Re: The illuminated Budapest Christmas Tram
  Graham Lees

Who did the decorating? Clark Griswold (National Lampoon's Christmas
Vacation)?

You obviously don't have an electricity production problem in Hungary!

Cheers

Graham

Akos Varga wrote:
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>

> Budapest has always had a number of important places in the inner city

> illuminated. This year Liberty Bridge (Szabadság híd) and Elisabeth

> Bridge (Erzsébet híd) have joined the list, but that was not the end of

> new illuminations yet. BKV - the municipally-owned transit operator -

> launched a regular Christmas Tram service with a heritage tram for the

> first time ever, and they added a suprise: as seen on the two pictures

> attached to this message, the UV double-set running these special

> courses on route 2/2A was decorated with probably a few thousand LEDs. I

> haven't seen anything like this yet - the lights are so bright that the

> tram illuminates the objects around. The illuminated heritage service

> will run every evening until January 6, with the exception of December

> 24. I wonder if the lights will last that long :)

>

> Best wishes,

> Hamster

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