Line 1 (Budapest Metro)
Line number	Line 1 ("Yellow metro")
Technical
Line length	4.4 km
Track gauge	1435 mm
Electrification	550 V DC
Operating speed	60 km/h
Route map

Metro 1
Vörösmarty tér Deák Ferenc tér - M2, M3 tr. Bajcsy-Zsilinszky út Opera Oktogon Vörösmarty utca Kodály körönd Bajza utca Hősök tere Széchenyi fürdő Mexikói út

The Metro 1 (Officially: Millennium Underground Railway or M1) is the oldest line of Budapest Metro. It is the third-oldest underground line in the world, it was built from 1894 to 1896. In 2002, it was listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site^[1].

[edit] History

This is one of the 4 metro lines in Budapest. The original purpose of the first metro line was to facilitate the transport to Budapest City Park, although the capital always opposed any surface transport on Andrássy Avenue – this has since become one of the most elegant roads of Budapest, part of the World Heritage. The National Assembly accepted the metro plan in 1870 and the German firm Siemens & Halske AG was commissioned for the construction starting in 1894. It took 2000 workers using up-to-date machinery less than two years to complete it. This section was built entirely from the surface (with the cut-and-cover method). Completed by the deadline, it was inaugurated on May 2 1896, the year of the millennium (the thousandth anniversary of the arrival of the Magyars), by emperor Franz Joseph. One of these original cars is preserved at the Seashore Trolley Museum.

The train ran along Andrássy Avenue, from Vörösmarty Square (the centre) to City Park, in a northeast-southwest direction, but its terminus was the Zoo (this has since been replaced). It had eleven stations, nine underground and two overground. The length of the line was 3.7 km at that time; trains started in every two minutes. It was able to carry as many as 35,000 people a day (today 103,000 people travel on it on a workday).

• 1896: Gizella tér (today Vörösmarty tér) - Artézi fürdő (today Széchenyi fürdő)
• 1973: Széchenyi fürdő - Mexikói út

[edit] Gallery

Andrássy Avenue with the Millennium Underground (1896)

A train near the Hősök tere (before 1973)

Opera

[edit] References

v • d • e Budapest Metro Line 1 Vörösmarty tér – Deák Ferenc tér 2 3 – Bajcsy-Zsilinszky út – Opera – Oktogon – Vörösmarty utca – Kodály körönd – Bajza utca – Hősök tere – Széchenyi fürdő – Mexikói út Line 2 Déli pályaudvar – Moszkva tér – Batthyány tér – Kossuth Lajos tér – Deák Ferenc tér 1 3 – Astoria – Blaha Lujza tér – Keleti pályaudvar – Stadionok – Pillangó utca – Örs vezér tere Line 3 Kőbánya-Kispest – Határ út – Pöttyös utca – Ecseri út – Népliget – Nagyvárad tér – Klinikák – Ferenc körút – Kálvin tér – Ferenciek tere – Deák Ferenc tér 1 2 – Arany János utca – Nyugati pályaudvar – Lehel tér – Dózsa György út – Árpád híd – Forgách utca – Gyöngyösi utca – Újpest-Városkapu – Újpest-Központ Line 4 Under Construction Kelenföldi pályaudvar – Tétényi út – Bocskai út – Móricz Zsigmond körtér – Szent Gellért tér – Fővám tér – Kálvin tér – Rákóczi tér – Népszínház utca – Keleti pályaudvar See also: BKV - HÉV - VEKE

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