Fully restored in original livery, and ready to work an enthusiast's charter train, M62 001 stands at Szolnok depot on 6 September 2002. From 1965 onwards nearly 2500 locomotives of this and similar types were built at Lugansk, now in Ukraine, for Hungary, Poland, the former Czechoslovakia and the former German Democratic Republic. There have been widespread withdrawals from service in recent years, and the type only sees significant usage in Hungary on freight trains. Many more were built for the former Soviet Union's home market, including double versions.
Fully restored in original livery, and ready to work an enthusiast's charter train, M62 001 stands at Szolnok depot on 6 September 2002. From 1965 onwards nearly 2500 locomotives of this and similar types were built at Lugansk, now in Ukraine, for Hungary, Poland, the former Czechoslovakia and the former German Democratic Republic. There have been widespread withdrawals from service in recent years, and the type only sees significant usage in Hungary on freight trains. Many more were built for the former Soviet Union's home market, including double versions.
6th September 2002
Hungary
European Railway Photographs by Paul Steane
M62 517, one of MÁV's M62s fitted with broad (1520mm) gauge bogies, is seen at Eperjeske (Záhony) on 30 April 2002. The locomotive is pulling a train through the ore transfer plant where loaded broad gauge wagons are emptied for later loading into standard (1435mm) gauge wagons.Previous | NextÁEV locomotive C50-409 stands with a one coach charter train at the end of the line at Marki erdö, the extreme south-eastern end of the Csömödér Forestry Railway.

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