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June 24, 2020 | Financial

MAV-Start withdraws battery-electric train tender

HUNGARY’s national passenger operator, MAV-Start, has withdrawn its call for tender for a framework contract to supply up to 50 battery-electric trains.

March 16, 2020 | Fleet

MÁV-Start introduces first Kiss EMU into passenger service

MÁV-Start introduced the first of 40 new six-car double-deck Kiss EMUs on the Budapest Nyugati - Cegléd - Szolnok line on March 15.

January 7, 2020 | Fleet

MÁV-Start signs contract for final Stadler Kiss EMUs

HUNGARIAN national passenger operator MÁV-Start and Stadler have signed a contract worth €313m for 21 additional Kiss EMUs, under a framework agreement signed in April 2017 for 40 double-deck EMUs.

August 15, 2019 | Fleet

Stadler Kiss EMU for MÁV-Start on test at Velim

DYNAMIC testing of the first Stadler class 815 Kiss double-deck EMU for Hungarian national passenger operator MÁV-Start is underway at the Velim test track in the Czech Republic.

April 18, 2019 | Fleet

MÁV-Start awards contract for Talent EMU overhaul

MÁV-Start, the passenger and traction subsidiary of Hungarian State Railways (MÁV) has signed a two-year contract with Austrian Federal Railways (ÖBB) and Hungarian rolling stock maintenance and manufacturing company MÁV Vagon for the mid-life overhaul of its fleet of 10 class 425 Talent EMUs.

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