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The New Zealand Railways Magazine, Volume 9, Issue 11 (February 1, 1935)

Streamlined Railcars

Streamlined Railcars.

A feature of continental railway operation is the increasing employment of relatively light railcars in long-distance passenger services. In France the State Railways are introducing twin-coach railcars, equipped with heavy-oil engines, streamlined, and capable of accommodating 90 seated passengers. These cars carry engine fuel for journeys up to 800 miles and they will make the Paris-Marseilles, or similar long-distance through runs, at an average speed of roughly 63 m.p.h.

Between Vienna and Budapest, the Austrian and Hungarian State Railways are proposing to combine to operate fast through railcar services of quite a new type. Oil-engined railcars built by Ganz and Co., of Budapest, are to be employed in this international service, and a feature of the proposed arrangement is that Austrian train-crews will work through from Vienna to Budapest, and Hungarian crews through in the reverse direction. Customs formalities will presumably be conducted, either at the terminal points, or by a special travelling staff en route. An arrangement of this character would speed up working, and would be in line with what is already done in France and Belgium, where French locomotives and locomotive crews regularly work through to Brussels, while Belgian engines and engine-crews work through in the opposite direction.