Várnagy Zoltán: Urban Transportation - Our Budapest (Budapest, 1994)

the opening of the Kerepesi út-Cinkota link and, in 1888, the Filator Dam-Szentendre line opened. To this day, we can travel in these directions by suburban train, which indicates that these lines were built in the right places more than a hundred years ago.

Initially, cars were pulled by steam engines similar to those drawing railway carriages, and the suburban trains were in no way different from the passenger trains of the railways, which stopped everywhere on their jerky journeys. As contemporary custom would have it, each engine had its name (e.g. Budapest, Haraszti, Soroksár) just as ships had. Started by conductors blowing into

Hév (suburban) train from i889

Driving unit of an electric Hév (suburban) train

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