Metro Line M2 (Budapest Metro)

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Metro Line M2
DC
Operating speed70 km/h[1]
Route map
Metro 2
Legend
 Déli pályaudvar
Hungarian State Railways
 Széll Kálmán tér
Batthyány tér
Danube
 Kossuth Lajos tér
Deák Ferenc tér
Astoria
Blaha Lujza tér
Keleti pályaudvar
Hungarian State Railways
 Puskás Ferenc Stadion
Pillangó utca
Örs vezér tere
Detailed track map
0
18
 Déli pályaudvar
Hungarian State Railways
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
Hungarian State Railways
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

Örs vezér tere
.

Prior to the 2014 opening of

Line 4, it was the only line that served Buda. Daily ridership is estimated at 350,000.[2]

History

The first plans for the second Budapest metro line were made in 1942, and the Council of Ministers authorised its construction in 1950.

Örs vezér tere, instead of Népstadion.[3] Operation started in 1970 with 3-car trains, expanded to 4-car trains soon after, and 5-car trains since 1972.[5]
A major reconstruction of the track and stations was undertaken between 2004 and 2008, with new trains arriving in 2010. The new trains went into service two years later, in September 2012, and by April 2013 the line was solely served by new trains.

On December 5, 2016, an accident occurred on the line which involved an AM5-M2 rolling stock. An incoming train collided with a waiting train at the Pillangó utca metro station. This was the first serious accident in the history of the Budapest metro. The accident did not result in a fatality, but according to the prosecution, a total of twenty-one were injured, five of whom were classified as serious.[6]

M2 runs in an east–west direction through the city, and it was the first metro line to cross the

Keleti pályaudvar
.

Sections[1] Opened Length Stations
Örs vezér tere
 1970 6.7 km (4.2 mi) 7
Deák Ferenc tér
 1972 3.6 km (2.2 mi) 4
Total 1972 10.3 km (6.4 mi) 11

Rolling stock

Time period Name
1970 – 2013 Metrovagonmash Ev, Ev1
1980 – 2013 Metrovagonmash 81-717.2/714.2
1998 – 2013 Metrovagonmash 81-717.2M/714.2M
2000 – 2013 Metrovagonmash EvA
2012 – present Alstom Metropolis AM5-M2

Stations and connections

Déli pályaudvar – Örs vezér tere
Travel Time
min:sec 		Station Travel Time
min:sec 		Connection Buildings / Monuments
0:00
Déli pályaudvar
 18:25 17, 56, 56A, 59, 59A, 59B, 61
21, 21A, 39, 102, 139, 140, 140A, 221
Regional buses
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, 149, 155, 156, 221, 222
Regional buses		 Post Palace Budapest, Városmajor
3:27
Batthyány tér
 15:12
19, 41
11, 39, 111
Batthyány tér

Batthyány tér Market Hall
4:55
Kossuth Lajos tér
 13:45 2, 2B, 23
70, 78
15
Ethnographic Museum
6:55
Deák Ferenc tér
 11:50
47, 48, 49
72
9, 16, 100E, 105, 178, 210, 210B, 216		 Deák Ferenc tér
Town Hall, Metro Museum (Földalatti Vasúti Múzeum), St. Stephen's Basilica
8:35
Astoria
 10:07 47, 48, 49
72, 74
5, 7, 8E, 9, 107, 108E, 110, 112, 133E		 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, 107, 108E, 110, 112, 133E, 217E
Boscolo Budapest Hotel
11:50
Keleti pályaudvar
 6:50
23, 24
73, 76, 78, 79, 80
5, 7, 7E, 8E, 20E, 30, 30A, 107, 108E, 110, 112, 133E, 230
Hungarian State Railways (MÁV)
Arena Plaza
14:35
Puskás Ferenc Stadion

♿		 4:07 1, 1M
75, 77, 80
95, 130, 195
Regional buses
Long-distance buses
Ferenc Puskás Stadium, László Papp Budapest Sports Arena, Kisstadion
16:25
Pillangó utca

♿		 2:10 10 Kincsem Park
19:25
Örs vezér tere
♿		 0:00
3, 62, 62A
80, 82, 82A
10, 31, 32, 44, 45, 67, 85, 85E, 97E, 131, 144, 161, 161A, 161E, 168E, 169E, 174, 176E, 231, 244, 276E, 277
Regional buses
Long-distance buses
Örs vezér tere

Árkád Budapest

Gallery

References

  1. ^ a b c Árpád Bodnár: A budapesti metró két évtizede ("Two decades of the Budapest Metro"), Városi Közlekedés, Year XXXI, Vol. 3, pp. 119-121, Budapest, 1991
  2. ^ "BKK In Numbers". bkk.hu. Retrieved 2021-02-10.
  3. ^ a b c d András Koós: A 2-es metróvonal infrastruktúrájának korszerűsítése ("Modernization of the Line 2"), Városi Közlekedés, Year XL, Vol. 2, pp. 85, Budapest, 2000
  4. ^ a b Ágnes Medveczky Kovácsyné: 25 éves a budapesti metró ("Budapest Metro is 25 years old"), BKV, Budapest, 1995
  5. ^ Botond Aba: 30 éves a budapesti metró ("Budapest Metro is 30 years old"), Városi Közlekedés, Year XL, Vol. 2, pp. 71, Budapest, 2000
  6. ^ "Prosecution for the December 2016 subway accident". ugyeszseg.hu (in Hungarian). 2020-01-20. Retrieved 2021-02-13.
  7. ISBN 978-963-03-9124-5
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