Mende, Hungary is a village in
Pest County,
Hungary
Hungary ( hu, Magyarország ) is a landlocked country in Central Europe. Spanning of the Carpathian Basin, it is bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine to the northeast, Romania to the east and southeast, Serbia to the south, Croatia a ...
.
Population
The small city of Mende has a population of 4,149 population living in 152.7 /km² (395.5 /sq mi).
Mende Railway Disaster (1968)
Located on railway track from
Budapest
Budapest (, ; ) is the capital and most populous city of Hungary. It is the ninth-largest city in the European Union by population within city limits and the second-largest city on the Danube river; the city has an estimated population ...
to
Békéscsaba
Békéscsaba (; sk, Békešská Čaba; see also #Name, other alternative names) is a City with county rights, city with county rights in southeast Hungary, the capital of Békés County.
Geography
Békéscsaba is located in the Great Hungarian ...
, Mende is known for the second worst railway accident in post-war Hungary. On December 22, 1968, a
passenger train
A passenger train is a train used to transport people along a railroad line. These trains may consist of unpowered passenger railroad cars (also known as coaches or carriages) hauled by one or more locomotives, or may be self-propelled; self pr ...
from Budapest Eastern Station to
Szolnok
Szolnok (; also known by other alternative names) is the county seat of Jász-Nagykun-Szolnok county in central Hungary. A city with county rights, it is located on the banks of the Tisza river, in the heart of the Great Hungarian Plain, wh ...
collided with a
freight train
Rail freight transport is the use of railroads and trains to transport cargo as opposed to human passengers.
A freight train, cargo train, or goods train is a group of freight cars (US) or goods wagons (International Union of Railways) haul ...
from Szolnok. 43 people were killed, most of them were women and children in the first two waggons.
The passenger train rolled on the wrong, "left" track because his own was freshly re-opened after repair and a railway officer had forgotten that.
Climate
Mende has an Oceanic climate, with a Köppen climate classification of Cfb.
Footnotes
Bibliography
Populated places in Pest County
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