List of Hungarian (or used in Hungary) locomotives — The first railway line between Szolnok–Pest–Vác was built in Hungary in 1846. Steam locomotives have been used since then. Diesel and electric locomotives appeared in the first half of the 20th century.
Railway towing vehicles have often been renumbered or scrapped over the decades. (None of the many types survive.) The list below uses the 1911 to 2010 numbering system.
It is important to note that the list does not include all locomotives that have ever been used. The reason for this is that many narrow-gauge railways also existed (partly in Hungary), and there is a serious lack of data on the locomotives used there. The history of all narrow-gauge railways in Hungary has not yet been processed (2021).
Steam locomotives
Although the engineer brothers Gergely Nagy and Lajos Nagy made a working steam locomotive model, name „DERÜ” (in English serenity, conviviality) already in 1845–1847, they could not sell it later, and the production of large steam locomotives did not start from the type. (The model is now owned by the Hungarian Museum of Transport. In 1875, Ferenc Bognár added a mechanical vehicle.)[1] Hungarian steam locomotives were acquired from abroad (typically from Austrian factories) for a long time. Hungarian (MÁVAG) locomotive production did not start until the 1870s. Nevertheless, a significant number of foreign-produced locomotives still operate in the country.
Types discarded before the new 1911 numbering system
Picture
Serial number
Year of manufacture
Year of scrapping
Manufacturer
Quantity
Comment
MKpV Pest
1845
1865
Cockerill
4
Two of the series were called „PEST” and „BUDA”. This two were the first steams locomotive on the Hungarian lines. They were transported to Hungary in 1845 and (the „PEST”) set off on July 15, 1846.[2]
MKpV Debreczen
1842
1860
Mayer, Mülhausen
1
It is the earliest locomotive used in Hungary. It was previously purchased by the Austrian Northern State Railway and operated in the Austrian part.
MKpV Vácz
1846
1865
Cockerill
8
MKpV Béts
1846
1865
Lokomotivfabrik der StEG
1
MKpV Nádor és István
1846
1866
Norris, Wien
2
MKpV Czegléd
1847–1850
1876–1900
Lokomotivfabrik der StEG
14
MKpV Erős
1847
1879
Lokomotivfabrik der StEG
4
MKpV Nagy Körös, Villám és Csillag
1848–1854
1879–1913
Lokomotivfabrik der StEG, Wiener Neustädter Lokomotivfabrik
65 (?)
One of the most used type of steam locomotive from the first period.
Ib
1857–1858
?–1905
Lokomotivfabrik der StEG
15
llc
1859
before 1910
Lokomotivfabrik der StEG
10
llq (NStB Wyschrad)
1847
1873–after 1891
Krauss-Maffei
7
llq (NStB Ossegg)
1850
?–1910
Lokomotivfabrik der StEG
9
One of the most used type of steam locomotive from the first period.
llr (SöStB Bazin)
1851
1891–1897
Wiener Neustädter Lokomotivfabrik
4
llr (SöStB Marchegg)
1854
before 1891–1897
Lokomotivfabrik der StEG
10
lln
1892
1890s
Lokomotivfabrik der StEG
1
It has not been mass-produced.
TIVa
1862–1867
before 1891–1910s
Lokomotivfabrik der StEG
4
VIIa
1893–1894
after 1920
Lokomotivfabrik Floridsdorf
2
They went to Romania and used them there.
XIIIa
1880
before 1911
Atlas Locomotiv Work, Bristol
2
XIIa
1884–1886
after 1924
Krauss-Maffei
4
They went to Czech Republic and used them there.
XIIb
1884
after 1897
Maschinenfabrik Christian Hagans, Erfurt
2
XIIc
1865
after 1894
Lokomotivfabrik der StEG
3
XIIe
1870–1873
1911
Lokomotivfabrik der StEG
5
XIIf
1871–1872
before 1911
Lokomotivfabrik der StEG
2
Types that existed after the new numbering system in 1911
Picture
Serial number
Year of manufacture
Year of scrapping
Manufacturer
Quantity
Comment
10
1908
1952
MÁV Északi Főműhely
2
11 or 175
1910–1913
1939–1963
MÁVAG
31
12
1907
1924
MÁVAG
2
20
1881–1884
1920s
MÁVAG
27 (?)
1 locomotive is known to have been in use even in 1954.
22
1928–1940
no data available
MÁVAG
148
40
1908–1909
no data available
Lokomotivfabrik Floridsdorf
7
41
1896–1900
1962
Lokomotivfabrik Floridsdorf
4
91
1915
1997
Krauss-Maffei, Linz
1
Special type of steam locomotive without fire.
150
1880–1884
1915–1922
Lokomotivfabrik Floridsdorf
6
201
1900
1920s
Hanomag
c. 100 (1 in Hungary)
The type is used in many surrounding countries.
202
1900–1901
1930s–1940s
MÁVAG
2
203
1906–1908
1950
MÁVAG
24
220
1881–1905
1937–1952
MÁVAG
206
221
1883–1888
1920s
MÁVAG
40
222
1890–1904
1932–1951
MÁVAG, Lokomotivfabrik Floridsdorf, Wiener Neustädter Lokomotivfabrik, Lokomotivfabrik der StEG
95
223
1882–1891
1917–1957
Lokomotivfabrik der StEG
58
224
1898–1903
1930s–1952
MÁVAG, Lokomotivfabrik Floridsdorf, Wiener Neustädter Lokomotivfabrik, Lokomotivfabrik der StEG
58
225
1903–1907
1930s–1951
MÁVAG, Lokomotivfabrik Floridsdorf, Wiener Neustädter Lokomotivfabrik, Lokomotivfabrik der StEG
70
226
1882–1891
1930s–1950
Lokomotivfabrik Floridsdorf
20
227
1900–1902
1930s–1953
Lokomotivfabrik der StEG
16
236
1865–1867
after 1910s
Wiener Neustädter Lokomotivfabrik
7
237
1869–1872
1910s–1924
Krauss-Maffei
38
238
1869–1877
1910s–1934
Wiener Neustädter Lokomotivfabrik
58
239
1870–1872
after 1911
Karlsruhe
20
240
1872–1874
no data available
Wiener Neustädter Lokomotivfabrik
6
241
1886
1920s
MÁVAG
3
242
1936–1939
1961
MÁVAG
4
250
1865–1873
1909–1924
Lokomotivfabrik der StEG
almost 100
252
1862–1876
?–1913
Wiener Neustädter Lokomotivfabrik
29
253–254
1856–1859
1890–1915
Kaiser Ferdinands-Nordbahn
59
255
1859
after 1911
Wiener Neustädter Lokomotivfabrik
8
256
1860
after 1911
Wiener Neustädter Lokomotivfabrik
5
257
1868
?–1913
Krauss-Maffei
10
258
1868
after 1911
Wiener Neustädter Lokomotivfabrik
6
259
1874
1910s
Lokomotivfabrik der StEG
6
268
1863
1904–1913
Lokomotivfabrik der StEG
8
269
1856
1898–1912
Lokomotivfabrik der StEG
13
273
1891–1894
after 1946
Wiener Neustädter Lokomotivfabrik
3
274
1879
1927
Lokomotivfabrik der StEG
2
275
1928–1940
1980s (?)
MÁVAG
148
282
1883
after 1917
Hagans, Erfurt
2
283
1881
1921
Lokomotivfabrik Floridsdorf
2
284
1888–1894
1890s (?)–after 1945
MÁVAG
19
It is designed for a railway of local interest (HÉV).
289
1898
1933–1938
Weitzer János Gép-, Waggongyár és Vasöntöde Rt.
6
290
1882
1961
Krauss München
1
Narrow gauge locomotive.
291
1909
1961
Orenstein és Koppel Gépgyár
1
Narrow gauge locomotive.
301
1911–1914
1966–1968
MÁVAG
20
302
1910–1930
1962–1969
Lokomotivfabrik der StEG
53
303
1951
1962
MÁVAG
2
314
1878–1879
1911 után
MÁVAG
2
315
1917–1918
1966–1972
MÁVAG
18
318
1954
no data available
VEB Lokomotivbau Karl Marx
1
319
1953
no data available
VEB Lokomotivbau Karl Marx
1
320
1892
1930s
MÁVAG
9
321
1897–1901
1927–1963
MÁVAG
18
322
1908–1909
1920s–1960
MÁVAG
40
323
1907–1909
1960s
Lokomotivfabrik Floridsdorf
178
324
1909–1943
1938–1981
MÁVAG
905
325
1892–1907
1920s–1960
MÁVAG
282
One specimen remained as an industrial steamer and in 2017 was even used for industrial purposes at the Resavica Coal Mine.
326
1882–1912
1960–1979
MÁVAG
522
327
1912–1914
1960s–1970s
MÁVAG
140
328
1919–1922
1964–1972
MÁVAG
177
329
1908
1949–1963
Lokomotivfabrik der StEG
10
330
1895–1908
1930s–1962
Wiener Neustädter Lokomotivfabrik
322
331
1902–1903
1933–1953
Wiener Neustädter Lokomotivfabrik
7
332
1860–1872
?–1953
Lokomotivfabrik der StEG
225
One of the surviving specimens of the series, operating in Austria, is one of the oldest steam locomotives in operation in the world.
333
1884–1900
1940s
Lokomotivfabrik der StEG
73
334
1891–1902
1920s
Schweizerische Lokomotiv- und Maschinenfabrik
40
335
1869–1889
?–1961
Wiener Neustädter Lokomotivfabrik, MÁVAG
199 (?)
This was the (part) first Hungarian-made series of locomotives running on normal gauge. The first Hungarian-made steam locomotive was finally given the MÁV 335,001 (1873) track number during the subsequent conversions. After its scrapping, MÁV offered it to the Museum of Transport, but they refused the donation, citing a lack of space.[3][4]
336
1872
1920s
Wiener Neustädter Lokomotivfabrik
8
337
1872–1873
1920–1923
Lokomotivfabrik Floridsdorf
6
338
1874
no data available
Lokomotivfabrik der StEG
14
339
1890–1904
1930s–1964
Lokomotivfabrik der StEG
45
340
1877–1883
1932
Lokomotivfabrik der StEG
53
341
1882–1883
1950s
Wöhlert, Berlin
18
342
1915–1919
1972
MÁVAG
296
343
1903–1920
1930s–1950s
Lokomotivfabrik Floridsdorf
262
350
1882−1892
1927–1961
Lokomotivfabrik der StEG
62
351
1871–1891
no data available
Lokomotivfabrik Floridsdorf
58
355
1865–1869
1920s
Wiener Neustädter Lokomotivfabrik
10
356
1868
no data available
Lokomotivfabrik der StEG
9
357
1870
after 1911
Krauss-Maffei
6
358
1866–1876
1920s (?)
Lokomotivfabrik der StEG
102
359
1873
1923–1926
Wiener Neustädter Lokomotivfabrik
8
361
1884–1907
1930s–1950s
Lokomotivfabrik Floridsdorf
37
368
1856
1910s
Krauss-Maffei
18
369
1875−1886
1930s
Lokomotivfabrik der StEG
31
370
1898–1907
1950s
MÁVAG
139
373
1874
1920s
Mödlinger Lokomotivfabrik
6
374
1870–1898
no data available
Wiener Neustädter Lokomotivfabrik
c. 50
375
1907–1959
c. 1990s
MÁVAG
596
The locomotive with a track number of 375.1032, manufactured in 1959, was the last steam locomotive manufactured in Hungary – although steam locomotives were already phased out in 1984.
For used narrow gauge locomotives, see: kisvasut.hu
The list above nevertheless includes steam locomotives designed for narrow gauge.
Interesting
Several steam locomotives are still in use on the Banovic Coal Mine line (Bosnia and Herzegovina) today. Several of them may be made in Hungary.[5] In Bosnia and Herzegovina, several other steam locomotives are used, which may also be of Hungarian origin (or the type used in the list above).[6]
Preserved steam locomotives
Although not all types of diesel and electric locomotives (no longer in use today) have been preserved, most of them are visible specimens. This is not the case for steam locomotives used in Hungary. There were a number of types (see list above) that were not left to fend for themselves. Of the (approximately) 140 types at that time – according to József Soltész, a train expert at the Museum of Transport (2009) – „ten thousand steam locomotives ran in the country, and now one hundred and fifty of them have been preserved.” Of these, barely 25 are operational.[7]
^According to the source: „The first real steam locomotive in Hungary with a narrow gauge was the RESICZA with a track gauge of 948 mm, built in 1872 at the iron and machinery factory of the Austrian State Railway Company (StEG / ÁVT) in Resica. The vehicle is currently on display in the Resica railway open-air museum in Romania.” It is not clear from the source (mult-kor.hu) which type it belonged to in the list.
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