Abstract
The industrial water towers built by the railway companies at the end of the 19th century predated the first generation of municipal public supply towers in most towns of Hungary. This paper focuses on the town of Szolnok, the principal station on the Pest-Szolnok railway line. As the third railway track of the country, it was opened to public steam locomotive transportation in 1847. It was a water station where the locomotives´ tanks were refilled with water from an elevated reservoir. Although in a ramshackle state, one of Szolnok´s railway water towers still remains, awaiting a well-deserved renovation. This listed industrial monument bears an Intze Type I tank of which only a few have survived in the country. A photodocumentation presents a newly discovered, Intze Type II railway tower the vicissitudes of which are also traced through written documents. By the demolition of this latter one in the middle of the 20th century the era of historicism in the architecture of railway buildings has come to an end. New utilitarian railway water tower types of reinforced concrete were created throughout the country, an example of which was also constructed in Szolnok.
Highlights
Ued managing the heavy traffic; presumably the construction of the water house took place in the 1850s
The Tiszavidéki Railway Company started to set up a repair workshop for the vehicles in an area, which was at equal distance from both stations
In the historical résumé published on the occasion of the centenary of the company, a detailed report gives a vivid description of how the German troops demobilized the destroyed engine halls and plundered the machinery remains which had survived the saturation bombing of 1944
Summary
Ued managing the heavy traffic; presumably the construction of the water house took place in the 1850s. A service water tower completed the system “which had a cylindrical brick wall, and a riveted iron tank with timber sheathing. The pieces of information collected little by little and presented lead to the conclusion that both towers were of a special type, namely Intze-towers after the inventor’s name, who patented the riveted iron tank forms enclosed in numerous railway water towers built around the turn of the 20th century in Western Europe.
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