For the seventh time, the Advent tram in Miskolc has become Europe's most beautifully decorated train, reports the transport magazine MHD86.cz, which announces the competition. With this, Miskolc has won all (all seven) Advent tram competitions so far.

In this year's voting, twenty-eight trams from eight countries competed for the title of Europe's most beautiful Advent tram. This time again, Pilsen came in second place, so they also retained their title from last year. Olmütz finished in third place, so Prague slipped off the podium this year. According to the Facebook post of the Miskolc Városi Közlekedesi (MVK) Zrt., the Miskolc railway will leave behind the Advent and Christmas trams of Belgium, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Austria, Poland, Germany and Croatia, among others.

The MHD86 portal noted: Miskolc has been participating in the competition with five types of ČKD Tatra KT8D5 with track number 202 for many years, this is the Miskolc advent tram, of the type that otherwise defined the Miskolc tram track for a long time, there are only a few of them and they are they only drive occasionally. In everyday traffic, only Škoda 26T vehicles transport passengers, they add. Incidentally, the European competition of Advent trams was organized for the seventh time, which means that

the Miskolc assembly has taken first place every time so far.

Ondřej Matěj Hrubeš, the owner of the MHD86.cz portal, said that they received a total of 20,861 valid votes during the voting period, and 58 percent of them were for the Advent tram in Miskolc.

The Advent tram in Miskolc was first started in 2012, when the Tatra-type train with track number 210 performed this function with an even more modest decoration. Since 2013, tram number 202 has been dressed up in festive decorations: in the past nine years, it has been painted red and antique gold, and in 2018 it was transformed into an ice palace. For many years, the tracks in Miskolc were lined with gingerbread houses, but this year they turned into a fairy-tale forest.

The train will continue to run for a few more days, to be exact until Water Cross, that is, until January 6.

Source: minap.hu

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