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

Veteran CIV-model, which has been in service for the lonqesi time

OF ITS KIND

tracks themselves stretched for 490 km, and were built on over 213 km. By the following year, however, only 421 km of track were in use. The poet László Benjámin wrote about the tram system in his poem “From Vadaskerti út to Kálvin tér”.

First on the 56 Then on the 63 I drag these blues with me Across this huge city.

Through Lőrinc, Kispest and Buda And Angyalföld on trams I ride Jerkily but steadily along Passing through half a life time.

Faces come and go as walls go by Of factories and schools and offices,

But what the route or what the tram here says Never changes, never promises.

First on the 56 Then on the 63 and on and on Whichever number... Doesn’t bother me.

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