THE FIRST of 10 Stadler Flirt emus for Györ-Sopron-Ebenfurth Railway (GySEV) was delivered to Stadler's Hungarian maintenance centre at Pusztaszabolcs on October 20 for commissioning.

HUNGARIAN State Railways (MÁV) is making progress with the upgrading of the railway network around Lake Balaton, a popular tourist destination in the west of the country.

HUNGARIAN State Railways (MÁV) recently unveiled its financial results for 2012, which reveal that last year the railway achieved its first operating profit in decades.

THE Hungarian government has given the go-ahead for a long-discussed project to build a 113km freight line between Tatabánya and Cegléd, by-passing Budapest. This would be the biggest new railway construction in the country since 1912.

HUNGARIAN State Railways (MÁV) is to merge its passenger, traction, and rolling stock maintenance subsidiaries into a single business unit from April 1 as part of a restructuring which will also see the creation of an independent infrastructure manager.

HUNGARIAN State Railways passenger unit MÁV Start and Györ Sopron Ebenfurth Railway (GySEV) issued a joint invitation to tender on November 20 for a contract to supply 48 25kV ac emus.

SPEAKING at the Hungarian Railways 2012 conference in Budapest on September 25, Hungarian State Railways (MÁV) general manager and president Mrs Ilona Dávid, who also acts as the president of Györ – Sopron Ebenfurth Railway (GySEV), announced that the two railways will shortly issue a joint invitation to tender for 48 new emus.

GYÖR-Sopron-Ebenfurth Railway (GySEV) has announced plans to electrify two lines in a move that will close an important gap in the electrified network in western Hungary.

Hungary's new transport act, which was approved in April, is resulting in a huge shake-up of passenger services designed to improve efficiency and introduce minimum service levels, as Ferenc Joo reports.

HUNGARIAN State Railways (MÁV) CEO Mr Ferenc Szarvas announced last month that new managers have been appointed to its passenger, traction, and maintenance subsidiaries as the railway prepares to initiate an efficiency programme.