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The Budapest Metro is the rapid transit system of the Hungarian capital Budapest. Opened in 1896, it is the world's second oldest electrified underground railway after the City and South London Railwa
Top: Örs vezér tere, terminus of metro line M2 Bottom: Metro line M4, a driverless metro line with real-time PIDS system at Kálvin tér, transfer station to metro line M3
Schlick train at Opera station
Budapest, M2 metró, Örs vezér tere, 42
Old surface alignment of Millennium Underground at Heroes' Square
Line 1 is the oldest line of the Budapest Metro, built from 1894 to 1896. It is known locally as "the small underground", while the M2, M3 and M4 are called "metró". It was the first electrified under
Budapest Metro
…planned stations were finished. Since 2014 the length of the entire metro system is 39.4 kilometers and it has 52 stations. Budapest's first line, Line 1, was completed in 1896. The M1 line became an IEEE Milestone due to the radically new innovations in its era: "Among the railway's innovative elements…
Original rolling stock in special service
Ganz MFAV car at Mexikói út
Completing the cut-and-cover construction
Line under construction at Oktogon