Hungary - Diesel locomotives and multiple units

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These days quite a lot of cargo traffic in Hungary is handled by private operators. This picture from the yard of Komárom shows (from far away; sorry for the bad picture quality due to the +37C temperature) a private locomotive of the company Metrans. This machine of class 761 is a Siemens made so called Hercules, similar to the Austrian class 2016. Picture from Komárom 30.6.2015 by Ilkka Siissalo.

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MAV Nohab-GM No. M61-002 has just arrived at Tapolca with a train from Budapest Deli in June 1993. All the remaining M61s were based at Tapolca depot in the background, and worked passenger trains up the north side of Lake Balaton. The Nohab roundnoses were US General Motors' locomotives which the Swedish company Nohab (Nydqvist & Holm AB) modified to suit European requirements and sold to many countries in the 1950s. Still in 2017 as this text is being written, many Nohabs are in use. Hungary was the only Soviet block country which bought these western locomotives. Photo by Andrew Cooke A.I.Cooke@FRCA.maff.gov.uk Uploaded Dec 14, 1995

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