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

Horse tram around i870

track lines with passing places, but by 1870, the period we have figures for, traffic had become so busy that parallel tracks had to be built. At the same time the company opened its Rákospalota route and another running to the Municipal Slaughter House.

In Buda it was the entrepreneur József Szekrényessy who took out a licence in 1852 to build a tramway line between Császár (today Komjádi) Baths and Zugliget, but the route was not actually constructed until another contractor, the Buda Street Railway Company, realised

The Újpest terminus of the first horse tram line

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