FREIGHT AND PASSENGER TRAIN SERVICE AND RAILROAD YARDS AT GYOR AND HEGYESHALOM (RE DESCRIPTION AND NUMBER OF LOCOMOTIVES IN USE FREIGHT STATISTICS BY LINE)

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• Publication Date: June 12, 1957
• Content Type: REPORT

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Gyor daily:
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Budapest-Gyor-HegyeshaiOfl eight express passenger
1 local passenger trains, 12 express freight trains handling
also mail, four local freight and switching trains, and 16
thru trains.
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2. All freight and passenger trains on the Budapest to Vienna line were hauled
by electric locomotives with overhead trollies. The Budapest to Hatvan
line was converted from steam to electric in the summer of 1956. Steam
power was used for switching freight cars in the yards. Most of these steam
engines had been sent to Hungary by the US in 1949 to be used as scrap metal.
However, because of the shortage of locomotives, the Hungarian railroads con.
tinued to use them to haul freight and for switchingo They had four drive
wheels and, consequently, were numbered in the 400 group. Prior to the con-
version to electricity, scene of the 400 locomotives had been used to haul
as much as 2000 metric tons of freight. This, however, was on other lines
in Hungary not in the vicinity of Gyora
3. The major electric locomotives used on the Hungarian lines are called the
Kando, named after the man who designed and built theme There are 40 of
them assigned to the line from Gyor to He eshalom, numbered 001 to 040. A
newer electric locomotive had been bull in about 1955, having
separate power units on four axles. only about 15 of these were
made and they were used only for short trips so the Soviets would have less
opportunity to notice them apd take them away from the Hungarians.
the new locomotive was called Boczo.
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5. There were specific tonnage limitations on the various lanes in the Gyor
b9 Gyor-Szombathely: four express passenger trains, 20 local
passenger trains, four express freight trains, and four
local freight and switching trains (two incoming and two
outgoing)
C. Gyor-Veszprem: 20 local passenger trains, and two local
freight and switching trains
d. Gyor-Sopron: six express passenger trains, 20 local passen-
ger trains, two express freight trains and s.x local freight
trains.
This made a total of 14I. trains passing through Gyor every 2l+ hours
area: However, in most instances these maxitums were rarely achieved
In pre-Communist tines, nearly
every Hungarian freight train was loaded to capacity. There are two pos-
sible explanations for this, one being that many freight cars were out of
repair and simply were not available and, in the case of steam-powered
locomotives, the brown Hungarian coal was of such poor uallty that it
did not give the locomotives proper powery
the following tonnage limitations were in effect in 195
a. Hudapes: to,.Hegyeshal Line:
(1) With electric-powered locomotives - maximum
weight of 1A00 tons or a maximum of 120 axles.
(2) with steain-powered 1oct tive~ (prior to e1 c=
trification) - maxinpurn tonnage of 2I+00 tons or
150 ales. I estimate that all these trains on
this line would average approximately 1300 tons.
b. for to Tats Line: 1A00 i xiw tonnage:
c. Tata to Budapest (which included sane steep grader):
900 maximum tonnages
6. percentage of various typea
of freight handled by the freight trains operating in and out of Gyor in
1956: coal - 30%, gain - 20%, building materials - 20%, fi 4nd
vegetables - 1O, farm machinery - 55%, livestock - 5%, miscellaneous -
10%.
7. Only the main linea in the Hun vg ria~ railway syatem were operated with
electric block signalsm This included the line from Budapest to Hegyeshalcn,
From Gyor to Sthely there was a mechanically-operated block signal sys-
tem. On the line from Gyor to Vesz rem there was no block system at all. A
train was not permitted to leave one station until the train ahead had
naled back that it had left the foUovtg station on the. line Tha game
situation existed an the line between Gyt and Sopron. There was telephone
and telegraph service between statyons along the lines and also an ellett is
bell code systems The oonduetor of the train which had stopped at a station
would use this bell system to signal back to the previous station when his
train was ready to leaven
Electric power fov the operation of the railroads in the Gyor area was gen-
ereted at a power station at Banhidano this w e a diesel gener -
nit s'at'e on, There were three substations located at Torbagy, Nsgysentjoos,
and HcOrvath~eim~.e.
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