Újpest, district center - Budapest, Ungarn

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GPS-Koordinaten: Breiten 47°33'40", Längengrad 19°5'24" (N47 33.67 - E19 5.4) Karte

The Town Hall of Újpest, with tram tracks in the foreground

Although at that time (and until 1950) Újpest was a standalone settlement separated from Budapest there were already tram tracks in front of the Town Hall since 1896. This tram line was the so-called "BÚR-railway", after the name of the Budapest-Újpest-Rákospalota Electric Railway ("BURV") transport company. The vehicles were made by the Hungarian Ganz factory, the style of the tram cars was quite similar to the also Ganz-made trams of Pozsony (today Bratislava, Slovakia) and Miskolc, which lines were started about the same time. Nowadays the yellow trams of the Line 12 and Line 14 of the Budapest Transport Company ("BKV Zrt.") can be seen at the Town Hall on the István Road.