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New IC trains will also arrive in Debrecen in the future
Debrecen – Procurement of a new InterCity fleet has begun, the journey will be more comfortable.
The long-distance rail transport in our country is reaching a new level, the procurement of a new InterCity fleet is starting, the state secretary responsible for transport, Dávid Vitézy, announced in his Facebook post. The Government of Hungary accepted the proposal of the Ministry of Technology and Industry, according to the government decision published on Thursday, it decided to purchase 39 plus optionally 10 new, modern, control cars, including at least 7 long-distance train cars and 50 Siemens Vectron locomotives, primarily for them (but also for use in other trains). at the expense of a concluded framework agreement.
As he writes, this procurement will solve the problem of long-distance vehicles on all domestic long-distance lines, so that they will be able to be used in international traffic as well.
According to the ideas, in the IC connecting Budapest to Miskolc, Nyíregyháza, Debrecen and Szolnok, to Pécs, Kecskemét to Szeged,
In Győr, mixed with ÖBB trains, these new, closed commuter trains will go to Vienna, to the southern shore of Lake Balaton, and the electrification of the northern shore line to the northern shore, to Prague, Warsaw, Belgrade and in the future even to the southern states of the Balkans, the other, smaller capacity and in the same direction, trains that provide a purely similar quality service (IC+, CAF) contain carriages.
According to the government decision, the public procurement procedure must be started this year for the 39+10 trains, which will mean a total of more than 380 cars.
This means the replacement of more than two-thirds of our entire MÁV-Start IC long-distance fleet.