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MÁV CEO reveals when passengers can travel from Budapest to Belgrade at 160 km/h
Infrastructure on the Hungarian stretch of the upgraded Budapest-Belgrade rail line is “fully complete”, Zsolt Hegyi, the CEO of state-owned MÁV group, said in a message on social media on Tuesday.
“The infrastructure is fully complete, including tracks, switches, platforms and overhead lines,” Hegyi said.
Freight trains started operating on the upgraded line, which is set to become part of a corridor for bringing Chinese goods to Europe, on Friday.
Hegyi said one more task still lays ahead: finalising the train control system for the line. Software testing is underway, he added, noting that finishing that is a condition for starting passenger train service at speeds up to 160km/h. Trains can currently travel on the line at speeds up to 100km/h, he said.
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A shame they didn’t choose high-speed trains.
Only 160km/h is slow…. This is what trains in the west achieve between cities like Brussels and Antwerp for commuting.
A shame they didn’t think futureproof…. Waste of money
You forgot to mention that the line has no station in any major Hungarian city after leaving Budapest. Why didn’t they create stops at Kecskemet and Szeged? That is the biggest waste. The Serbs got stops in Novi Sad and Subotica. There is a Hungarian stop at the border town of Kelebia. From there it is a 46min drive to Szeged. If you were not “Not Larry” maybe you would have been smart enough to post that.
Larry, the line chosen for the upgrade goes nowhere near either Kecskemet or Szeged, the Kelebia line goes directly south from Budapest and avoids all major urban areas. They could have upgraded the Szeged line, benefiting the slew of passenger trains that use this route but chose instead to upgrade the Kelebia line. It’s function is primarily to serve freight trains and it’ll carry very little passenger traffic compared to other main lines. Putting aside how wise it was to spend so much money on a secondary rail route, they haven’t done the job properly as evidenced by the 160 kph (future) speed limit while its continuation in Serbia will offer a 200 kph limit and all of the intercity trains using the line will be technically capable of the higher limit but won’t be able to reach it while in Hungary. I’d imagine they’d have had to spend a lot more on civil engineering projects to abolish the level crossings in order to permit 200 kph running, requiring bridges or underpasses at all locations where roads presently cross the line.