Hungarian Rail Hertiage on the move for holiday season
Posted: 28 Jun 2009, 21:51
A fellow Hungarian railway enthusiast friend of mine made me aware yesterday that he had posted a video clip on Youtube.
The clip depicts, on a rather unusual foggy Saturday summer morning in Budapest, a heritage electric locomotive – V42 527 towing heritage steam locomotive 424 .247 plus empty passenger in tow. The train makes a stop at Kelenföld station for a signal check. The train is making it’s way out of Budapest on it’s way down to the Balaton Lake district for the up coming summer holiday season, where every year heritage steam locomotives and other heritage locomotives are used to run a nostalgic service for a few weeks. This year it is 424 .247s’ turn and will be operated a nostalgic train service between Tapolca and Székesfehérvár, both towns being on the northern side of Lake Balaton.
CLICK HERE to see the video footage.
Interesting note: 247 is the sole surviving 4-8-0, active locomotive from her 424 class.
The reason behind the towing of 247 and the empty passenger train by heritage electric, is to save on coal and water, keeping to tight train schedules, better known locally as YQ’s, even though their first station call is Székesfehérvár, some 72km’s (by rail) away.
The clip depicts, on a rather unusual foggy Saturday summer morning in Budapest, a heritage electric locomotive – V42 527 towing heritage steam locomotive 424 .247 plus empty passenger in tow. The train makes a stop at Kelenföld station for a signal check. The train is making it’s way out of Budapest on it’s way down to the Balaton Lake district for the up coming summer holiday season, where every year heritage steam locomotives and other heritage locomotives are used to run a nostalgic service for a few weeks. This year it is 424 .247s’ turn and will be operated a nostalgic train service between Tapolca and Székesfehérvár, both towns being on the northern side of Lake Balaton.
CLICK HERE to see the video footage.
Interesting note: 247 is the sole surviving 4-8-0, active locomotive from her 424 class.
The reason behind the towing of 247 and the empty passenger train by heritage electric, is to save on coal and water, keeping to tight train schedules, better known locally as YQ’s, even though their first station call is Székesfehérvár, some 72km’s (by rail) away.