The body of the showing is a collection of forty designs. The original documents of the bridge from 1858 are presently owned by the railway Dutch construction company Movares Nederland B.V.

There are also 14 photos of the construction works taken by the amateur photographer Anton Rohrbach of Szeged. The photographs were first sent to the count István Széchenyi. The Dutch company acquired the rare takes at an auction in 2005.

The Institution and Museum of Military History also lent 9 air photos taken by pilots of American fighter jets while bombing the bridge on 3 September 1944. These are also shown for the first time. The organizers borrowed a time table from the Transportation Museum, rails used on the bridge and also the 1:200 proportion scale model of the bridge.

As according to the plan, considerable traffic was to cross the bridge, two rails were constructed on it. According to sources, this was the first bridge of this kind. While its "contemporaries" were constructed of wood, the bridge in Szeged was made of wrought iron. On top of that, it was made with a French invention, the Keson technology that had only been invented 15 years earlier. Inside the pillar, two people dug the soil and the pillars were set in the ground thus. Though it was life threatening for those who worked inside the pillars, there was no accident during the construction of the railway bridge in Szeged. It was built by Ernest Gouin and Co. The architect was the 27-year-old French Ernest Cezanne. The intricate structure was mostly built by local builders.

In 1903 the professor János Kossalka, after fulfilling a detailed static study on the bridge, wrote his thesis on the topic for which he received his doctorate, the second doctorate in technology in Hungary.

The Orient Expressz also rode across the railway bridge in Szeged in the period from 1883 to 1888 travelling from London to the magical Near East. The Orient Express only had first class wagons and the passengers were only from high society.

The exhibition also presents articles from the period of a year and a half when there was no bridge in Szeged. The bridge, by the way, had to be destroyed because it was part of an important military passage. From Romania to Germany oil was transported on it, the Wehrmacht also marched across it to fight Romania in WWII.