Ganz test track on Óbuda Island

Ganz test route Budapest
Test vehicle for the electrification of the Veltlinbahn on the test route
Route length:	1.5 km
Gauge :	1435 mm ( standard gauge )
Power system :	3000 V  ∆

The Ganz test section on the Alt-Ofener Danube Island was a 1.5 km long railway line laid out by the company Ganz on the Óbudai-sziget Alt-Ofener Danube Island ⊙ in Budapest . It was used to test the three-phase drive for railway vehicles and was created in 1899 under the direction of Kálmán Kandó , the company's chief engineer at the time. The two-pole contact line was operated with three-phase alternating current with a voltage of 3000 V. The results of the trial operation were so favorable that the whole orders for the introduction of the electric plant on the industrial railway of Wöllersdorfer works and the Valtelina was in Italy.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ E 360 Trifase Historisches etc. Retrieved on November 9, 2019 .