Index – Culture – Cakes on the left? Cakes on the right?
The Omnibus appeared on the streets of Pest in 1832. The start of the caravans is considered to be the beginning of public transport in Budapest. For three decades, this dominated traffic in Budapest. He walked from downtown to the City Park, it was a means of transportation for the lower middle class who wanted to have fun, the omnibus had to be warned and stopped when they spoke.
You only had to wait 35 years for the horse train from here. From the settlement, a horse-drawn carriage transported passengers in the united Pest-Buda between Kálvin tér and Újpest. The first public transport companies were private companies. The Pest Road Railway Company launched several other lines after the horse-drawn railway to Újpest. Later, dozens of private contractors operated tram lines.
The idea of establishing the shuttle was raised by Count Ödön Széchenyi and obtained the support of the City of Buda, the Ministry of the Interior and Transport, and the “Imperial and Royal Command Headquarters” in Buda. The contract was signed on May 25, 1868, and the plans were drawn up by Ödön Juraszek and Henrik Wohlfarth. The Budavár cable car (Budai Hegypálya Rt.) Started its operation on the mainland on the mainland in March 1870, when it was still powered by steam. The wagons, made in the Spiering factory in Vienna, had a special design: with three cabs rising step by side, this solution became unique in the world and became the largest technical landmark of the funicular.
Nikolaus Riggenbach, the designer of the first European cog railway, visited Budapest in 1870. His idea was to connect Svábhegy, which was transformed into a holiday resort in the 1850s, with the capital by a mountain track. In 1873, representatives of the Internationale Gesellschaft für Bergbahnen in Basel applied for the construction of a cog railway to Swabia, which was agreed upon later that year. The cogwheel began its first trip in Europe on June 24, 1874. As a result of the successful operation, the line was extended, and in 1890 traffic to Széchenyi Hill began.
On May 2, 1896, the first electric underground railway on the European continent was launched. On the occasion of the opening of the “Millennium Exhibition”, József Ferencz, who was staying in Budapest, visited the underground railway on May 8, 1896. In a “royal carriage” he traveled from the Gizella Square terminal to the Zoo. The ruler “most graciously” allowed the railway to be “named” after him. This is how the railway got the company name Ferenc József Underground Electric Railway Rt. (FJFVV). The idea for the underground railway came from Mór Balázs, and the plans were developed with the help of Siemens and Halske. The construction of the underground railway takes only 22 months.
The first bus service started in Budapest in 1915. The buses traveled from the corner of Aréna (Dózsa György) út to Nagy János (Benczúr) utca through Andrássy út to the Emperor Vilmos (Bajcsy-Zsilinszky) road.
At 8 pm on November 8, public transport was stopped to determine the necessary technical modifications, and on November 9, 1941, from 3 am, right-hand road traffic came into force everywhere in Hungary. Of course, right-hand drive cars could still drive, but only left-hand drive cars could get a new license.
Twenty-five years later, the lucky ones were able to mount and clean their own Trabies in front of the house. The others were left with the bus, the tram, the trolley.
Photo: MTI National Photo Gallery
Photo: László Kácsor / MTI National Photo Gallery
Photo: MTI National Photo Gallery