Royal Waiting Room

A branch of the Town Museum of Gödöllő. Between Hatvan and Pest (Budapest is not existed just separate Buda, Pest, Óbuda) the rail traffic started in 1867. (This rail line is passing Gödöllö.) Same year Queen Elizabeth got the Godollo Palace and Estate as a coronation present. The royal couple and escort regularly traveled by train to Godollo. The Godollo station building was released on April 2, 1867. In 1868, a wooden, Tyrolean-style temporary pavilion was built for the royal couple as a waiting room. In the 1870s the railway traffic increased. The royal family staying in Godollo made the town to a trendy, fashionable summer resort. In 1874, the station was converted into a two-story building. In addition to the rail office designed first-, second- and third-class waiting room and a restaurant with dance hall. In 1882, a new Royal Waiting house built in neo-Renaissance style. The building designed by a major Hungarian architect, Miklós Ybl. - In the Franz Joseph's waiting room is an exhibition of the history of transport, a branch of the Hungarian Transport Museum. In Queen Elizabeth's waiting room and the Prince's waiting room can be see a local history museum focusing to the royal family cult.

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