I recently visited Budapest for a couple of days, mostly to take a gander at its public transport system.

Rather than go through my trip chronologically, like I did for my Japan trip, this time I'll go by mode of transport.

Trams

Budapest operates roughly five types of trams today:

1. the Ganz CSMG, a domestically-built articulated high-floor tram from the 1960s. Some trains were refurbished and are now called the KCSV-7, but I am not quite sure how to visually distinguish the two.

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Boso View Express, or BVE for short, is one of those train simulators that have been around for a very long time but never quite managed to establish themselves at the top of the food chain, at least not here in the west. But if you want to simulate Japanese railways, BVE is essentially the holy grail.

You can find a huge variety of routes and vehicles, all of them with appropriate train protection and signalling systems courtesy of a highly-flexible plugin interface, for absolutely no money a...