On 19 April 1914 the branch railway from Komárno reached Guta — the first fast connection the town had ever had to anywhere. Three months later Austria-Hungary was at war, and the town's men were called up to fight in Galicia, Serbia and Italy for an empire that no longer existed by the time the survivors came home. For a place that had always travelled by water, a printed timetable was a genuinely new idea. The line outlived the empire but not the century: Kolárovo has no regular passenger trains today, and you arrive by road.Devätnásteho apríla 1914 dorazila do Gúty odbočka železnice z Komárna — prvé rýchle spojenie, aké mesto kedy malo. O tri mesiace bolo Rakúsko-Uhorsko vo vojne a gútski muži narukovali do Haliče, Srbska a Talianska za ríšu, ktorá už neexistovala, keď sa tí, čo prežili, vrátili domov. Pre mesto, ktoré sa vždy pohybovalo po vode, bol tlačený cestovný poriadok naozaj novou myšlienkou. Trať prežila ríšu, ale nie storočie: Kolárovo dnes nemá pravidelnú osobnú dopravu a prichádza sa sem po ceste.
