Postal museum
On this site, the Postamúzeum—known in German as the Postmuseum—once operated in the building and yard of an old lóváltóállomás, a horse-relay station in Balatonszemes. Inside, the exhibition focused on the postal service’s three main functions: mail, parcels, and passenger transport. In the yard, a covered kocsiszín displayed long lines of transport vehicles pulled first by horses and later by motor traction. The yard’s largest exhibit was a railway moving post office car—a carriage that typically ran between the locomotive and the passenger cars. During the journey, postal workers handled sorting and processing tasks while the train was moving. At stops, they both delivered outgoing items and collected letters routed with the train, packed into standard post bags (postazsákok). …
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