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Title: The street railway review
Year: 1891 (1890s)
Authors: American Street Railway Association Street Railway Accountants' Association of America American Railway, Mechanical, and Electrical Association
Subjects: Street-railroads
Publisher: Chicago : Street Railway Review Pub. Co
Contributing Library: Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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IT Broadway, New York City. STREET RAILWAY REVIEW Vol. XIII SEPTEMBER 20, 1903 No. 9 Electric Railways of Budapest. Description of the Electric Iliderground and Surface Railways and Power Plant Construction in That City. BY FRANZ KOSTER. In no European city has the development of electric surface andunderground street railways been prosecuted with greater vigorthan in Budapest, the capital of Hungary, a progressive commercialcity of more than a half million inhabitants, lying on both sides ofthe Danube, one hundred and fifty miles east of Vienna, Pest, onthe east bank of the river, is the more modern citv and contains chains instead of cables; the llaviptzolianU bridge, named from anadjacent custom house; the Schvvurplatz bridge, from a court house;the Franz-Joseph bridge, with sub-surface trolley, and two r.iilwaybridges; a prodigality of bridges, it would seem, judged l)y llicstandard obtaining between New York and Brooklyn.The underground railway is for the most part under Andrassy
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ENOI.NK ItOOM OK IAl.KKY ST. rnWICI! IHHSl;, IH 1 i.\ IlOST. the (jrealer mflciKC, Buda U-inu the oUlcr in appearance, morepiclu^e^(;m■ and principally a cily ol residences. Here on July .io.1889, the firit electric railway in Ivumpe built in city streets wasopened to the public, and at the prc^erll lime there are in operationin the cily 125 miles of electric railways. Ho miles of overhead Irolley,mostly in the suburbs; 40 miles of sub-surface trolley and S milesof underground road. The cities are connected by seven bridges;Ihc Margaret Bridge, an immense structure wilh overhead trolley;the Keltcn or chain bridge, 1,240 fl. long, a suspension bridge wilh street and is in every way, exicpl as Id lenglb, niilablc. The kioskes,or entering slatiiins, are of great beanly ,iiid .ippiuprialeness, whilein Ihc subway itself ,111 ;i;ipe:il i- ni.ule Ici llie sen^e n( lie.nily aswell as to ulility. The suburban stations of the surface roads are also of well-sUwIieddesign and great beauty, and

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