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Hungaria () is a EuroCity train which runs between Budapest Keleti and Berlin Hauptbahnhof, currently operated by MÁV. It is numbered as ''EC 170-171'' and runs daily, mainly with MÁV owned rolling stocks. == History == Earlier numbering included ''EC 174-175'', ''IEx 74/75'' and ''Ex 154/155''. The Hungaria international express train is one of the oldest express trains still in operation. Its first run between Budapest and Berlin via Prague was on 29 May 1960 with a diesel locomotive. It was the first train in the former Czechoslovakia which reached a speed of 130 km/h. During the 1970s it ran as an express train between the capitals of Hungary and East Germany under train numbers ''Ex 154/155''. Electric locomotives were introduced in this period. The capacity of these locomotives just reached the necessary level. There were further improvements in the 1980s. MÁV planned to introduce a high level, international rail service with other railway companies of the Eastern Bloc. The Interexpress alliance was founded with the membership of the Czechoslovakian ČSD, Polish PKP, Hungarian and East German DR. The contract was signed in 1986, one year before the establishment of the Western European EuroCity network. In the timetable year of 1986 the Hungaria became an interexpress train with train numbers ''IEx 74/75''. At this time the train terminated in East Berlin, at Berlin-Lichtenberg station, the main railway station of the city. During the next two years it had direct rolling stocks to and from Vienna and in the summer period to Malmö. 〔(Die "InterExpress"-Züge der DR - Das EuroCity / EuroNight-System in Osteuropa ) 〕 During this period and usually on Hungarian territories it used the MÁV V63 locomotives. The Interexpress network was dissolved after the regime change in Eastern Europe, so Hungaria was operated out of this system’s scope. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Hungaria (train)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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