Zeidler Miklós: Sporting Spaces - Our Budapest (Budapest, 2000)

The sports complex of BKV Forward (Beszkárt) HAS CHANGED LITTLE SINCE 1929

2,400 (plus a gymnasium, a restaurant and offices underneath) was indeed impressive in its proportions. The company, which had considerable means at its disposal, could even afford to build and maintain further sports facilities all over the city beyond this high quality central complex. The prestige of the stadium remained untarnished after the war; it was here, for example, that the athletics events of another College World Championship were held in 1949. nationalisation, however, dealt a hard blow to the club; any serious development was out of the question, and even the preservation of the building put a severe strain on the budget. The centre is a real gem for those with an antiquarian interest, as the building has preserved the characteristic shape and atmosphere of stadia built in a bygone era.

Budapest Railwaymen’s Sports Club

(BVSC)

(No. 2 Szőnyi út, district XIV)

The BVSC sports complex lies squeezed between the Rákos shunting yard and the M3 motorway. The association received a plot of land on the premises of an “unused, neglected, weedy sand quarry” from the rail40