Budapest HÉV
Sign in to saveAlso known as BHÉV, BKV-HÉV, MÁV-BEV, BEV, FHV, Budapest HEV, BHEV, BKV-HEV
BHÉV (Budapesti Helyiérdekű Vasút, "Budapest Railway of Local Interest") is a system of four commuter rail lines (Szentendre HÉV, Gödöllő HÉV, Csömör HÉV and Ráckeve HÉV) and rapid transit (Csepel HÉV and Békásmegyer HÉV (part of the Szentendre HÉV)) lines in and around Budapest, Hungary. The BHÉV operates on standard gauge ( ), and is electrified at 1100 V DC.
Key facts
- Public transit.name
- Budapesti Helyiérdekű Vasút (BHÉV)
- Public transit.image
- Budapest hev symbol.svg
- Public transit.imagesize
- 75px
- Public transit.image2
- HEV MXA csepel.jpg
- Public transit.imagesize2
- 250px
- Public transit.locale
- Budapest metropolitan area, Hungary
- Public transit.transit_type
- Commuter rail/rapid transit
- Public transit.lines
- 4 (+1 branch line)
- Public transit.stations
- 69
- Public transit.owner
- MÁV-HÉV Zrt. (public ownership)
- Public transit.operator
- MÁV-HÉV Zrt.
- Public transit.system_length
- 97.0 km
- Public transit.map_name
- BHÉV-lines
- Public transit.map_state
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BHÉV (Budapesti Helyiérdekű Vasút, "Budapest Railway of Local Interest") is a system of four commuter rail lines (Szentendre HÉV, Gödöllő HÉV, Csömör HÉV and Ráckeve HÉV) and rapid transit (Csepel HÉV and Békásmegyer HÉV (part of the Szentendre HÉV)) lines in and around Budapest, Hungary. The BHÉV operates on standard gauge ( ), and is electrified at 1100 V DC.
The BHÉV lines were constructed as branch lines of the Hungarian State Railways. Helyiérdekű vasút (HÉV), literally "railway of local interest", is a general term in Hungarian traffic. Therefore, like internationally with the term metro, the stations are marked only with H or HÉV, though this is not the full name of the system. The five BHÉV lines are operated by the public transport company MÁV-HÉV Zrt., a subsidiary of Hungarian State Railways. Inside Budapest, standard BKK tickets and passes are valid on the BHÉV. Outside Budapest, a separate ticket must be purchased.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Budapest HÉV” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.