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Hungary, facts and history in brief
Budapest, facts and history in brief
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Excerpted from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Budapest Metro (Hungarian: Budapesti metró)
is the metro system in the Hungarian capital Budapest.
It consists of three lines, each marked with a number
and a separate colour.
Metro Line 4 is currently under construction and the
first section is to be put into operation in 2010.
Plans for Line 5 are also ready for implementation.
It is the second oldest underground metro system in
the world, and its iconic Line 1 (dating from 1896),
the first underground system in Europe,
is a World Heritage Site now.
Transit type: Electrified Metro Railway
Began operation: 1896, First underground system in Europe
System length: 31.7km
No. of lines: 3 (plus 1 under construction)
No. of stations: 40 (plus 12 under construction)
Daily ridership: 1.27 million (approximate)
Track gauge: 1,435 mm (4 ft 8˝ in)
Operator: BKV
Budapest Metro map
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Millennium Underground old phase at Heroes' Square
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"Stadiums" (Stadionok) station on the metro line 2
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Kõbánya-Kispest terminal on the line 3 |
Lajos Kossuth Square on metro line 2
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P.S.
- A film titled Kontroll
was made in Budapest Metro in 2003.
It was screened in Cannes and in the U.S.
- The movie Underworld (2003) also has scenes shot
in the Budapest Metro.
- The original New York City Subway entrances were
modeled after the Budapest Metro entrances.
- There is a game about budapest metro created
from realistic level data.
This is downloadable from
here.
For a more information about
Budapest Metro see Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This page was retrieved and condensed from
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budapest_Metro)
see Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, December 2007.
All text is available under the terms of the
GNU Free Documentation License
(see
Copyrights for details).
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Disclaimers
This information was correct in December 2007. E. & O.E.
The building of the new Metro 4 line seems to
be progressing well, across Budapest.
N.B. Some of these photos were taken at existing
Metro lines and stations.
You can click on these photos for an enlargement.
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