Budapest Metro (Földalatti)
Metro de Budapest (Földalatti)
- Date
- 2 de mayo de 1896 · confidence high
- Place
- Budapest, Hungary
- Credited to
- Siemens & Halske and the city of Budapest
- Field
- Movement
What it is
A 3.7 km electric underground line built shallow for the 1896 Millennium Exhibition, the first metro on the European continent. It opened on 2 May and still operates as Line 1 (M1).
London (1863) and Glasgow (late 1896) are other early metros; Budapest is cited as the continent's first.
What it led to
- later continental metros in Vienna, Paris and Berlin
- cut-and-cover stations and trenching on a large scale