Buza Péter: Bridges of the Danube - Our Budapest (Budapest, 1999)

Railway bridge at the southern edge of the city

rentei tér, and the one at Boráros tér established a southern link. (The last one was never named officially nor nicknamed by the people.)

Not counting the semi-permanent Kossuth Bridge, Böske was in service for the longest period of time; it was towed ashore in 1949 only to be reassembled elsewhere in the country where it stood for several more years.

In the second half of the 19th century the previously independent and privately owned railway companies merged into a state railway. At this time the need arose for a railway bridge to establish a connection between the networks of the two parts of the country.

In 1872 the Board of Railway Development accepted the plan of a French company, Filleul-Brohy. An act was passed to start the construction in 1873, the year Pest, Buda and Óbuda were unified. The Railway Bridge was inaugurated in 1877 as the third permanent bridge over the Danube. From 1910 to 1913 it was rebuilt practically from the ground up and broadened through the northward extension of the piers.

At the end of World War II this bridge was also destroyed. Its rebuilding was first restricted to one track. The restoration of the other track and the entire bridge was completed by 1953.

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