1882 · 10 October 1899 New owners, then the trainNoví majitelia, potom vlak

In 1882 new owners took the baths in hand and rebuilt them. What turned a country bath into a resort, though, was the railway: the branch line from Žilina up the Rajec valley opened on 10 October 1899 and stopped here. The springs were suddenly an hour from Žilina and one change from the main line, and the villas and hotels round the park went up in the decades that followed. Under Hungarian administration the place was officially Rajecfürdő.V roku 1882 sa kúpeľov ujali noví majitelia a obnovili ich. Z vidieckeho kúpeľa však urobila letovisko až železnica: lokálka zo Žiliny hore Rajeckou dolinou bola otvorená 10. októbra 1899 a zastavovala tu. Pramene boli odrazu hodinu od Žiliny a jeden prestup od hlavnej trate — a vily a hotely okolo parku vyrástli práve v nasledujúcich desaťročiach. Za Uhorska sa miesto úradne volalo Rajecfürdő.