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The Budapest Metro (Hungarian: Budapesti metró, pronounced [ˈbudɒpɛʃti ˈmɛtroː]) is the rapid transit system in the Hungarian capital Budapest.Opened in 1896, it is the world's second oldest electrified underground railway after the City and South London Railway of 1890, now a part of London Underground, and the third oldest underground railway with multiple stations, after the ...
underground station 2 side platforms: 2 15, 115 City: Vigadó, Café Gerbeaud, Ministry of Finance, Pest Theatre, Váci street: 1: Deák Ferenc tér: 10: 3 May 1896 1955 (relocation) 30 Dec 1973 (renovation) Nov 1995 (renovation) cut-and-cover underground station 2 side platforms: 47, 48, 49 9, 16, 100E, 105, 210, 210B
Line 2 (officially: East-West Line, Metro 2 or M2, and unofficially: Red Line) is the second line of the Budapest Metro.The line runs east from Déli pályaudvar in north-central Buda under the Danube to the city center, from where it continues east following the route of Rákóczi út to its terminus at Örs vezér tere.
Hungary’s capital became one city in 1873, when Buda, on the western banks of the Danube, and Pest, on the east, united to become the second largest city in the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
It is known locally as "the small underground" ("a kisföldalatti"), while the M2, M3 and M4 are called "metró". It was the first underground on the European mainland, and the world's second oldest underground after the London Underground. It was finished by April 1896 and was inaugurated by the emperor of Austria-Hungary, Franz Joseph on 3 ...
Entrance to the museum, with Gizella tér tiling. Line 1 is the oldest of the metro lines in Budapest, having been in constant operation since 1896.The initial section ran between Gizella tér station (now Vörösmarty tér station) and Aréna út station (now Hősök tere station) and served an intermediate station under Deák Ferenc square.
A Budapest district is holding a two-week referendum on a possible ban on short-term rentals, which would be the first of its kind in one of Europe's most popular tourist destinations. Eurostat ...
BKV operates 33 city tram lines, including the Budapest Cog Railway that operates as tram line 60. The once-extensive network of tram tracks and the brown striped yellow trams were a characteristic of Budapest, but the network was curtailed under Communism owing to lack of funding. Line 4-6 is still the largest capacity tram-line in Europe. The ...