Technikatörténeti szemle 3. (1964)

Mészáros Vince: Az első vasútépítési kísérlet Magyarországon

way section. It was completed within a few weeks and the festive inauguration took place on 7th August 1827. However, the railway did not come up to expectations and in March 1828, after hardly 8 months of operation, the company decided to pull down its structures. This put an end to the first Hungarian capitalist railway enter, prise. The failure of the experiment was due first of all to constructional errors: for reasons of economy soft timber supports were used, which were not even impregnated, and were placed too wide apart from each other. As a result of this the supports deteriorated within an extremely short time and required frequent replacement. The additional expenditure involved, and the recurring breakdowns in the service doomed the venture to failure. According to unwritten tradition, the collapse of the supports was "precipitated" by the carters who sensed a competitor in the railway.