Underdog
Okay, so there's a lot going on on this picture, let's break it down.
In the upper left corner in the distance there is a slight hint of the Pilis mountains, a bit closer below that the blocks of flats of Újpest are towering over the surroundings.
Focusing a bit closer, the big yard and chimney are part of the Istvántelek maintenance workshop, which used to be one of the most important base for the Hungarian State Railways. Nowadays mostly DMU-EMU carriages rest here for maintenance, and occasionally locomotives for smaller repairs.
Under the bridge you can see the usual S70 service, being a tad bit late due to the construction crew changing a junction a few stations up, only leaving one track left usable, seasoned with some railway interlocking problems.
And on the bridge ladies and gentlemen is the prototype Budapest S-Bahn, the brand new S76 service. At the moment it doesn't really serve much purpose, you could almost say it goes from nowhere to nowhere, the two endpoints being Rákos and Óbuda. In this current form it will probably remain the underdog competing with mostly crowded peaktime buses connecting Rákos to the circulation of Budapest, hopefully this is only the beginning and in the future the full potential of the so called "Ring railway" (Körvasút) will be recognized.
Anyway, for us railway fans it still serves as an interesting new gift, as apart from this service the Marcheggi bridge is only used once in a blue moon.
Underdog
Okay, so there's a lot going on on this picture, let's break it down.
In the upper left corner in the distance there is a slight hint of the Pilis mountains, a bit closer below that the blocks of flats of Újpest are towering over the surroundings.
Focusing a bit closer, the big yard and chimney are part of the Istvántelek maintenance workshop, which used to be one of the most important base for the Hungarian State Railways. Nowadays mostly DMU-EMU carriages rest here for maintenance, and occasionally locomotives for smaller repairs.
Under the bridge you can see the usual S70 service, being a tad bit late due to the construction crew changing a junction a few stations up, only leaving one track left usable, seasoned with some railway interlocking problems.
And on the bridge ladies and gentlemen is the prototype Budapest S-Bahn, the brand new S76 service. At the moment it doesn't really serve much purpose, you could almost say it goes from nowhere to nowhere, the two endpoints being Rákos and Óbuda. In this current form it will probably remain the underdog competing with mostly crowded peaktime buses connecting Rákos to the circulation of Budapest, hopefully this is only the beginning and in the future the full potential of the so called "Ring railway" (Körvasút) will be recognized.
Anyway, for us railway fans it still serves as an interesting new gift, as apart from this service the Marcheggi bridge is only used once in a blue moon.