The Rail Revolution That Never Was

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Babe wake up the conductor is ranting about his home country again

[bananenwar]

No pods = no innovation.
Also no fancy animated video, it was doomed from the start.

[dogeboi]

Hungary realized they were about to do something good and efficient, so they were like "hold on, hold on, that's very un-hungarian of us, lets fuck it up"

[renard_the_one]

Fun fact, my dad used to work during the 90's and 00's in Budapest-Nyugati, and someone finding themselves sober on a monday morning was imposibble because im not joking EVERYONE WAS A FUCKING ALCOHOLIC

[AbsoluteAmoeba]

The words “Hungary” and “Revolution” are generally not something people would associate with trains… until now!

[istimagyar]

In Hungary the goverment won't spend money on railway, because it's "too expensive", even though they spend far more on highways and media propaganda. The lack of funding got so bad, that we still use 47 years old beaters.

[TsukiShimizu]

Austrian here - yes, the Railjets are damn nice, but the interior can be a bit dark, and there is one dark horse with our pinnacle of current rail transportation - it's called 'the german corner'. As soon as any train passes over the border it's magically hit with at least 10 minutes delay. Or 100 minutes, you never know with anything that touches the DB rails.

[farson]

Using 'cutting edge european rail' and Germany in the same sentence is kinda funny. I live in a Swiss city, bordering Germany and it's almost daily business to prevent german trains to enter the country because they are so late that they would disturb our timetable..

[lordcommissardavid]

As a Czech i have to say this: WE WILL NEVER STOP RENAMING THEM, TRY AND STOP US!

[person-ubcy]

Me and my friend were talking public transport which eventually flowed into trains and rail. Then a random guy walked up to us and said confidently “YoU KnOW WHaT CouNTrY HAs ThE bEsT trAiNs tHE UsA”

[dr.vegpunk]

„It was at this time that someone at the hungarian railways headquarters found themselves sober on a monday morning“
:D Someone missed the routine morning palinka shot. ;D

[TalesOfWar]

I really miss research for the sake of research. We had the British Rail Research Division in the UK up to the point of privatisation in the early 90's. We invented things like tilting trains, the Automatic Warning System as part of the signalling system and played with all manner of different class types just to see what did and didn't work. They just did stuff with no particular end goal in mind, just the idea of making something new and better.

This is where your really need public ownership of things like this, private companies just aren't (by and large) going to do something that can cost a bunch of money and time and have no direct return on investment.

[Eeo_Mii]

I saw green white and red and wondered "oh shit what the fuck did Italy do this time?" before realizing it was Orban all along.

[ateyygmd]

I love how Lázár János isn't willing to get the new Vectrons for MÁV because "ew Germany, Siemens bad and the west is falling"

[nikokolihno]

BE GONE orban, as a Pole I feel you, took 8 years for us

[lakelandbuzz]

"Without actially investing any significant funds into it."
I almost asked "where did the funds go then?" But then i remembered, oh yeah. Corruption.

[Pan_Schaboszczak]

Hungarian railways in the '90s: producing the best suburban railway set ever
Polish railways in the '90s: 💀

[geography_czek]

Czech here. The naming of train sets is a great idea in my opinion. Especially for non-train people from the marketing perspective. Because when you say "we ordered 10 new class 650 EMU´s" normal people have absolutely no idea what you are talking about. But when you say "We ordered new RegioPanters" then everybody knows.
And not only Czechia does this. For example Italy does something similar.
I am not saying the way we do it is the best. There are flaws like for example that the ComfortJet should have been named as RailJet (2). But at the end, the trains and units would have receive nicknames either way. Just not officially.

[tatrankaska]

Don't touch the Regio Mouse. That name is absolutely great for 810's, the cutest and most wholesome trains ever constructed in the universe.

MOTORÁČÉÉÉÉÉK

[erikziak]

Meanwhile Slovakia: I am so happy nobody is talking about my Railway.