still stood in the beginning of the 1900s, that was when the railway gave it over to the city. On the line handed over on November 19,1857, guardhouse No. 25 was built at the Alcsi section, which was later turned into a station. The residents of this part of town did not have to walk to the main station, they could get on here. The station was terminated in 1966, since due to high-speed trains, course correction was necessary. The third forgotten establishment of the railway is the so-called ’railway station to Hatvan’. It can be localized in the area between the late ‘Tárház’ and ‘Reptár’ on the bank of the Tisza. The building of the Hatvan-Szolnok railway line was started in 1873 after a long period of labour pains. It was already ‘MÁV’ (Hungarian State Railways) that built the line. This opened up the possibility of constructions that later lead to the becoming of the railway centre of Szolnok and indirectly the city’s status as the county town. The passenger station was established at the second ‘Indóház’ (railway station building) of Szolnok. The freight terminal was built around the old railway station on the bank of the Tisza. There used to tower a goods shed with its considerable size of a length of at least 88 meters, and a ramp had been built, so that the timber arriving on the river could be towed to the freight cars easily, and there was also a warehouse with six gates, a residential house, a well to supply water to the steam locomotives, and also guardhouses. Then the railways slowly disappeared and so the freight station only exists in memories today. 171
