摘要：During the winter of 1916,two significant railway events became the centre of wartime public attention.First,one of the express trains returning from Vienna to Hungary from the funeral of the emperor Franz Joseph who had deceased at the age of 86 crashed frontally into a slow passenger train carrying mostly soldiers near Budapest,at the station of Herceghalom.This accident,which was one of the most severe in the Hungarian railway history,72 people died and more than 100 were wounded.Some weeks later,Charles IV travelled on the other Vienna-Budapest line,through Bratislava,to the Hungarian capital so that his coronation could take place according to medieval practice.Because of the festivities considerable delays were expected,but thanks to the expertise of Charles Neugebauer,railway engineer of the Hungarian Railways(MÁV),the new king's train arrived in time at the decorated Western Train Station in Budapest.
