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24-568: Line 1 runs northeast from the city center on the Pest side under Andrássy út to the Városliget , or City Park. Like Line 3 , it does not serve Buda . Its daily ridership is estimated at 80,000. Line 1 is the oldest of the metro lines in Budapest , having been in constant operation since 1896. The line was inaugurated on 2 May 1896, the year of the millennium (the thousandth anniversary of

48-454: Is a church next to ELTE university . Evangelical Church on Deák Square is an old Lutheran church on Deák Ferenc tér . Pilvax kávézó is a café with historical significance. Váci Street is the town's main shopping street full of shops, banks and also some travel agencies. Many tourists start sightseeing there. The Parliament building is the largest one in Hungary and serves as

72-631: Is occasionally used on special services. One of each of the metal and wood panelled cars, and one of the trailers, are exhibited in the Underground Railway Museum  [ hu ] , itself fashioned from the original Deák Ferenc tér station . Other cars have been preserved elsewhere, including one at the Seashore Trolley Museum at Kennebunkport in the US state of Maine . With the extension and reconstruction of

96-546: The Blue and Red lines meet the Millennium Underground Railway (yellow). There are several bus , tram and trolleybus lines in this area. 47°29′53″N 19°02′24″E  /  47.498°N 19.040°E  / 47.498; 19.040 Mexik%C3%B3i %C3%BAt metro station Mexikói út (lit. Mexican street) is the northern terminus of the yellow M1 (Millennium Underground) line of

120-564: The Budapest Metro . Located in the Zugló district of Pest , the station was opened on 30 December 1973 when the line was extended from the original terminus at Városliget (City Park) . Akin to all Millenium Underground line stations, Mexikói út has two side platforms, one serving each direction of travel. To the north of the station are a pair of sidings and the access to the line's depot, and arriving trains stop to set down passenger at

144-408: The Underground Railway Museum , with access from the new station concourse. During the past hundred years, none of the renovations touched the tunnel section under Andrássy út. As a result, the infrastructure of the tunnel (the masonry, the load-bearing steel structures, the water insulation, the railway tracks, the architecture of the stations) hadn’t changed at all or very little. From the middle of

168-412: The 1950s and in prepararation for the planned second line of the metro, the route of the line under Deák Ferenc square was diverted in order to ease the sharp curve that had been dictated by the original layout of the square. The diversion left an 80 metres (262 ft 6 in) long section of the original tunnel empty and walled off, a state it was left in for some twenty years. Between 1970 and 1973

192-508: The 1980s, they started to show their age, and the serious damage and wear and tear prompted the necessity and urgency of a reconstruction. Renovation works took place during a planned closure between 15 and 18 September 1995. As part of a new luxury development project at the Rákosrendező railway station, known as "Millenium City Center" or "Maxi-Dubai", the M1 line would be extended north from

216-473: The Hungarian subsidiary of Siemens and Halske . Cars 1 to 10 were panelled in sheet metal, whilst cars 11 to 19 were wood panelled, and No. 20 was a special design “Emperor’s Car”. Because of the low headroom available in the line's tunnels, the cars had an extremely low profile, and the operator had to squeeze into a very tight cab. The cars had drop centres for the doors a single pocket door on each side, and

240-466: The Városliget to a surface terminus at Artézi fürdő station (now Széchenyi fürdő station ). It had eleven stations, nine underground and two on the surface section through the park. The length of the line was 3.7 kilometres (2.3 mi) at that time; trains ran every two minutes. It was able to carry as many as 35,000 people a day (by contrast, today 103,000 people travel on it on a workday). In

264-559: The arrival of the Magyars ), by emperor Franz Joseph . The original name of the operator company was "Franz Joseph Underground Electric Railway Company" ( "Ferenc József Földalatti Villamos Vasút Rt." ). The original purpose of the first metro line was to facilitate transport to the Városliget (City Park) along the elegant Andrássy Avenue without building surface transport affecting the streetscape. The National Assembly accepted

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288-606: The center of the Hungarian lawmaking. Szabadság Square is in the center of the town surrounded by monuments and historic buildings. Hungarian State Opera House is one of the most precious historic buildings of the town hosting the Hungarian State Opera . The building was the host of the Hungarian ballet. Várhegy contains the Buda Castle and a lot of historic buildings around it. The three Budapest Metro lines converge at Ferenc Deák Square where

312-629: The central part of Budapest . It is more or less equivalent with the historic old town of Pest . The Inner City is situated on the east bank of the river Danube . Until 1949 it was the 4th district of the town. Since then it has largely comprised the 5th district and the 6th district . The border of the city from the east follows the line of the old city walls , which is the Small Boulevard ; its sections are Károly körút ( Charles Boulevard ), Múzeum körút ( Museum Boulevard ) and Vámház körút ( Vámház Boulevard ). The border from

336-443: The current terminus at Mexikói út to provide better transportation links to the new site. It would serve brand-new apartments, office buildings, commercial properties, and what János Lázár , Hungary's Minister of Construction and Investment, labeled "Budapest's largest and most modern public park." It would also include a renovation of the existing railway station as well as a new pedestrian & cycle path to make it easier to access

360-460: The line in the 1970s, new Ganz MFAV cars were built in Budapest by Ganz Works to replace the original rolling stock. These cars are eight-axle articulated vehicles . Each unit has 3 sections, each having 2 doors per side, with no internal connection between. The driver’s cabs are located above the end bogies and can only be entered from a small door on each side. The loading gauge constraints of

384-455: The line meant that all electrical subsystems are fitted above the articulations, between the separate passenger compartments. In total 23 cars were built, comprising two prototypes in 1971, 19 production cars in 1971 to 1973, and two further cars in 1987 although originally two more were to be purchased at this time. All are still in service. Inner City (Budapest) Inner City ( Hungarian : Belváros ; German : Innenstadt )

408-431: The line underwent an extension and reconstruction of some sections. The most significant was the extension to Mexikói út . This involved the closure of the surface alignment through the Városliget, including both Állatkert and Széchenyi fürdő surface stations. In its place a new underground alignment was adopted, passing below the Városliget and serving a new underground through station at Széchenyi fürdő. Állatkert station

432-613: The metro plan in 1870, and the local Hungarian subsidiary company of the Siemens & Halske AG was commissioned for the construction, starting in 1894. It took 2,000 workers using up-to-date machinery less than two years to complete. The underground part of this section was built entirely from the surface (with the cut-and-cover method). The line ran underneath Andrássy Avenue, from Gizella tér station (now Vörösmarty tér station ) to Aréna út station (now Hősök tere station ). From there it followed an indirect surface alignment through

456-419: The new development center. Due to the line’s small loading gauge, the line has used very small vehicles since its inception with low-floor passenger sections and high-floor cabs. The line has always been powered by overhead lines, possibly rigid. The voltage has variously been described as either 550 or 600 volts, but the exact voltage is unclear. The line opened with 20 electrically powered motor cars built by

480-447: The northbound platform, pull forward into one of the sidings to reverse, and then pick up passengers at the southbound platform. The line's depot lies at ground level to the east of the station, and is accessed by a ramped track from the underground station. The depot also has a track access to the city's tram network . The station provides onward connections with the following BKV services: This Budapest Metro-related article

504-414: The seats were above the trucks. The cars could reach a top speed of 17 miles per hour (27.4 km/h). As originally built, the motor cars ran singly. But in 1959 to 1960, 16 four-wheel control trailers were built to run with them and provide extra capacity. The cars, both motor and trailer, were retired from normal service by 1973. One of the original wood panelled cars is maintained in working order and

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528-574: The west is the river Danube itself. A colloquial definition of inner city (or city centre, both with lower case letters) also exists according to which the city centre of Budapest, in a broader sense, is bordered by the Grand Boulevard on Pest side of the city. In Buda (if it is also included), it is bordered by the continuation of Grand Boulevard by Margit körút (Margaret Boulevard) , Krisztina körút (Christina Boulevard) , Budaörsi út ( Budaörsi Street ) and Bocskai út (Bocskai Street). So

552-518: The wider area comprises the whole 5th district and some parts of the 6th , 7th , 8th , 9th , and the 13th districts on the Pest side, while also certain parts of the 1st. , 2nd , 11th , and the 12th. districts on the Buda side. Dunakorzó is a long esplanade along the east bank of the river with some of monuments. Belvárosi plábániatemplom is the oldest church of the town. Egyetemi templom

576-452: Was not replaced. At the same time Deák Ferenc tér station was rebuilt to connect with the M2 line, and the rolling stock was changed to Ganz MFAV multiple units , which still operate on the line, and the line’s left-hand traffic was changed into right-hand traffic. In line with the rebuilding of Deák Ferenc tér station, the section of tunnel abandoned some 20 years earlier was rebuilt to house

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