Line 2 (Budapest Metro)

Line 2
Overview
Type	Rapid transit
System	Budapest Metro
Status	Operational
Termini	Déli pályaudvar ; Örs vezér tere
Stations	11
Line number	Line 2 ("Red metro")
Operation
Opened	April 2, 1970
Operator(s)	BKV
Technical
Line length	10.3 km (6 mi) [1]
Track gauge	1,435 mm (4 ft 8 1⁄2 in)
Electrification	825 V DC
Operating speed	70 km/h [1]
Route map

Last updated April 18, 2019

Metro 2

Legend

Danube

Astoria

Puskás Ferenc Stadion

Pillangó utca

Örs vezér tere

Detailed track map

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18

Déli pályaudvar

HSR (MÁV)

1

16

Széll Kálmán tér

3

15

Batthyány tér

Danube

4

13

Kossuth Lajos tér

6

11

Deák Ferenc tér

9

10

Astoria

10

8

Blaha Lujza tér

11

6

Keleti pályaudvar

HSR (MÁV)

14

4

Puskás Ferenc Stadion

15

2

Pillangó utca

18

0

Örs vezér tere

Line 2 (officially: East-West Line, Metro 2 or M2, and unofficially: Red Line) is the second line of the Budapest Metro. The line runs east from Déli pályaudvar in north-central Buda under the Danube to the city center, from where it continues east following the route of Rákóczi út to its terminus at Örs vezér tere.

The Budapest Metro is the rapid transit system in the Hungarian capital Budapest. It is the oldest electrified underground railway system on the European continent, and the third-oldest electrically operated underground railway in the world, predated by the 1890 City & South London Railway and the Liverpool Overhead Railway in 1893-96. Its iconic Line 1 was completed in 1896.

Déli pályaudvar is the western terminus of the M2 (East-West) line of the Budapest Metro. It serves the Déli Railway Station and its vicinity.

The Danube is Europe's second longest river, after the Volga. It is located in Central and Eastern Europe.

History

The first plans for the present-day two lines were made in 1942, and the Council of Ministers' decree enacted its building in 1950.^[2] Line 2 was originally planned to connect two major railway stations, Keleti (Eastern) and Déli (Southern) pályaudvar. They wanted to complete the first section by 1954 between Deák Ferenc tér and Népstadion (today Puskás Ferenc Stadion), the second section by 1955 between Déli pályaudvar and Deák Ferenc tér.^[3] The construction was ceased for financial and political reasons from 1954 till 1963,^[2] the ruling Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party decided to restart the construction on a party congress in 1959.^[3] It was finally opened with seven stations on April 2 (then a Communist holiday in Hungary) in 1970, and the second section in 1972.^[2] The eastern section was extended to Örs vezér tere, instead of Népstadion.^[2] Operation started in 1970 with 3 units, expanded to 4 units soon after. There are five unit-trains on Line 2 since 1972.^[4] A major reconstruction of the track and the stations was undertaken between 2004 and 2008, with new trains arriving in 2010.

Budapest Keleti railway station main international and inter-city railway terminal in Budapest, Hungary

Budapest Keleti (eastern) railway station is the main international and inter-city railway terminal in Budapest, Hungary.

Budapest-Déli Railway Terminal station building

Budapest-Déli station, known to locals and foreigners alike simply as the Déli is one of the three main railway stations in Budapest, Hungary.

Deák Ferenc tér is a transfer station on the M1, M2, and M3 lines of the Budapest Metro. It is located under the eponymous city square in central Budapest, the capital city of Hungary. Owing to its direct transfer connection between three out of the four metro lines Budapest has and its downtown location, it is one of the busiest stations in the system.

It runs in an east-west direction through the city, and it was the first metro line to cross the River Danube and reach Buda (the western part of Budapest).^[5] It has a transfer station with Line 1 and Line 3 at Deák Ferenc tér, and a transfer station for Line 4 at Keleti pályaudvar.

Keleti pályaudvar is a transfer station on M2 and M4 lines of the Budapest Metro.

Sections^[1]	Opened	Length	Stations
Deák Ferenc tér - Örs vezér tere	1970	6.7 km (4 mi)	7
Déli pályaudvar - Deák Ferenc tér	1972	3.6 km (2 mi)	4
Total	1972	10.3 km (6 mi)	11

Stations and connections

Travel Time min:sec	Station	Travel Time min:sec	Connection	Buildings / Monuments
Déli pályaudvar – Örs vezér tere
0:00	Déli pályaudvar	18:25	17, 56, 56A, 59, 59A, 59B, 61 21, 21A, 39, 102, 139, 140, 140A, 142 1256 Hungarian State Railways (MÁV)	Déli pályaudvar
1:40	Széll Kálmán tér	17:00	4, 6, 17, 56, 56A, 59, 59A, 59B, 61 5, 16, 16A, 21, 21A, 22, 22A, 39, 91, 102, 116, 128, 129, 139, 140, 140A, 142, 149, 155, 156, 222 782, 783, 784, 785, 786, 787, 789, 794, 795	Post Palace Budapest, Városmajor
3:27	Batthyány tér	15:12	19, 41 11, 39, 109, 111	Batthyány tér Batthyány tér Market Hall
4:55	Kossuth Lajos tér	13:45	2 70, 78 15, 115	Kossuth Lajos tér Hungarian Parliament Building, Ethnographic Museum
6:55	Deák Ferenc tér	11:50	47, 48, 49 9, 16, 100E, 105	Deák Ferenc tér Town Hall, Metro Museum (Földalatti Vasúti Múzeum), St. Stephen's Basilica
8:35	Astoria	10:07	47, 47B, 48, 49 74 5, 7, 8E, 9, 15, 108E, 110, 112, 115, 133E, 178	ELTE-Faculty of Humanities (BTK), Danubius Hotel Astoria, Dohány Street Synagogue
10:02	Blaha Lujza tér	8:40	4, 6, 28, 28A, 37, 37A, 62 74 5, 7, 7E, 8E, 99, 108E, 110, 112, 133E, 178, 217E	Boscolo Budapest Hotel
11:50	Keleti pályaudvar	6:50	24 73, 76, 78, 79, 80, 80A 5, 7, 7E, 8E, 20E, 30, 30A, 108E, 110, 112, 133E, 178, 230 Hungarian State Railways (MÁV)	Keleti pályaudvar Arena Plaza
14:35	Puskás Ferenc Stadion	4:07	1 75, 77, 80, 80A 95, 130, 195 396, 397, 398, 399, 485, 486, 2100, 2102, 2103, 2104, 2105, 2106, 2107, 2110, 2111, 2112, 2113, 2114 1020, 1021, 1024, 1031, 1032, 1034, 1035, 1037, 1039, 1040, 1045, 1046, 1049, 1050, 1052, 1054, 1057, 1059, 1060, 1061, 1063, 1067, 1068, 1069, 1070, 1071, 1075, 1076, 1077, 1078, 1520	Ferenc Puskás Stadium, László Papp Budapest Sports Arena, Kisstadion
16:25	Pillangó utca	2:10	100	Kincsem Park
19:25	Örs vezér tere	0:00	3, 62, 62A 80, 81, 82 31, 32, 44, 45, 67, 85, 85E, 97E, 100, 131, 144, 161, 161A, 168E, 169E, 174, 176E, 231, 244, 261E, 276E, 277 1002 484, 485, 486, 490, 505, 510, 2104, 2105, 2107, 2110 1040, 1049, 1070, 1075, 1077, 1078	Örs vezér tere Árkád Budapest

Gallery

Déli pályaudvar
Széll Kálmán tér
Széll Kálmán tér
Batthyány tér
Batthyány tér
Batthyány tér
Kossuth Lajos tér
Deák Ferenc tér
Deák Ferenc tér
Deák Ferenc tér
Deák Ferenc tér
Keleti pályaudvar
Keleti pályaudvar
Alstom Metropolis train at Keleti pályaudvar
Puskás Ferenc Stadion
Pillangó utca
Örs vezér tere
Örs vezér tere

Kossuth Lajos tér is a station on the M2 (East-West) line of the Budapest Metro. It is located south of Lajos Kossuth Square in Pest, immediately on the left bank of the Danube river.

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References

1 2 3 Árpád Bodnár: A budapesti metró két évtizede ("Two decades of the Budapest Metro"), Városi Közlekedés, Year XXXI, Vol. 3, pp. 119-121, Budapest, 1991
1 2 3 4 András Koós: A 2-es metróvonal infrastruktúrájának korszerűsítése ("Modernization of the Line 2"), Városi Közlekedés, Year XL, Vol. 2, pp. 85, Budapest, 2000
1 2 Ágnes Medveczky Kovácsyné: 25 éves a budapesti metró ("Budapest Metro is 25 years old"), BKV, Budapest, 1995
↑ Botond Aba: 30 éves a budapesti metró ("Budapest Metro is 30 years old"), Városi Közlekedés, Year XL, Vol. 2, pp. 71, Budapest, 2000
↑ Budapest City Atlas, Dimap-Szarvas, Budapest, 2011, ISBN 978-963-03-9124-5

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[Line_2a-1] 1 2 3 Árpád Bodnár: A budapesti metró két évtizede ("Two decades of the Budapest Metro"), Városi Közlekedés, Year XXXI, Vol. 3, pp. 119-121, Budapest, 1991

[Line_2b-2] 1 2 3 4 András Koós: A 2-es metróvonal infrastruktúrájának korszerűsítése ("Modernization of the Line 2"), Városi Közlekedés, Year XL, Vol. 2, pp. 85, Budapest, 2000

[Line_2c-3] 1 2 Ágnes Medveczky Kovácsyné: 25 éves a budapesti metró ("Budapest Metro is 25 years old"), BKV, Budapest, 1995

[4] Botond Aba: 30 éves a budapesti metró ("Budapest Metro is 30 years old"), Városi Közlekedés, Year XL, Vol. 2, pp. 71, Budapest, 2000

[5] Budapest City Atlas, Dimap-Szarvas, Budapest, 2011, ISBN 978-963-03-9124-5

v t e Budapest Metro
	Vörösmarty tér Deák Ferenc tér Bajcsy–Zsilinszky út Opera Oktogon Vörösmarty utca Kodály körönd Bajza utca Hősök tere Állatkert (until 1973) Széchenyi fürdő Mexikói út
	Örs vezér tere Pillangó utca Puskás Ferenc Stadion Keleti pályaudvar Blaha Lujza tér Astoria Deák Ferenc tér Kossuth Lajos tér Batthyány tér Széll Kálmán tér Déli pályaudvar
	Kőbánya–Kispest Határ út Pöttyös utca Ecseri út Népliget Nagyvárad tér Klinikák Corvin–negyed Kálvin tér Ferenciek tere Deák Ferenc tér Arany János utca Nyugati pályaudvar Lehel tér Dózsa György út Árpád híd Forgách utca Gyöngyösi utca Újpest–Városkapu Újpest–Központ
	Kelenföld vasútállomás Bikás park Újbuda–központ Móricz Zsigmond körtér Szent Gellért tér Fővám tér Kálvin tér Rákóczi tér II. János Pál pápa tér Keleti pályaudvar
See also: BKV HÉV VEKE

Line 2 (Budapest Metro)

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