In 1840 work began on a railway from Bratislava towards Trnava — the first in the whole Kingdom of Hungary. It was worked by horses, because horses were what its promoters could afford, and it was laid along the flat ground at the foot of the hills, straight past Pezinok. A generation later steam locomotives replaced the horses. A town on a railway can sell its wine in cities it could never have reached by cart, and Pezinok has been on the main line ever since — which is why its trains still reach Bratislava in about half an hour. The revolution of 1848 abolished serfdom across the kingdom; Pezinok's own burghers had been free men since 1647, but the country people around them had not.V roku 1840 sa začala stavať železnica z Bratislavy smerom na Trnavu — prvá v celom Uhorsku. Ťahali ju kone, lebo na viac jej stavitelia nemali, a viedla po rovine pod kopcami, priamo popri Pezinku. O generáciu neskôr kone vystriedali parné rušne. Mesto na železnici predá svoje víno aj tam, kam by ho na voze nikdy nedoviezlo, a Pezinok odvtedy z hlavnej trate nezmizol — aj preto sú z neho dnes vlaky do Bratislavy asi za pol hodiny. Revolúcia roku 1848 zrušila v Uhorsku poddanstvo; pezinskí mešťania boli slobodní už od roku 1647, ľudia z okolitých dedín nie.
