Budapest Trams Turn 125

On Nov. 28., 1887 the first electrical tram line was opened in Budapest, between jpest-Vroskapu and Klvin square, through Vci St. The track gauge of this first line was 1000 millimeters and electricity was supplied to the cars from below to avoid cables hanging across the street.
Initially, trams had no numbers but coloured circular signals instead, for example, a simple red, green, blue or black disk; a red disk with a vertical white stripe or a cross; a white disk with a green 8-pointed green star, etc. Around 1900, when the number of lines grew to 30, numbers were introduced. The most lines Budapest had was 66, between 1939 and 1944.
Today, with 31 lines cruising almost 196 km of track in service, the whole network in the city is one of the largest in the world, and an essential part of the Budapest public transport system.