Dr. Czére Béla - Dr. Vaszkó Ákos szerk.: Nagyvasúti vontatójárművek Magyarországon (Budapest, 1985)

Summary

SUMMARY This album has been published by the Transport Museum, Budapest. As it is expressed also by the title „Standard Gauge Railway Motive Power in Hungary'"

', the aim of this publication has been to give a comprehensive view on traction units having ever performed service in the public transport on the Hungarian railway lines. This was the first time, that such a collection of photos has been published in Hungary. According to this purpose, this volume contains standard gauge (1435 mm), as well as a number of broad gauge (1524 mm) vehicles performing public transport service on the Hungarian railroads in the past, and at present, respectively. The narrow gauge vehicles (mainly of 600, 760 and 1000 mm) operating in the public transport, as well as on lines of the forest railways and the agricultural railways, furthermore those running in industrial railway lines in the internal factory transport are not included in this volume. Out of the latter units however, those being used

—even for a short period

—in the public railway vehicle park, were also given a place in this album. Urban tramway and underground vehicles have also been excluded from this selection, since in addition to the vehicles used in the long distance service, our publication contains only vehicles of the local railways. For the sake of completeness however, this volume contains some of urban type railway vehicles which had first been put into operation by local railways. The traction vehicles considered in the above sense as "standard gauge" units are illustrated in this publication arranged in five sections : 1. Steam locomotives 2. Motor locomotives 3. Electric locomotives 4. Steam- and internal combustion engined railcars 5. Electric railcars At the beginning of each section a brief historical introduction has been given, summarizing the principal stations of the international and Hungarian development. There are all together 551 vehicles presented in the five sections; all theveh icles are introduced, of which any representation remained available at all. The major portion of the documents consists of photographs, and where no such ones could be found already, we published the earliest available, original outline drawing of the vehicle. In some cases we presented a photograph taken on the museum model of the vehicle. For the sake of historical fidelity, we did rather no retouching on illustrations otherwise requiring corrections. One can find in this selection practically all the types and type variations of the traction vehicles that were built in Hungarian and foreign factories and plants for the Hungarian State Railways, as well as for other railway operating in Hungary. Each illustration is provided with an inscription and with a table showing the most important technical data. A considerable portion of the data is given using abbreviations. The abbreviations of the names of the owner railways, as well as of the factories and plants building the vehicles can be found at the beginning of this volume in a section bearing the title "List of Abbreviations". The explanation of other technical data given in tabulated form, and of other abbreviations are contained in this section. At the end of each one of the five sections there are notes belonging to the individual photographs being provided with serial numbers which refer to the history of the vehicle, to its numbering system, to certain technical details, etc. In the sections dealing with the various vehicle types, the following informations are contained: 1. Steam locomotives In Hungary the first steam operated railway service was opened in the year of 1846, on the line between the cities Pest and Vác. Locomotives of foreign origin were operated on this line, as well as on other ones, that were opened in the later years, for example on the lines of the Hungarian State Railways established in 1868, The production of steam locomotives had started in 1873 and after a short time, home designed locomotives meeting the European standards were made available for the railways. The building of steam locomotives was terminated in Hungary in 1959. Under the 338 locomotive types and type variations included in this album inscriptions are provided giving the following data: the name of the railway authority putting the vehicle into operation for the first time, and possible changes regarding the operating authority, respectively (with abbreviations); service marking of the type, so that the early loco-