Metro Line M1 (Budapest Metro)

Metro Line M1
Overview
StatusOperational
Line numberLine 1 ("Yellow metro")
Termini
Stations11
Service
TypeRapid transit
SystemBudapest Metro
Operator(s)BKK
Rolling stockGanz MFAV
History
Opened2 May 1896 (1896-05-02)
Technical
Line length4.4 km
Track gauge1,435 mm (4 ft 8+12 in)
Electrification550 V DC
Operating speed60 km/h
Route map

Line 1 (Officially: Millennium Underground Railway, Metro 1 or M1) is the oldest line of the Budapest Metro, built from 1894 to 1896. 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 May 1891. [1]

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.[2]

  1. ^ dailynewshungary.com/secrets-metro-1/
  2. ^ "BKK In Numbers". bkk.hu. Archived from the original on 30 June 2021. Retrieved 10 February 2021.

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