Budapest’s Millenium Underground celebrating its 125th anniversary! – PHOTOS

This week, Hungary’s „yellow underground” is celebrating its 125th anniversary. The Millennium Underground Railway, built as the first underground on the European mainland, is also part of the UNESCO World Heritage list in Budapest.  

On 2nd May 1896, Budapest’s M1 metro embarked on its first journey in the dynamically developing metropolis – although it was only on a line of 4 kilometers at that time. The significant event took place in the year of the millennium (the thousandth anniversary of the arrival of the Magyars); as a result of which, Budapest’s small underground is also called the Millenium Underground.

The line had eleven stations at that time – nine underground and two overground – that ran underneath Andrássy Avenue, from Vörösmarty Square to City Park, and was able to carry 35,000 people a day – reported by Wikipedia.

The small underground was a pioneer of technical innovation of that age which left its trademark in the history of transport and technology to this day. The best evidence of this is that last year

the Millennium Underground Railway was chosen as the world’s most considerable technical engineer milestone by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.