Szablyár Péter: Step by step - Our Budapest (Budapest, 2010)

Budapest's stair-shaped hillside trains: Margaret and Gellért, till death do them part

four competitors in the race, where a total prize money awarded was 6 thousand euros, crossed the finish line in this order: ist Gee Atherton (UK), 2nd Sam Blen- kinson (New Zealand), 3rd Filip Pole (Slovakia), 4th Dan Atherton (UK).

Budapest’s stair-shaped hillside trains:

Margaret and Gel lért, till death do them part

Catching the eye from the Pest side are the strange, stair-shaped, three-level twin vehicles running on wall-flanked tracks in a trough next to the entrance of the Tunnel under Castle Hill. They belong to the "Sikló", the funicular carrying passengers up to the Buda Castle. In a few decades after World War 11 the funicular disappeared during the drawn-out Castle reconstructions.

Construction work on the "Buda uphill rail line” was first undertaken in 1868 on the initiative of Ödön Széchenyi (Count István Széchenyi's son) according to designs made by Henrik Wolfahrt. The steam-driven, 35-horse-power "miracle" capable of carrying 960 passengers per hour in either direction was completed at record speed with■ The "Geliert" carriage at the lower itation

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