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Thanks to the development, HÉVs will be able to travel faster on the three affected lines, so their speed will be up to 100 kilometers per hour in some suburban sections. The track will be renovated, the stations will be reborn and new cars without barriers and with air conditioning will arrive.
In September, MÁV-HÉV launched the first round of the competition for the purchase of 54 trains.
Of the twenty preliminary interested parties, only two finally submitted applications: Alstom’s Italian subsidiary, Alstom Ferroviaria SpA, and Stadler Bussnang AG-Stadler Polska Sp. Z oo (a consortium of the Swiss parent company and the Polish subsidiary).
Stadler, a manufacturer that grew out of a Swiss family business, won the MÁV suburban railway tender in 2006 and has since delivered a total of 133 Flirt motor trains to MÁV and GYSEV, and the forty-story KISS motor train is currently being released. In the meantime, the company has built its aluminum body and bogie factory and is preparing to expand its capacity further.
The other plaintiff, the French but multinational Alstom, is the largest manufacturer of rail vehicles in Europe, which bought the Canadian railway construction company Bombardier. Alstom manufactures high-speed TGV trains, but also offers conventional locomotives and coaches, suburban motor trains, trams and subway cars. The inhabitants of Budapest were also able to discover their products through the underground trains of the M2 and M4 lines.
The new trains will be available on the Szentendre (H5), Ráckeve (H6) and Csepel (H7) lines, replacing the 44-year-old, high-floor trains made in East Germany. The new trains will come with a specification so that, after improvements in design, these vehicles can be added to the fleet of the future Metro 5. If the tender is successful, the new trains will be available between 2023 and 2025.
Telex announced a good month ago that the two manufacturers will have to create a color scheme for both the traditional blue and green. The newspaper wrote that even among decision-makers, there is a debate about it so that the new vehicles do not acquire the usual HÉV-green color, but the blue-yellow colors of MÁV. The type is still in doubt, but experts say that both Alstom and Stadler are likely to start the tender with a modified version of their large family of rail vehicles in the bidding for more than 200 billion HUF.
According to the Budapest Development Center, the new trains will be able to travel at speeds of up to 100 km / h, will be able to carry 700 passengers, will have at least 4 seats for wheelchairs and will be suitable for transporting bicycles. The new vehicles will have a spacious, complete and spacious interior.
According to Dávid Vitézy, director of the Budapest Development Center, in case of a successful tender
new trains may be available between 2023 and 2025,
ensuring a complete change of vehicles on the H5, H6 and H7 HÉV lines.
On the Szentendre line (H5), modern barrier-free stops and a completely renovated railway line from Békásmegyer to Szentendre are planned, thanks to which it will be possible to remove speed restrictions and increase the speed of trains. The HÉV travel time between Szentendre and Batthyány tér will be reduced by up to 6 minutes, flights can be followed every 4-5 minutes, and accelerated flights will also be possible on the line.
The HÉV lines in Ráckeve (H6) and Csepel (H7) are also expected to be completely renovated, stops will be barrier-free, information to passengers will be renewed, the station environment will be regulated and speed limits will be lifted . As a result of the developments, transportation between settlements, the accessibility of the capital’s inner districts will significantly improve for people living in the South Pest and Csepel Island and South Pest agglomerations, and public transportation will offer a competitive alternative to transportation. private. Travel time will be reduced on the Ráckeve and Csepel lines: it will be possible to reach Kálvin tér in 30 minutes less from Ráckeve and 7 minutes less from Csepel.
The total non-reimbursable support provided for the project is HUF 13.7 billion,
The investment will be carried out by a consortium of BFK and MÁV-HÉV Zrt., With the support of the European Union, co-financed by the Cohesion Funds and the Hungarian budget, within the framework of the Széchenyi 2020 program.
On the outer section of the HÉV in Ráckeve, construction plans will be ready for the second half of 2022, and the planning of the tunnel section to Kálvin tér will be completed in the first half of 2023. The feasibility study for Metro 5 and the Related cost-benefit analysis will be available by the end of 2022, and plans for the Szentendre HÉV line will be completed by the end of 2022. Implementation may start depending on the availability of EU funds between 2021 and 2027.
The government has made it clear on several occasions that it wants to implement HÉV development in the next EU development period.
(Cover image: Budapest Development Center)
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