Budapest–Belgrade passenger launch slips beyond elections, key ETCS experts resign

Passenger services on Hungary’s section of the Budapest–Belgrade railway line will not begin before the April elections and may now slip into summer. Although the government said in its latest update on the politically sensitive project that the ETCS system was “operating flawlessly”, major testing phases will remain incomplete for “several weeks”. And in another blow, the state-backed rail company MÁV confirmed that two senior signalling experts working on the project have resigned in recent months.